The National Public Health Emergency Team has said that although the incidence of Covid-19 is exceptionally high, at about 20 times the levels seen in early December, it is starting to fall.
Updated / Friday, 15 Jan 2021
16:03 A statement of fact about what is the case for some situation is categorically different from a statement about how we ought to respond to it.
Opinion: people feel differently in their moral response to the same issue regardless of scientific facts
When it comes to Covid-19, science deals in empirically verifiable facts such as the genetic composition of the virus, its effects on human organs and how it is transmitted. Morality, on the other hand, deals with values and principles to guide how we should try to behave towards ourselves and others in response to a range of acts, issues and situations.