How Britain lives with covid-19 today
Cases are rising again, but the public have other worries
Covid-19 is still making headlines. On October 3rd Britain’s official covid inquiry began a fresh set of public hearings, looking at the government’s decision-making around interventions such as lockdowns. Entries released from the diary of Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, criticised the “flip-flopping”, “bipolar decision-making” and “chaos” of Boris Johnson’s government. What, though, of the disease itself?
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Still with us”
Britain October 7th 2023
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- Impressions of a first-time visitor to the Tory conference
- Rishi Sunak’s misguided attempt to woo irritated British drivers
- How Britain lives with covid-19 today
- Britain’s labour-market figures are less reliable than they were
- Britain’s probation service is in deep trouble
- Is Britain’s Labour Party a bunch of Tories, naifs or liars?
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