News Round-Up

• “‘Mix and match’ plan for third vaccine likely to be offered to Britons” – Brits getting a booster jab this autumn may get a different brand from their original vaccine, according to the Mail On Sunday
• “Tony Blair calls for vaccinated people to be released from lockdown restrictions ” – The former Prime Ministers Institute for Global Change is calling for the vaccinated to be released from lockdown restrictions, a global system of health passes and for businesses to be given the right to admit only jabbed customers, the Sunday Telegraph reports
• “PM will use G7 to get world leaders to pledge to vaccinate the globe” – The U.K. Prime Minister will call on world leaders to agree a plan to end the pandemic by ensuring every person in the world has access to a jab within the next 18 months, according to the Mail On Sunday
• “Charities warn of the crushing toll of lockdown on children” – A new report shows that “thousands of children living in poverty have had their mental health ‘crushed’ by lockdowns leaving them ‘struggling to just get through the day'”, the Daily Mail reports
• “The restrictions are still paralysing Britain. We must back the jabs and reopen on time” – “Small businesses treat the remaining restrictions as a challenge to overcome,” writes Dan Hannan in the Sunday Telegraph, but “several state agencies and big charities, on the other hand, treat them as an excuse to do less”
• “True or not, the Wuhan lab leak story looks set to change the world” – “Whatever the origins of Covid, relations between China and the West are coming apart at the seams,” says the Telegraph‘s Jeremy Warner
• “We are grossly underestimating the crisis facing Britain’s children” – The damage lockdown has done to children’s education may “have irreversible tragic consequences extending so far into the future as to be immeasurable” writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph
• “Why relaxing freedoms on June 21st will not come close to overwhelming the NHS” – “Do we risk swamping the NHS with COVID-19 cases if the Government proceeds with Step 4 on time on June 21st?” asks Andrew Lillico in the Sunday Telegraph. Yes, he says, “we should be safe to proceed with Step 4 on schedule”
• “Why we should welcome the lab leak hypothesis” – “We should hope that COVID-19 was caused by human error,” writes Brett Weinstein in UnHerd. At least it “tells us how to make ourselves safer going forward”
• “Humza Yousaf’s Covid fake news” – “The Scottish Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf has been been spreading scare stories about children going to hospital after catching COVID-19,” says Spiked
• “Covid jab approved for 12-15 age group – but regulator won’t take responsibility” – The MHRA Chief Executive Dr June Raine has “lit the blue touch-paper and is standing well back” says Sally Beck in the Conservative Woman of the regulator’s approval of the Pfizer jab for 12-15 year-olds. “If things go wrong it will not be her responsibility”
• “Day 25,000 of Lockdown for Ivan Dennison (Covid Marshal Grade 2)” – The latest instalment of the life and times of Covid Marshal (Grade 2) by John Ellwood in the Conservative Woman
• “World Health Organisation Whistleblower” – A Planet Lockdown Interview with WHO whistle blower Astrid Stuckelberger providing insight into the inner workings of the organisation
• “Covid and Cultural Revolution, Will It Ever End?” – The Bournbrook contributors review the political and cultural developments of the past week in the latest episode of Week in Review
• “I fear that the EU’s new dystopian ‘digital identity wallet’ will be used to control and track people in the way China does” – Governments are “treating the crisis like an opportunity to foist onto citizens whatever weird dystopian fever dreams have been lurking in the back of their warped minds”, says Rachel Marsden in RT, responding to the EU’s plans for a digital ID wallet for citizens across the bloc
• “Anger on the streets of Porto as Britain shuts down free flow of travel” – Local tourism chiefs have slammed the “unfair” downgrading of Portugal from green to amber after the invasion of football fans, the Guardian reports
• “Officials close Calgary church, citing disregard of COVID-19 rules” – The Health Service in Alberta, Canada has physically closed Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary, preventing access to the building, due to its repeated violations of public health regulations, the Toronto Sun reports
• “Believe Your Own Eyes About Fauci E-Mails, Not the Fact Checkers” – Reading through Dr. Fauci’s emails is “revealing” says Jeffrey Tucker at RealClearMarkets, but there is an elephant in the room: “There is zero evidence that lockdowns actually worked to mitigate severe outcomes from the disease”
• “Judicial Watch Obtains Records Showing NIAID under Dr. Fauci Gave Wuhan Lab $826k for Bat Coronavirus Research From 2014 to 2019” – A Freedom of Information request filed by Judicial Watch has unearthed new documents detailing NIAID funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology 
• “Trump wanted to publicly grill Fauci on Wuhan lab funding – and bill China for pandemic” – Former President Trump wanted to haul Dr. Anthony Fauci in front of a presidential commission to give evidence about funding the Wuhan laboratory suspected of leaking COVID-19, the New York Post reports, and he was even ready to draw up a reparations bill to send to China
• “Indian states begin easing Covid lockdowns as case numbers decline” – Some of India’s states are crawling out of lockdown, Reuters reports, with cases at their lowest for over two months
• “U.S.-linked Chinese military scientist filed patent for COVID-19 vaccine just after contagion emerged” – Zhou Yusen, a military scientist for the People’s Liberation Army in China, filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine back in February last year, according to the New York Post, suggesting the vaccine was being studied before the pandemic became public. He has since “died under mysterious circumstances”
• “China’s Guangzhou city imposes more COVID-19 prevention measures” – Authorities in Guangzhou, China have ordered restaurants to stop offering dine-in services and called on gyms, pools, and other public venues to temporarily close in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, Reuters reports
• “China Allows Preschoolers to Get Emergency COVID-19 Vaccine” – China has given the go-ahead for emergency use of the Sinovac jab for children, Bloomberg reports, making the country the first to grant approval for those as young as three
• “Covid wave sweeps across south-east Asia with jabs in short supply” – The nations to Australia’s north are enduring their worst outbreaks of COVID-19 to date, according to the Sydney Morning Herald
• “Melbourne’s hospitality sector ‘broken’ by harsh lockdown” – 9News talks to a Melbourne restaurateur about the impact of the latest lockdown on the city’s hospitality industry
• “Those Fauci Emails” – Tom Woods’s take on Dr. Fauci’s emails in the latest episode of the Tom Woods Show
• “If you are sunbathing on cruise ship you have to wear a mask” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was pretty scathing recently about the public health bureaucracy, Dr. Fauci and the “fly by the seat of your pants guidance”. The National Review has the details