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How prudent to drop all COVID mandates?

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Updated on: 27 February,2022 08:36 AM IST  |  Mumbai
Anju Maskeri | anju.maskeri@mid-day.com

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How prudent to drop all COVID mandates?

Visitors crowd around the crocodile shelter at the Jijamata Bhosale Udyan and Zoo, Byculla, earlier this month. Pic/Getty Images

Last week, while unveiling the Living With COVID strategy, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said England was exiting the “grimmest years in our peacetime”. His statement underpinned how the UK’s aggressive Coronavirus-mitigation strategies had made it the freest country in Europe. Health Secretary Sajid Javid went as far as calling February 24, 2022, as Freedom Day after the government scrapped all remaining emergency COVID laws after two years of crippling lockdowns—no face masks in London’s public transport, no five-day isolation after testing positive. 

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