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Ian Sinclair asks ROY WILKES from the Zero Covid campaign to explain what ‘zero-Covid’ actually means, whether other nations have had success following this strategy and what concerned citizens can do to support the campaign

ON JANUARY 13 official figures showed a record daily 1,564 new Covid-19 fatalities in the UK, shamefully taking the total number of deaths from Covid in the country to over 100,000.

In response to this ongoing government-made national catastrophe, the Zero Covid campaign was established in October 2020, supported by trade unions, academics and health experts.

What, exactly, does “Zero-Covid” mean? The total suppression of the virus? 

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