SIR – The United States may have succeeded in killing the Islamic State “planner” behind the Kabul airport attack, but the fact remains that, to all intents and purposes, it is abandoning Afghanistan to its fate.
Boris Johnson after his second Covid vaccination
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SIR – Prolonging current restrictions is now at odds with the data.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease that is said to spread in much the same way as influenza. Yet, despite lockdowns and precautions, deaths from influenza and pneumonia have been higher than Covid-19 since March.
Office for National Statistics weekly figures put deaths involving influenza and pneumonia at 1,171 (the underlying cause in 287 cases). Deaths involving Covid-19 were 151 (the underlying cause in 108 cases).
We should be making the most of the spring and summer, when these diseases are in natural remission.