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Love and Loss: The Pandemic Five Years On is an emotionally shattering re-examination of Covid

5/5 This excellent BBC documentary lays bare the political failures and human costs of an unprecedented period in UK history

The Independent UK

Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza

Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times.

The Conversation

Welfare in numbers: The facts behind Britain’s soaring benefits bill

As Labour attempts to tighten Britain’s burgeoning welfare belt, Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the true cost of the welfare state

The Independent UK

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Scotland avoided PPE ‘VIP lane’ due to devolution, UK Covid-19 Inquiry told

Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman told the inquiry that Scotland ‘did not have a VIP lane and did not need one’.

Evening Standard

Swinney speaks of ‘unbearable’ loss of life from Covid on lockdown anniversary

The first lockdown was imposed across the UK on March 24 2020.

Evening Standard

N.C. Court on Compensation for (Apparently Unauthorized) Forced Vaccination by School

The court concludes that the federal 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act preempts state battery claims, but not state constitutional law claims.

Reason

Civil service cuts: where is Rachel Reeves hoping to make savings?

The chancellor says government has grown too big since Covid and she is looking to save £2.2 billion a year

Evening Standard

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‘The goal is to disassemble public health’: experts warn against US turn to vaccine skepticism

As measles sickens hundreds and health secretary RFK Jr spreads dubious information, experts sound the alarm

The Guardian - US

TV tonight: a painful but lovely film about the victims of the pandemic

Catey Sexton’s documentary remembers how Covid-19 changed us all. Plus: Crongton is a bold new comedy. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Eliminating rising TB burden: How timely diagnosis is the key?

India is on a fast-track mode to eliminate the huge burden created by the rising cases of tuberculosis (TB), thanks to robust government initiatives including the National TB Elimination Program and 100-Day TB Elimination Campaign. The incidences of TB have dropped significantly from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to…

The Times of India

‘Better than nothing’: clinicians and hospital heads accept lower standards of care outside metro hospitals

Seven million Australians live in rural and remote areas and many struggle to access the same quality of health care as those in metropolitan areas.

The Conversation

Half of UK adults under 44 miss 'Covid lockdown lifestyle', poll finds

ALMOST half of Gen Z Brits miss their lockdown lifestyle five years on from the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study has found ...

The National (Scotland)

Most of Gen Z have never worked a five-day office week — and never want to

Let’s all say thank you to the pandemic’s true silver lining: the death of the five-day office week

Evening Standard

Post-Covid anxiety and poor mental health a ‘key driver in children skipping school’

Children lost an estimated 11.5 million days of learning last autumn term as school absence rates remain higher than pre-pandemic

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Five years on, the outbreak of Covid feels both distant and too horribly close

My phone tells me it made a ‘Five Years Since!’ slideshow, a kind of greatest hits of photos from March 2020, soundtracked by cheerful, plinking guitar

The Guardian - UK

Ten lockdown lessons to learn for next time

Five years since Boris Johnson ordered the UK to stay home, steps to prepare for the next national emergency are clearer

The Guardian - UK

‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn

The alarm has been raised by experts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown

The Independent UK

The Covid-19 lockdowns changed everything about our lives – so why do we insist on forgetting them?

IN FOCUS : It’s no wonder we don’t like to think about the Covid era, writes Lauren O’Neill on the five-year anniversary of Boris Johnson announcing the first lockdown. In retrospect, it changed so much that we once took for granted about work, relationships and ourselves

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The week in audio: Lockdown’s Legacy; Journey Through Time; IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson – review

A powerful Radio 4 series explores the long shadow of Covid; a new history show feels more like a lecture; and the former first lady teams up with her brother

The Independent UK

‘Kids are still struggling’ Five years on, how the Covid pandemic changed life on a single UK street

IN FOCUS: The entire country was placed into lockdown five years ago this weekend. Colin Drury reports how one street remembers an unprecedented moment in history

The Independent UK

Himalayan fur goblin and teacup werewolf: The breeds of dogs helping boost adoptions

A volunteer thought outside the box to get more dogs adopted in Nashville - and it worked

Euronews

Five years on, did the COVID pandemic have a lasting effect on how we work in Europe?

Experts believe that an initial spike in remote work during the pandemic is mostly over and that the future will involve hybrid work.

Euronews

In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (17-21 March 2025).

Evening Standard

Lessons not learned from Covid five years on from lockdown, campaigners say

A protest took place at the National Covid Memorial Wall in London on Friday.

The Conversation

The pandemic badly affected young people’s mental health – but also showed what they need now to thrive

The common narrative around teenage behaviour in the UK sets parents up for a fairly sustained period of turbulence and unpleasantness.

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