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He said: “Disturbing reports from countries still enforcing ‘Zero Covid’ show this dangerous fallacy for what it is. “Proud that the UK has led the world in learning to live with Covid. Freedom, with responsibility, should always be the default.” A zero covid strategy involves using public health measures to eliminate COVID-19 transmission completely or ....
DOMINIC LAWSON: Who did the BBC line up as its expert to pass judgment on the Prime Minister s announcement of measures to address the Omicron variant? Professor Susan Michie. ....
Industrial reporter LABOUR MPs Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon joined trade unionists, academics and activists on Saturday to demand a “Covid-zero” approach to suppressing the pandemic. They spoke at the virtual launch of the Zero Covid Campaign, a group advocating tougher policies aimed at eliminating, as opposed to managing, coronavirus. Short, sharp lockdowns alongside efficient test, trace and isolate policies have seen many south-east Asian and Pacific Rim countries keep deaths and economic disruption to a minimum. Former shadow home secretary Ms Abbott said: “We’re seeing 1,000 people die every day. We’ve almost become numb to those figures, but they represent lives snuffed out. ....
Industrial reporter WORKERS have been placed at significant and unnecessary risk by inadequate Covid health and safety policy, a leading trade unionist said on Saturday. Janet Newsham, chairwoman of the National Hazards campaign and a TUC tutor, argued that workers had been let down by the government, employers and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). She was speaking during the online launch of the Zero Covid Campaign, a group fighting for tougher policies to combat coronavirus. Ms Newsham said: “The pandemic didn’t cause the occupational health crisis, it exposed it. “Health and safety law enforcement and trade union organisations have been attacked and undermined by deregulatory neoliberal governments of all shades. ....