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Unvaccinated French Pupils Will Be Sent Home if Classmate Tests Positive for Covid
Children as young as 12 in France who have not been vaccinated against Covid will be booted out of school for seven days if a classmate tests positive for the virus while 'jabbed' pupils will be allowed to stay.
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Google Mobility Data Suggest That ‘Freedom Day’ Will Not Cause a Rebound in Cases
One explanation for plummeting case numbers is that the full effects of 'Freedom Day' have yet to appear in the data. However, the Google mobility index shows there was no sudden change in behaviour on July 19th.
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Tottenham Hotspur to Trial Vaccine Passports Ahead of New Premier League Season
Tottenham Hotspur has become the first Premier League club to announce they will be trialing vaccine passports ahead of the new season. A negative test will suffice though this is not included in plans for future passes.
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CDC U-Turns on Face Masks – Tells Vaccinated Americans to Put Coverings Back On
Less than three months after Joe Biden told vaccinated Americans they had reached the "finish line" as far as mask-wearing was concerned, the CDC has instructed them to put their masks back on when indoors.
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Hospitalisations and Deaths Can “Increase” Simply Due to Higher Transmission
56% of "COVID-19 patients" did not test positive until they were admitted to hospital. This highlights an important point: testing positive is not the same thing as having the *disease* COVID-19.
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News Round-Up
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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The Case for Vaccine Passports Is Strong, Says Michael Gove
The case for the introduction of vaccine passports across all U.K. nations "is strong", says Michael Gove, who would like to see vaccination checks at Premier League matches and "in [other] appropriate locations".
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Why It’s Not All About the Football
It's been suggested that the recent surge and drop-off in Covid infections can be pinned on the football. But why then do Scotland and England's curves in June look so different?
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Covid Cases Have Fallen Every Day For a Week
Covid cases across the U.K. have fallen every day for the past seven days. Today's figure of 23,511 is the lowest number recorded in a single day in the whole of July.
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“This is Still a Very Dangerous Disease,” Says Boris Johnson. But Neil Ferguson Disagrees: “The Equation has Fundamentally Changed”
Boris Johnson warned today against "premature conclusions" from falling cases, saying Covid is "still a very dangerous disease". Prof Neil Ferguson disagreed, however, saying we'll soon have the pandemic "behind us".
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