News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Government is drawing up plans to repeal emergency coronavirus laws including the legal requirement to self-isolate. However, before you get too excited, this would be replaced by official guidance.
Self-isolation is to be cut to five days in England, as Ministers start to relax Covid rules at the glacial pace we've all become accustomed to these past two years.
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.
The Prime Minister is facing pressure to stave off an NHS staffing crisis by reducing the coronavirus self-isolation period to five days.
Despite being in the epicentre of Omicron, South Africa's 'SAGE' committee has told the Government to end all contact tracing and self-isolation of contacts for Covid because it is unnecessary and ineffective.
The Government predicts that roughly four times as many people will spend Christmas Day in self-isolation as opposed to last year.
From Tuesday, unvaccinated close contacts of Covid cases must self-isolate for 10 days, whereas the double jabbed can avoid this requirement if they test negative.
More than 300,000 arrivals from 'Amber List' countries are suspected to have broken quarantine rules between March and May – close to a third of all arrivals from these destinations in this time.
The U.K. car industry produced fewer cars last month than in any other July since 1956 thanks to problems in global supply chains and to staff shortages caused by the 'pingdemic'.
Students about to begin university need support to help make up for lost learning during school closures over the past year of lockdowns, as well as help addressing "socialisation issues", a university official has said.
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