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Johnson plans end of UK lockdown, with terrible loss of life
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is preparing to end the UK’s national lockdown, with the seven-day average daily death toll at over 1,200 and hospitalisations at over 38,000.
More than 29,000 people have died in just the last 28 days. One day after the government announced 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in Britain, Johnson was already announcing plans to sacrifice more lives on the altar of corporate profits.
Speaking to the House of Commons Wednesday, the prime minister announced the government would set out a “roadmap” to lifting public health restrictions in the week beginning February 22. It will “begin opening of schools on Monday 8 March.”
Network meeting of action committees for safe education discusses Europe-wide school strike
“No opening of schools and day-care centres before the pandemic is under control!” this is the call by the Network of Action Committees for Safe Education in a resolution unanimously adopted on Monday evening.
In introducing the resolution at an online meeting, Gregor Link of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) described the “war-like conditions” of the coronavirus pandemic in several European countries, where the B.1.1.7 strain of the virus is rapidly spreading. He cited the horrendous number of coronavirus deaths in Germany, stressing that 20,000 COVID patients have already died since the beginning of 2021 alone. “These people have not simply fallen victim to a medical phenomenon; a policy that puts profits before human lives killed them.”