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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 been suggested. Attempts to enforce masks could lead to “petty friction” between staff and custome...

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 eradication has only been achieved with one virus before - smallpox in 1980.

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 that they do not change it in a radical way. “The changes we have seen and we will see are pretty mi...

Many Britons are breaking the rules in many different ways

It's 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 the TV news, that danger is receding fast. There is a slower fall in intensive care than across beds ...