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The legacy of UK prime minister’s Boris Johnson’s initial approach to the pandemic can be measured in lives needlessly lost and ruined, says Michael Rosen in a letter to the Guardian.
As it is, the consequence of that late first lockdown and the decanting of patients from hospitals into care homes has produced a terrible toll, while many others of us bear the debilitations of that first round of infections.
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UK rapper AJ Tracey, who has had seven top 10 hits, has announced he is cancelling his “Flu Game” tour this year over “possible lockdowns and vaccine requirements”.
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