Ending mask-wearing rules and allowing people to make up their own minds would be a "recipe for confrontation", says Labour's Kate Green. She believes that masks and social distancing should continue beyond July 19th.
The continuation of social distancing and other restrictions means around four million fewer pints will be sold in pubs during the Euro 2020 final on Sunday as pubs across the country struggle to break even.
The Prime Minister has signed off plans to end the legal requirement to wear masks on July 19th, saying the link between COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations has been broken.
Lockdown sceptics are criticised for denying that reducing contact between people reduces transmission. However, this doesn't allow for the fact that reducing exposure does not greatly reduce infection risk.
Sajid Javid has "worsened" the prospect of all restrictions ending on July 19th by being ambiguous over whether guidelines on social distancing and testing will be lifted, says the Chairman of the Covid Recover Group.
40% of Brits say their favorite pubs are still closed because of social distancing. But the Government seems mainly to be focusing on introducing more measures, with vaccine passports in pubs seemingly back on the table.
Mask-wearing and social distancing should stay in place because it is "inevitable" that new Covid variants will be able to "break through the vaccine-related protection in a few people", says WHO official David Nabarro.
Hypocritical world leaders have been accused of breaking strict social distancing rules at the G7 summit in Cornwall. Indeed, not just breaking them, but of making no effort to pretend they're complying with them.
A reader has had his tickets for a June 26th cricket match cancelled "following discussions with Government and public health agencies". Is this confirmation that Freedom Day is to be delayed?
Professor Susan Michie, a leading member of SAGE and long-time member of the Communist Party of Britain, says that mask-wearing and social distancing should stay in place "forever" as parts of our daily routines.
