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The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over
The idea that that we must learn to live with high levels of Covid-19 has to be challenged, writes JOAN TWELVES of the Zero Covid steering committee

TO DESCRIBE the government’s Covid stragety as reckless would be being polite. It is currently averaging over 1,000 deaths a week, over 7,000 hospitalisations, and the highest number of Covid-19 infections in Europe with over 35,000 daily cases. 

Murderous is my non-polite description.

So are we seeing a return to normality? Only if you think those 1,000-plus deaths are normal. 

Vaccine-plus

No-one is safe until everyone is safe

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