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Updated: February 23, 2021, 7:49 pm People out socialising in Liverpool city centre before lockdown (Peter Byrne/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Hospitality venues are likely to take a “live and let live” attitude towards face coverings and social distancing when the measures are no longer compulsory, it has be...

Covid: Why goal is to live with the virus - not fight it . Vaccination and new treatments, ministers and their scientific advisers argue, will reduce the death rate and allow us to live with the virus rather than constantly trying to fight it. Why are they doing this? And is it even possible? Eradicating viruses is nigh on impossible Wiping Covid from the face of the Earth would, of course, be great given the death and destruction it has caused. But the only problem with that is that eradicati...

But other leading experts dismissed the latest “variant of concern” and insist we should not panic as intensive surge testing for the South African variant is being conducted in several parts of the country. Speaking in a personal capacity, Professor Robert Dingwall, a member of the Government’s New and Emerging Virus Threats Group – Nervtag – said: “We should not be panicking about these variants. “The sort of variants we will see are such a small drift from the original virus th...

Many Britons are breaking the rules in many different ways

Its time to free us from lockdown, Boris – we have suffered enough As the vaccine rollout continues, the pressure on the NHS is receding, but it’s the British people who are now at risk of being overwhelmed Boris Johnson visits a vaccination centre in Derby Credit: WPA Pool/Getty Images Europe Back at the beginning of January, the Prime Minister told us that – alas! – we must enter a third lockdown because the NHS was in danger of being overwhelmed again. Now, despite what you see on th...

Scientists first raised the alarm over new variants in December after the discovery of a Kent variant in September which was said to be 70 percent more transmissiwould ble by scientific modellers. This modelling was instrumental in the justification of a third lockdown as well as the cancellation of the lockdown break over Christmas. Since then others have been found, including South African and Brazilian. These have led to fears of greater transmissibility, lethality and possible resistance to...

Boris Johnson cannot afford to be overly cautious about lifting lockdown The PM must weigh up the Covid risk against the devastating costs of delay 5 February 2021 • 12:54pm In the first volume of his account of the Second World War, The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill noted: “It is a joke in Britain to say that the War Office is always preparing for the last war. But this is probably true of other departments.” It may be true of Boris Johnson too. For reports are emerging from Whiteh...

Exclusive: No case to delay school restart until March, say Government scientists Some advisers break rank to say latest evidence shows it would be safe to begin reopening of schools on Feb 22 4 February 2021 • 9:30pm Boris Johnson has said schools will not reopen before March 8 Credit: Stefan Rousseau-WPA Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe Boris Johnson is being "over-cautious" in keeping all schools closed until March 8 because there "really isnt a case" for refusing to open them earlier...

Leaders in Europe are recklessly endangering their own publics health by using self-serving point-scoring to attack Britains coronavirus vaccine rollout, UK health experts say. In Britain, such attacks risk resonating with ethnic minorities who are disproportionately at risk of dying from COVID-19 but who have been subject to disinformation from religious hardliners. But France, in particular, needs to be wary of undermining confidence given that surveys show it has the highest levels of vaccin...

Lockdown-sceptic MPs desperate for focus to shift to learning to live with Covid Original aim of measures was to protect vulnerable and NHS, but case numbers now seem to be an increasingly influential condition  3 February 2021 • 7:47pm At the current rate, all adults in the UK could be vaccinated before the end of May. But will that mean a full end to lockdown? When Sir Graham Brady and fellow Tory MPs appeared on a video conferencing call with a select group of scientists last week, a key ...