A number of European countries have banned, or are planning to ban, travel from the UK to prevent the spread of a more infectious coronavirus variant.
The Netherlands and Belgium have halted flights, with Italy to follow suit. Trains to Belgium are also suspended.
Ireland is expected to restrict flights and ferries from midnight (23:00 GMT) on Sunday. France and Germany are among others considering similar action.
The new variant has spread quickly in London and south-east England.
One rule for thee, and one rule for me. That sort of hypocrisy has been baked into human power relations, since, well, forever. As the Greek historian Thucydides wrote 2,500 years ago, “The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.”
Today, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are seeing power-hypocrisy once again, as politicians and plutocrats live one way, while telling everyone else to live another way.
There are few – if any – who have been unaffected by the pandemic. Lives have been taken and jobs lost.
People have been effectively trapped in their homes for weeks on end, weddings have been cancelled or curtailed, church services forced online and holidays at home and abroad abandoned, sometimes at an enormous cost. Far too many people have even been denied the chance to properly mourn their loved ones.
And then there are the businesses that have been forced to shut up shop as a direct result of the crisis. Many of the businesses that are now closed for good would have started the year full of hope for a bright future.
More than 2,300 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Ontario today as the province set a new record for the number of tests completed in a 24-hour period.
The province logged 2,316 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus today, down from the 2,357 confirmed cases on Saturday and the record 2,432 new infections reported on Dec. 17.
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The mandated muzzle on our faces is a symbol of more than mask-rule compliance.
It’s a reminder to keep one’s mouth closed!
Vaccines? You can’t ask questions about that. Why are the COVID-19 numbers rising despite the hardcore lockdown measures? Don’t dare ask.
Calgary police are being put in awkward positions in enforcing some COVID-19 restrictions among an often frustrated public, a senior officer said Friday.
Supt. Ryan Ayliffe said the arrest of a man at an outdoor skating rink Thursday after he allegedly failed to comply with a public health order’s physical distancing provision is only one example of officers facing unfamiliar dilemmas as the pandemic grinds on into its 10th month.
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It’s not yet clear what, if any, fines will result from a “freedom rally” in downtown Saskatoon Saturday afternoon.
More than 100 people gathered at Kiwanis Memorial Park to protest mask wearing and other restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
As jurisdictions across the country ponder tighter restrictions, an ER doctor in the Greater Toronto Area is stepping forward to call for a more balanced approach.
“The main message I want to get across is I want people to adhere to public health measures and try to do their part, but locking people up is not the answer,” says Dr. Gil Nimni, who works as an emergency physician in York Region, in an interview with the Sun.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines issued earlier this week say that employers can now bar employees from the workplace if they do not get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Developments overseas have been totally ignored by the American press. And yet, since Election Day, the media have hewed to the “HCQ Bad” narrative.
Since most Americans who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will have to wait until spring—and cases are climbing—it is imperative that we focus on therapies to keep people out of the hospital and that we revisit the media-engineered saga of hydroxychloroquine.
Italy’s Council of State last week took a step in the right direction when it reversed the country’s July 22 ban on the off-label use of hydroxychloroquine. They issued this reversal following an appeal from a group of doctors seeking to use the anti-malarial drug for early outpatient treatment of COVID-19.
Several videos posted online Saturday groups of mask-free Arizonans marching through several stores in protest of the COVID-related mandate
arizona walmart , no masks for them pic.twitter.com/O1UqWXdU8k
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Huge queues have been seen at stations and on the roads as desperate Londoners flee the capital ahead of Tier 4 misery from Sunday.
On Saturday afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that a third of England – including London and swathes of the home counties – will be thrust into a brutal ‘Tier 4’ lockdown from midnight.
The draconian bracket will see non-essential shops shut, and travel restrictions including a ‘stay at home’ order for Christmas Day itself – even though Mr Johnson insisted just days ago that it would be ‘inhuman’ to axe five-day festive ‘bubbles’.
Once you step into Klaudya’s Kloset, you are immediately transported into an atmosphere of beauty and uniqueness. Indeed, this boutique, located in Bolton, Ont., is jam-packed full of unique merchandise. It is Impulse-Buy Central…
According to a headline in The American Conservative, it was “The Greatest Scandal Of Our Lifetime.”
How could you not want to read on? What could it be, this epic scandal? Russian “collusion”? “Spygate”? The Mueller probe? Hunter Biden’s influence peddling? The stolen election? Chinese spies? Watergate?
Rather disappointingly, it was none of these. R.J. Quinn, the article’s author, had instead picked out as “the greatest scandal of our lifetime” the decision by governments across the world to shut down much of their economies as a prophylactic against the coronavirus. He believes—and I agree with him—that the shutdowns produced catastrophic effects for millions of people that made the cure worse than the disease whose spread it was meant to prevent.
The new mutant strain of Covid is spreading 70% faster than any other form of the virus, Boris Johnson has told the nation.
The prime minister said the strain could increase the UK’s R Rate by 0.4 as he announced brand new ‘tier four’ restrictions for London and the south-east this afternoon.
The festive bubble policy across tiers one, two and three has also been dramatically scaled back, with rules allowing three households to mix now restricted to Christmas Day only.
