Covid index - February 2022 - April 2022
No more graphs as the figures stopped being reported at weekends, so the graphs look very odd!
2 Mar 2022: Western Australia: Isolated state reopens two years into the pandemic
3 Mar 2022: Another life-saving Covid drug identified: anti-inflammatory baricitinib
4 Mar 2022: Covid: All rules in Wales could be axed on 28 March
7 Mar 2022: Scans reveal how Covid may change the brain
8 Mar 2022: There is no link between Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines and deaths that were recorded after people had their jabs.
Trial of four men plotting to kidnap Michigan's Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer over Covid rules she imposed.
A healthcare system revival in India?
9 Mar 2022: Covid: Austria suspends compulsory vaccination mandate
10 Mar 2022: Covid loan anti-fraud effort likened to Dad's Army, according to former Treasury minister
Test and Trace worker resigns after 'sex voicemail'
Isle of Man care home bans visitors as cases surge
With the Covid testing regime winding down, sewage is key to monitoring virus circulation
Children have been helping to create the air purifiers being used to prevent the spread of coronavirus in classrooms.
Covid in Scotland: Hospital patient numbers highest in 13 months
11 Mar 2022: Covid infections rising again across UK - ONS
15 Mar 2022: Wilko sorry for saying staff could work with Covid
People with Covid in England no longer legally required to self-isolate, but still recommended.
16 Mar 2022: New Zealand border to reopen from next month, PM Ardern says
Covid in Scotland: Mask rules will stay in force until April
17 Mar 2022: Audit Scotland says it's unable to determine where all of the nearly £5bn of Covid business funding went
Most people would still be willing to go on holiday abroad this year
Face masks divide US students
The latest Covid surge in Scotland may peak within the next fortnight, then decline as the virus runs out of people to infect.
18 Mar 2022: Covid travel restrictions have ended in the UK. Unvaccinated arrivals will no longer have to take tests.
Covid: Rise in UK infections driven by BA.2 Omicron variant
21 Mar 2022: Covid: Spring booster jab launches for over-75s and high risk in England
22 Mar 2022: 2,128 patients in Scottish hospitals with Covid higher than the previous peak in January 2021
Police send over 100 questionnaires on No 10 parties
23 Mar 2022: Covid: UK marks second anniversary of first national lockdown
25 Mar 2022: Coronavirus Act 2020, and all orders made under it, automatically lapsed. But I think this happened a month earlier.
UK Covid infections climb by a million in a week
Covid in Scotland: New record as one in 11 Scots had virus last week
Covid: Wales' mask law to end in shops, but not NHS
29 Mar 2022: Met Police to issue 20 'Partygate' fines
At one point this month, more than 200,000 pupils were off school in England
No restrictions means more restrictions, says shielder
30 Mar 2022: Don't forget families like us, Covid bereaved tell inquiry chief
Covid: Free parking for NHS hospital staff in England to end this week
Boris Johnson faces Labour's Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions over Partygate
End of Scottish face mask rules delayed until Easter
31 Mar 2022: Covid: Last day of free tests in England fuels concern
Covid index - February 2022 - April 2022
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