Vaccine passports for domestic purposes are being axed in New Zealand, with mandates being removed in almost all industries, but not health and social care. Baby steps from the Toothy Tyrant.
A visit from an HSE official reveals that Covid health and safety 'guidance' is still being enforced on businesses, making a mockery of the Government's claim that we are learning to 'live with Covid'.
As the UK ends its remaining Covid travel rules and restrictions, here are other countries that got there first and to where UK citizens can now travel in the normal pre-pandemic way.
British holidaymakers will not be required to wear masks on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights following the Government's announcement that all Covid travel measures will end on Friday.
SAGE has been stood down in a clear sign that the Government believes the Covid crisis is over. Good to see the back of those guys, who had a special knack for using bad predictions to push us into unnecessary lockdowns.
Emergency powers brought in to tackle Covid will be consigned to history, Health Secretary Sajid Javid assured MPs today, saying he does not "envisage" ever having to bring back the Coronavirus Act.
Scotland's vaccine passport scheme will end on Monday and the rest of the country's Covid restrictions, including the mandating of face masks, will end on March 21st, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
All remaining domestic Covid restrictions, including the requirement to isolate when testing positive for the virus, are to be removed on Thursday, February 24th, Boris Johnson has announced in the House of Commons.
Boris Johnson will address MPs about the lifting of restrictions at 4:30pm. However, there was a glitch this morning owing to a reported standoff between Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid over the end of free testing.
Models are neither science nor data but a set of assumptions that generate their own tautological conclusions. More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class.
