News Round-Up
15 May 2024
Police in West Australia have been slammed after a photo emerged appearing to show officers conducting COVID-19 compliance checks in the middle of Catholic mass at a Perth church.
Sweden has announced the end of almost all restrictions as its Public Health Agency becomes the latest to declare COVID-19 "no longer a danger to society".
A group of scientists and academics has published a paper setting out why coercive vaccination policies are "counterproductive and harmful" in a significant intervention in the vaccine mandate debate.
Dr Oliver Robinson reviews the biomedical, social, psychological and ethical arguments for and against Covid vaccine passports and concludes they are far from justified.
Finland is to end all Covid restrictions, Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said. It follows Denmark's move to repeal all Covid laws and return to "life as we knew it", and comes despite deaths running high. Is panic over?
As Italy tightens the screws on the unvaccinated, many are seeking out the infected to contract Omicron and gain the all-important exemption. But it's the divisions in society that will last.
Truckers in Canada have formed what is believed to be the world's longest truck convoy as they protest against the Government's vaccine mandate for truckers and other excessive pandemic measures.
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?
Under France's vaccine passport, the vaccine is being treated as a mystical state that incorporates people into the collective body. Vaccination now is like a sacrament; through the vaccine we are joining the community.
The NHS vaccine mandate is likely to be "kicked down the road", a Whitehall source has told the Telegraph, amid demands by Conservative MPs for it to be scrapped entirely.
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