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Sociology professor Robert Dingwall has insisted that not wearing a face mask is a 'moral' choice Nottingham Trent University academic sits on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation He said benefits 'have always been uncertain because quality of evidence in both directions is weak' Boris Johnson declared mask laws would be axed but admitted people would be encouraged to wear them
Boris Johnson angers doctors, Labour and unions by making mask wearing voluntary Updated: 5 Jul 2021, 22:40 BORIS Johnson triggered a furious row tonight by making mask wearing voluntary. The PM angered union leaders, Labour mayors and medics by saying it would be OK to go without a face covering in public indoor spaces from July 19. �� 6 Boris Johnson has triggered a furious row by making mask wearing voluntaryCredit: Louis Wood News Group Newspapers Ltd 6 Prof Chris Whitty says he will wear a covering if he was in a crowded place indoorsCredit: AFP He insisted it was time to “move awa...
BBC News For more than a year, personal freedoms have been curtailed to keep Covid at bay. That looks likely to change, with ministers proposing to lift many of the remaining restrictions in England on 19 July. The details, set out on Monday, have sparked intense debate. But what is unarguable is that the nature of the pandemic in the UK has changed - and with it so should many of our assumptions. Covid no longer the deadly virus it was The rollout of the vaccination programme has altered everything, reducing both the individual risk and the wider one to the health system.
Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid are reunited in Government after Matt Hancock's resignation A week is a long time in politics – and what a week it’s been. The dramatic resignation of Matt Hancock resulted in the return of former chancellor Sajid Javid to Government, sparking an immediate change of tone towards the easing of remaining lockdown measures. The build-up to the photo-finish Batley and Spen by-election also drove countless headlines. And had Labour not held the seat, having only recently lost Hartlepool, Keir Starmer would be facing a full-on leadership crisis. During periods of pol...
The link between infections and hospitalisations or deaths has been broken in the current wave of cases, analysis of Government figures shows. The Daily Mail has tracked the current third wave against last year’s second wave, starting at the same point in each cycle when daily infections were running at about 2,000. As the first graphic above shows, in both waves the seven-day rolling average rises to around 18,000 after 60 days. But the figures are very different for daily hospital admissions. Latest figures show they are at 263, compared to 1,095 at the same stage in the cycle last year. ...