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The WHO has warned the Government against lifting Plan B restrictions, calling it "unwise" – but Tory MPs disagree, saying the Government would "be mad" to keep the mask mandate in place.

The Wellcome Trust has called for coronavirus to be “treated like the common cold”, as Israeli Prof Ehud Qimron slams the lockdown consensus as a failure based on myths and lies.

The coronavirus is "nowhere near" endemic, the World Health Organisation has said, while Pfizer's CEO says an Omicron vaccine is on its way and admits two doses no longer work. Some people don't want this to end.

The WHO has called on members of the public to consider cancelling their original Christmas plans in order to slow the spread of the Omicron variant, mentioning that “an event cancelled is better than a life cancelled”.

Examining the evidence gathered from South Africa, the World Health Organisation believes that the Omicron variant is mild, and has called on governments around the world to end the hysteria.

The WHO is embroiled in a new scandal: at least a third of its team investigating the origins of COVID-19, appointed last week, have conflicts of interest due to research links or previous statements about the disease.

The World Health Organisation and Unicef have said schools in Europe must do everything possible to remain open, in spite of the Delta variant being dominant in the region.

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.

G7 leaders discussed the origins of Covid on Saturday as the Chief of the WHO said that all hypotheses – including the lab leak theory – remain “open”.

Last year, many journalists dismissed the Covid lab-leak theory as conspiratorial nonsense. But if we are to avoid another pandemic, we must take the theory more seriously and ensure it is investigated, says Matt Ridley.