News Round-Up
7 May 2024
It's being reported that the Government could announce the introduction of new restrictions including work-from-home guidance and vaccine passports as early as today.
In the wake of the murder of six year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Dominic Raab and the Children's Commissioner for England have said that lockdown restrictions put vulnerable children at a greater risk of harm.
Approximately £47 billion was handed out through the Government's Covid Bounce Back Loan scheme to help businesses cope with lockdown restrictions, with £4.9 billion being lost to fraudsters.
Phil Magness was present at the conference that led to the Great Barrington Declaration. We asked him about lockdowns, focused protection, liberal illiberalism and what Donald Trump should have done last year.
Lord Sumption has written a blistering comment piece for the Telegraph, attacking the draconian measures being rolled out across continental Europe.
Research from Curtin University in Western Australia has unveiled that lockdown loneliness, and its negative health outcomes, has cost the country $1,565 AUD per socially isolated person.
Data from the National Child Measurement Programme has unveiled that childhood obesity rates soared over one year of repeated lockdowns and restrictions.
Bad news for our continental cousins: lockdowns are returning to Europe, with Holland announcing a three week lockdown starting tomorrow and Austria imposing a lockdown on the unvaccinated.
SAGE is predicting no winter Covid surge. But this could end up being a trap for ministers, as if the usual winter epidemic does occur it could become a reason to bump the Government into new restrictions.
Norwegians have been celebrating after all the country's remaining lockdown restrictions, including vaccine passports, were suddenly lifted on Saturday afternoon.
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