Tag: Lockdown cost

Sri Lanka's central bank said on Tuesday it had become "challenging and impossible" to repay external debt, blaming the "effects of the COVID-19 pandemic" for the drastic move.

Unions and scientists have denounced Boris Johnson's announcement that self-isolation rules will end, as a poll shows three quarters of the public want them to continue, half say forever, while just 17% support the move.

Lockdown restrictions had little to no effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths, a new meta-analysis of empirical studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics and Global Health has found.

The economy shrank by 1.6% in the first quarter, more than was previously thought, as ONS data shows that the real GDP level is now 8.8% lower than its pre-lockdown level.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who kept his state open all winter, has given a new interview where he talks of his regret in locking down and the challenges he faced reopening in the face of fierce opposition.

Lockdown has caused a "significant backlog of criminal cases" in Scotland which will not be cleared until at least 2025. The “downstream impacts” of this on community justice services and prisons are expected to be dire.

A new UN report finds lockdowns led to 239,000 maternal and child deaths in South Asia while the region suffered 186,000 Covid deaths. When will governments recognise that lockdowns do more harm than good?

If lockdowns don't save lives, then what are we left with? Just tens of thousands of deaths caused by reckless Government interventions. That's the real horror story of the past year.