The WHO is complicit in China’s Winter Olympics smokescreen
The news that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation, is to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing is baffling on a number of…
China is being left behind as the rest of the world opens up
While much of the West edges closer to a full return to normality, China appears to be trapped. In the first few months of the Covid pandemic,…
Dr Tedros accused of sacrificing ‘legitimacy of WHO’ over decision to attend Winter Olympics
The director general of the World Health Organisation has been accused of “undermining the legitimacy and authority” of the institution, after it emerged he is set to…
Duck expert named as first Briton with deadly strain of H5 bird flu
Ellesha Gosling, Mr Gosling’s daughter-in-law, said he had first noticed that several of the ducks had become ill shortly before Christmas. Mrs Gosling, from Cranbrook, Devon, said:…
First case of human H5-type bird flu found in UK
Mike Tildesley, a professor in infectious disease modelling at the University of Warwick, said: “This is clearly going to be big news, but the key thing is…
Omicron coronavirus variant now in 89 countries – and cases are doubling within days, says WHO
The agency designated omicron a variant of concern on Nov 26, soon after it was first detected, and much is still not known about it, including the…
Covid showed the failure of central planning – the last thing we need is more of it
Prometheus is best known for giving humanity fire, but according to Aeschylus he also brought another gift that is even more important: blind hope. To favour entrepreneurs…
It’s a danger to the world that the precise origins of Covid-19 remain a mystery
It is almost exactly two years since the pandemic began. According to an official document seen by the South China Morning Post, the first retrospectively diagnosed case…