Dozens of universities ignore easing of Covid mask rules
Universities should not force students to wear masks as they have “sacrificed enough”, a minister has said as eleven Russell Group institutions keep rules in place. Michelle…
Generation CUB – how the events of Covid, Ukraine and Brexit will shape our teenagers’ lives forever
But not all of the problems facing young people during the pandemic can be explained in terms of mental health impacts – or assumed to have uniform…
Billions of PPE gloves bought by UK may have been made by firms using forced labour
Mr Marron told MPs that this includes 2.5 billion items which the NHS cannot use because they do not meet its standards, one billion which are not…
Britain’s Covid experts ‘abandoned their objectivity and misled with alarming models’
This week, modellers told the Commons science and technology select committee that many of the recent models were wrong because they had failed to factor in these…
Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid law may be unlawful
Nicola Sturgeon’s legislation making her emergency Covid powers permanent may be unlawful and open to challenge in the courts for breaching parents’ and pupils’ human rights, Scotland’s…
Can I travel to Dubai? Latest Covid rules and holiday advice
Dubai has announced that fully vaccinated travellers will no longer be required to show evidence of a recent negative PCR test when travelling to the city. Previously,…
How to get a Covid test for travel
Double-vaccinated travellers returning to England are no longer required to take any Covid tests, but must still fill in a passenger locator form in the three days before…
Covid modelling cannot accurately predict numbers, admits government expert
Greg Clark, the chairman of the committee, pointed out that policymakers had been “left in the lurch” by not having probabilities ascribed to the forecasts, which could…
Travel to Spain: latest Covid rules as UK proof of recovery accepted for unvaccinated arrivals
Holidays in Spain have become a lot easier for unvaccinated travellers who have recently recovered from Covid-19 and families. Spain’s Interior Ministry has announced that tourists who…
‘Covid toes’ may be nothing more than chilblains
The skin condition ‘Covid toes’ may be chilblains brought on by people wearing no socks in their homes during lockdowns and quarantine, scientists now believe. Experts were…
Bodies pile up in mortuaries and hospitals overflow as Hong Kong mulls lockdown
Bodies are piling up in Hong Kong’s mortuaries as the city grapples with its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. Officials announced on Monday that hospital and…
One per cent of primary school children affected by long Covid
The research also highlighted that many children experienced mental health problems during the pandemic, leading experts to warn that they should not be kept away from school…
Bodies pile up in hospitals and mortuaries overflowing as Hong Hong mulls China-style lockdown
Hong Kong has recorded 193,000 cases and 636 deaths since the end of December, when the current wave began. That compares to just 12,000 infections and 205…
Almost 1,000 people seek compensation over ‘severe disability from Covid vaccine’
Almost 1,000 people have applied for compensation after claiming to have been left severely disabled by the coronavirus vaccine. A government scheme established in 1979 provides payments…
How scientific ‘groupthink’ silenced those who disagreed with Covid lockdowns
“Following the science” became a mainstay mantra of the pandemic, frequently trotted-out to justify unpalatable policy decisions such as banning hugging or denying fathers the right to…
Covid modelling that prompted first UK lockdown based on ‘inaccurate’ case numbers
And both Imperial and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) were asked to renew modelling ahead of a Sage meeting on March 18 which…
We must amend the law to restore our basic rights
Lockdown was an extreme, crude, and untested experiment embarked upon with the minimum of thought, no advance planning and no exit route. The original decision was taken…
The ghosts of lockdown haunting our streets cannot disappear quickly enough
They are everywhere: the ghosts of lockdowns past. Circles on the floor telling you to stand here and not there; lines outside the supermarket where we once…
Covid modellers to explain to MPs why omicron predictions were so wrong
On Mar 2, the Commons science and technology committee will question senior members of the Government’s modelling groups, including Prof Graham Medley of the London School of…
The pandemic has left London a shadow of its former self
Instead the world locked down. We have lived through the pandemic in Islamabad where I cover Pakistan and Afghanistan for The Telegraph. Engrossed in our daily lives…
French finally seek approval for Covid jab after series of setbacks
France is finally seeking approval for its Covid vaccine after a series of setbacks that left Sanofi lagging behind its rivals. The French pharma giant, which has…
It’s a very British delusion that anything in life is genuinely free
The best things in life are free, they say. Perhaps. But reality dictates that we work to buy the crucial stuff that isn’t free, like wine, saucepans…
Travel to Portugal: latest Covid rules and holiday advice once you are there
Fully vaccinated travellers no longer need to take a Covid-19 test to travel to Portugal, reducing the hassle of preparing for your holiday. Meanwhile, health experts say…
January Covid deaths in England were around half the total on Government’s dashboard
The number of people dying due to Covid in England in January was around half the figure reported on the Government’s dashboard in the same period, data…
Data on Covid dashboard will no longer be published at weekends
Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday show that deaths in the two Home Nations were 3.1 per cent below the pre-pandemic five-year…