“I followed the authorities’ advice not to stock up on food at the beginning of the lockdown … now, my housing compound won’t let me out, and there is no delivery service.”

Fauci defended the policy of lockdowns, said that the inspiration for the lockdowns came from watching what Communist China was doing, and he was not able to cite a single study that supposedly changed his mind about the benefits of masking.

As some commentators noted during Victoria’s fourth lockdown, the prime minister has become a “lockdown enabler.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has declared a state of emergency over concerns that the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 may spread abroad. In other news, many countries are instituting new forms of social controls to prepare for the virus spread, including in Israel, where the government will begin using counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology to […]

However, her community has been in lockdown since Dec. 19, and she hadn't had dialysis for four days, a Chinese state media reported on Dec. 20.

The event is at the heart of an investigation being led by senior civil servant Sue Gray which is examining lockdown-breaking parties across Whitehall. The IOPC has been contacted for comment.

But a new report by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is challenging those lockdown assumptions.

Protesters have spilled onto suburban streets in Melbourne's outer southeast to rebel against the city's strict COVID-19 lockdown rules.

Often attended by thousands in defiance of lockdown restrictions, the protests have triggered nightly clashes between demonstrators and police.

Johnson announced a three-tiered system of restrictions on Oct. 12, and repeatedly rejected Labour’s call for an immediate 2-to-3-week-long national lockdown, saying he wanted to avoid the "misery of a national lockdown."

Outdoor sports venues must close, but, unlike the first lockdown, playgrounds will remain open.

Residents line up for nucleic acid tests during a lockdown in Shanghai on April 16, 2022.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the lockdown measures were similar to those put in place during the previous CCP virus peak in the spring.

Researchers at a top U.S. university releasing the results of a new study on lockdowns. What they found might shock you. Clothing companies seem to be ready to bring their manufacturing closer to home.

By late September, Greater Sydney will have been under three months of strict lockdown. NSW Police block off main roads surrounding Broadway in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 21, 2021.

Oceana Grill, a popular seafood restaurant in New Orleans, has achieved a first-of-its-kind victory in its long-running legal battle to receive payouts from insurer Lloyd’s of London for loss of revenues during its COVID-19 shutdown beginning on March 20, 2020. On June 15, a Louisiana state court reversed an earlier decision and ruled in favor […]

What happens when the next pandemic comes? With little seemingly being done to hold the Chinese regime accountable for its role in at least spreading the coronavirus, the possibility of another outbreak isn’t so far-fetched. Former Lieutenant Governor of New York Betsy McCaughey says reforming the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is at the core […]

A military base in Bethesda, Maryland, was placed on lockdown due to a bomb threat, said the base on Wednesday morning. Hours later, the base lifted its shelter in place order.

She was worried the state would close her school next, since it's on the edge of the lockdown zone. Another local resident, Ivana, supported the lockdown. “Absolutely. I agree. I think all schools should be closed.

The lockdown will be reviewed on Saturday morning.

Definitely two sides to this lockdown.” Although evidence of death rates has been scarce, the prolonged lockdowns in Sydney and other Australian cities has coincided with an uptick in requests for mental health support.

A senior British Cabinet minister had to be escorted by police away from a protest on Tuesday after he was surrounded by a group of anti-lockdown demonstrators in central London.

IPA said there were a few factors that caused small businesses to be disproportionately harmed by lockdowns.

This lockdown makes it the third for the state this year. McGowan defended the measures as necessary to avoid potentially more significant consequences.

Partial Lockdowns Shenzhen has reported about 20 daily infections in the past a few days.

Commentary After a slow start, vaccination rates have accelerated strongly in Australia, with 6,240,640 Aussies now fully vaccinated and just over half the population (52.8 percent) having at least one jab in their arm. But although Australians would like to hear that their uptake of the vaccine was world-leading, it is actually Canada’s and Spain’s […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed a “full lockdown” that took effect at 1600 GMT (12 p.m. EDT) and will last until May 17 amid soaring COVID-19 cases and deaths. It is the first nationwide lockdown lasting nearly three weeks.

The new lockdown, with Level 3 restrictions, allows people to leave home only for essential shopping and essential work. Public venues will remain closed.

National cabinet has agreed to set second dose thresholds of 70 and 80 percent to significantly reduce the prospect of lockdowns.

Authorities in Victoria have extended the state’s sixth lockdown by another two weeks after the initial lockdown—which began on Aug. 4—failed to quash an emergence of COVID-19 infections.