The Test and Trace app – which has cost the taxpayer at least £35 million – is contacting fewer than half of its users who need to self-isolate, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The provisional rate of suicides for 2020 is lower than that of 2019 – but this may be due to delays to coroner inquests caused by Covid and lockdowns, meaning the real figure could be much higher, according to the ONS.
Compliance with Covid restrictions has fallen to levels seen last autumn, with a particular drop among those who have recently been vaccinated. 6 in 10 of those aged 55-75 say they are not completely following the rules.
Lockdown proponents often argue that case numbers always go down after a lockdown is imposed. However, there are several countries where a lockdown was imposed, but case numbers did not immediately decline.
So many other Covid vaccines will be available in the Netherlands that most of the 11 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine ordered by the Dutch Government will go unused, according to a Dutch health official.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Dominic Cummings's latest attack on Boris relies on a naive faith in lockdowns. In fact, Boris was right to resist calls for a 'circuit breaker' last autumn and right to push back against calls for a second lockdown.
