The long-awaited June 21st reopening is to be delayed by at least four weeks because the Prime Minister has been convinced that the recent rise in the Delta variant makes reopening too risky.
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?
In June 2020 Steve Sieff created GreenBandRedBand.com as an alternative to lockdowns. A year on, some are finally trying it out, but Steve says it's time has passed: now it's time for freedom not fear.
The modellers of doom are at it again, with Neil Ferguson predicting a big summer wave based on the Indian variant being 60% more infectious. But if that is so, why is it not taking over everywhere?
A new study of over 50,000 employees of the healthcare system in Cleveland, Ohio, has found that previous infection gives very robust protection against re-infection and there is no gain to being vaccinated as well.
No vaccine passports (they're banned), no tests, no masks, no distancing – 22,000 people packed together for an outdoor live music event in Florida. Is the dithering UK Government paying attention?
SARS-CoV-2 has a genetic feature that has never been observed in natural SARS-like viruses, but which is the preferred feature for scientists engineering viruses. Is this the smoking gun for a gain-of-function lab leak?
Matt Hancock told MPs that 1% of Indian variant cases (126 of 12,383) were hospitalised. That compares to 2% with the British variant over the winter peak, suggesting the scariant is nothing to fear.
The fourth of our weekly round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
Ofcom has come under fire for labelling scepticism of official statistics as "misinformation" during the Covid crisis – and now we learn it has relied on biased "fact-checker" Full Fact to tell it what to suppress.
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