Brian Ramsden News Today

<strong>Letters: </strong>The decision to stop reporting the Covid growth rate is the latest in a series of attempts to limit the available information about the current spread, writes <strong>Dr Brian Ramsden</strong>, while <strong>Susan Treagus</strong> has been keeping a Covid diary

It’s on the shortlist for Oxford University Press’s word of the year. But what on earth does it signify?