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Updated: Apr 24 2021, 20:18 ET SOCIAL distancing should be scrapped in June to allow Brits to “take back control of their own lives”, leading scientists have said.  Twenty-two influential academics have signed an open letter calling for the end of all “low-level” restrictions by June 21 - as vaccination will slash Covid deaths by 98 per cent. �� 4 Brits have been enjoying lockdown freedom (Pictured is a group enjoying this month's sunny weather in Hyde Park)Credit: SWNS 4   The letter states that “a good society cannot be created by obsessive focus on a single cause of ill-h...

Leading scientists are calling on the Government to remove all coronavirus restrictions and allow people to ‘take back control of their own lives’ when the ‘roadmap’ to freedom ends in June. With real-world data showing vaccines reduce the risk of death by 98 per cent and hospitalisations by more than 80 per cent, the experts say Covid-19 is being turned into a ‘mild’ disease in Britain, akin to the flu. In an open letter to The Mail on Sunday, they criticise ‘confused and contradictory’ messages from Ministers and scientific advisers about the virus, which they say are exagge...

Around 1.3 million vulnerable people are yet to take up the offer of a Covid-19 jab, according to new estimates. The NHS in England said 19 out of 20 of those most at risk from the virus have now received their first dose of a vaccine. An estimated 27 million people in England are in the top nine priority groups for the vaccination – including over-50s, people deemed to be clinically extremely vulnerable, and health and social care workers. (PA Graphics) This means it is likely around 25.7 million have received their first Covid-19 jab. But it also suggests around 1.3 million have not yet b...

Around 1.3 million vulnerable people are yet to take up the offer of a Covid-19 jab, according to new estimates. The NHS in England said 19 out of 20 of those most at risk from the virus have now received their first dose of a vaccine. An estimated 27 million people in England are in the top nine priority groups for the vaccination – including over-50s, people deemed to be clinically extremely vulnerable, and health and social care workers. (PA Graphics) This means it is likely around 25.7 million have received their first Covid-19 jab. But it also suggests around 1.3 million have not yet b...

Robert Dingwall is a professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University and a member of several Government advisory groups These are extraordinary times, and not just because we are coming through the greatest national trauma since the Second World War. The vaccination programme is something close to a modern miracle. There is further good news in the startling success of the treatments we are pioneering for coronavirus patients. The UK is leading the world in these areas. Yet, as the past week has shown, the nation is facing another threat – one which is both unprecedented and deeply tr...