Event organisers of the Winter Olympics in China are facing a litany of complaints from athletes and countries on multiple fronts, especially over the COVID-19 isolation arrangements.
After two years of borders shut tight in support of a doomed Zero Covid goal, Australia is to welcome vaccinated tourists again by March, with the Government set to announce a reopening date as early as Monday.
Of 34 people deliberately infected with coronavirus, just 18 (53%) tested positive by PCR and 17 (50%) had symptomatic infection, confirming how much innate protection many have to the virus.
Holidaymakers will no longer have to take any Covid tests for travel abroad, Boris Johnson has said – but only if double-vaccinated. Why, when no one now pretends two doses provide any protection against Covid infection?
The UKHSA has announced that confirmatory PCR tests will no longer be available for those who test positive on an LFT test without symptoms, raising fears of staff shortages being exacerbated by false positives.
Covid testing rules are to be relaxed as part of efforts to shorten isolation periods and ease staffing shortages. But given mass testing has clearly failed to contain the virus why continue it at all?
The U.S. CDC has finally acknowledged that PCR tests produce false positives following infection and dropped the requirement to be tested at the end of self-isolation.
While UK reported infections have spiked this week, the positive rate is only slightly up, and South Africa has confirmed Omicron appears to be mild. Can we stop panicking yet?
The Government is considering scrapping free Covid tests to save billions of pounds, with free tests only to be given in high-risk settings such as care homes.
A member of the House of Lords has emailed the Daily Sceptic, pointing out that British passport-holders returning to the U.K. must take a PCR test, but not illegal migrants.
