Coronavirus - is enough being done to contain it?

^Does this mean the end of home testing?

No, his post doesn't say that mate, it says ''free lateral flow testing is to stop'', which means people still have to do it, but will be charged instead.

I have a mission to Barnard Castle scheduled for next week.

Can anyone confirm Cummings is still in London, I don't want to meet him on the road

The leading scientist behind the Oxford vaccine says that Covid is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant. And that viruses like covid tended to become less virulent over time.

Tests of a new covid antiviral tablet, Molnupiravir have proved successful in reducing the time of having covid but also helping to stop transmission to people in your household. This tablet stops covid from making copies of itself.

It may be available at the end of the year after further tests.

Other companies are also making their own version of covid antiviral tablets.

A US internet cyber security firm has noticed that Wuhan doubled it's orders for PCR equipment in the 2nd half of 2019.
They have come to the conclusion that the outbreak of Covid was spreading around the population there as early as the summer of that year.

Earlier than previous been stated.

This is more evidence in the lab leak theory.

^If anything it is more to the lab leak theory and one now would probably be far more interested in how it got out of the lab.

It now begs the question : - shouldn't the Chinese have alerted the WHO a lot sooner than they did?

Tests were done in a few places and if I remember correctly, they said it existed in water samples in various parts of Europe back in 2019.
I doubt we'll ever get a definitive answer, because the Chinese aren't likely to ever admit fault, but at the same time the Americans will always point the finger at them given their relationship. The lab theory is the most believable, but still doesn't mean it's 100% true.

bit rich seeing the americans were funding the research at the lab involved

Apparently there was a large outbreak of swine fever in Wuhan at the time the surge in PCR Tests happened.

So it's either coincidence, or that escaped from the Lab too