A school in Rotherham is continuing to prevent its students from enjoying normal school life, saying that mask-wearing out of the classroom and a ban on year groups mixing must carry on into the future.
The latest data from PHE shows vaccine effectiveness against Delta infection is just 15% in the over 50s. Protection against death is holding up, though seemingly not in the under-50s.
We've added a Stop Press to our story about the JCVI's announcement. A source within the vaccination programme informs us the Government intends to plough on with vaccinating healthy teens regardless.
A member of the House of Lords has emailed the Daily Sceptic, pointing out that British passport-holders returning to the U.K. must take a PCR test, but not illegal migrants.
A new RCT on mask efficacy was shared online recently. However, there's one big problem: it wasn't actually an RCT of mask-wearing, but rather of mask promotion campaigns. This makes interpreting the results difficult.
The Government is preparing to extend the Coronavirus Act, granting ministers 'emergency' powers, for a further six months, but recognises that a number of Tory MPs are "reluctant to support it".
A quarter of young U.K. adults. still haven't been vaccinated against Covid despite the constant efforts to "coax and cajole" them into getting 'jabbed'. The figure rises to one third in 54 local English authorities.
As pressure mounts on the JCVI to approve vaccinations for 12-15 year-olds and boosters, it seems no one has bothered to ask what the point is if they don't produce herd immunity.
