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.
Levels of titanium dioxide that "systematically exceeded the acceptable exposure level" have been found in common face masks used for COVID-19, a study in leading journal Nature has found.
More than a dozen Tory MPs and peers have backed a court challenge against the imposition of face masks in school classrooms, saying there is insufficient evidence to support the policy.
Forcing pupils to wear facemasks in the classroom is dystopian and critics should not be smeared as Covid-deniers, children’s author Julia Donaldson has said.
Despite widespread reports that masks are to be required in classrooms as pupils return to schools across the country today, the updated Government guidance shows that this is only a recommendation, not a requirement.
Sadiq Khan has demanded that the Government re-impose mandatory face masks on public transport.
Jo Grady, head of the UCU, addressed a fringe at the Labour conference in which almost no one in the audience was masked. This is staggeringly hypocritical, given that the UCU is insisting on mask mandates across campus.
