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Scientists first raised the alarm over new variants in December after the discovery of a Kent variant in September which was said to be 70 percent more transmissiwould ble by scientific modellers. This modelling was instrumental in the justification of a third lockdown as well as the cancellation of the lockdown break over Christmas. Since then others have been found, including South African and Brazilian. These have led to fears of greater transmissibility, lethality and possible resistance to vaccines. A new border policy aims to prevent new variants being introduced, with hotels being prep...

Boris Johnson cannot afford to be overly cautious about lifting lockdown The PM must weigh up the Covid risk against the devastating costs of delay 5 February 2021 • 12:54pm In the first volume of his account of the Second World War, The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill noted: “It is a joke in Britain to say that the War Office is always preparing for the last war. But this is probably true of other departments.” It may be true of Boris Johnson too. For reports are emerging from Whitehall of the Prime Minister increasingly being the most cautious voice in the room when discussion tur...

Exclusive: 'No case' to delay school restart until March, say Government scientists Some advisers break rank to say latest evidence shows it would be safe to begin reopening of schools on Feb 22 4 February 2021 • 9:30pm Boris Johnson has said schools will not reopen before March 8 Credit: Stefan Rousseau-WPA Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe Boris Johnson is being "over-cautious" in keeping all schools closed until March 8 because there "really isn't a case" for refusing to open them earlier, some of the Government's own scientific advisers have said. The success of the vaccination pro...

Leaders in Europe are recklessly endangering their own public's health by using self-serving point-scoring to attack Britain's coronavirus vaccine rollout, UK health experts say. In Britain, such attacks risk resonating with ethnic minorities who are disproportionately at risk of dying from COVID-19 but who have been subject to disinformation from religious hardliners. But France, in particular, needs to be wary of undermining confidence given that surveys show it has the highest levels of vaccine hesitancy in Europe, according to experts responding to recent comments from President Emmanuel ...

Lockdown-sceptic MPs desperate for focus to shift to learning to live with Covid Original aim of measures was to protect vulnerable and NHS, but case numbers now seem to be an increasingly influential condition  3 February 2021 • 7:47pm At the current rate, all adults in the UK could be vaccinated before the end of May. But will that mean a full end to lockdown? When Sir Graham Brady and fellow Tory MPs appeared on a video conferencing call with a select group of scientists last week, a key theme, naturally, was how quickly Britain can safely move out of lockdown. Sir Graham, the chairman...