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Unions and scientists have denounced Boris Johnson's announcement that self-isolation rules will end, as a poll shows three quarters of the public want them to continue, half say forever, while just 17% support the move.
Boris Johnson announced today that all remaining Covid restrictions, including the legal requirement to isolate, will be scrapped this month, saying he expects to end the remaining restrictions a "full month early".
Finland is to end all Covid restrictions, Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said. It follows Denmark's move to repeal all Covid laws and return to "life as we knew it", and comes despite deaths running high. Is panic over?
Denmark is to lift all remaining pandemic restrictions in the next few days, despite rising reported infections, as Omicron hospital admissions and deaths remain stable – the first EU country to do so.
The Prime Minster has announced not only the end of Plan B measures from January 26th – including vaccine passports, work-from-home guidance and even face masks – but his intention to end the remaining measures as well.
The Government is drawing up plans to repeal emergency coronavirus laws including the legal requirement to self-isolate. However, before you get too excited, this would be replaced by official guidance.
We can abandon our masks in protest at the pointless Covid theatre that is now a persistent presence in our lives, but we can't escape it all.
According to the Mail on Sunday, ministers privately believe that falling Covid infection levels in the U.K. amount to a vindication of Boris Johnson’s decision to release lockdown restrictions early.
Releasing all Covid restrictions on 'Freedom Day' was the right thing to do despite outcry at the time, a study for Imperial College London led by 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson has found.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor says the widely trailed tsunami of hospitalisations has not only not yet arrived after 'Freedom Day', but that we seem to be on the downslope of the ‘third wave’.