NEWS
All customers must provide their contact details at pubs, restaurants and cafes
New guidelines state that all customers at pubs, restaurants and cafes must provide contact details (either written or via the NHS Test and Trace app) on entry. To do so used only to be voluntary, although venues were told to ‘encourage’ customers to provide details. Now, venues that do not ‘refuse entry’ to people who keep hold of their personal details will face hefty fines – Lockdown Sceptics
Vaccine passport trial ‘starting next month’ in theatres and stadiums before being rolled out to restaurants and pubs, as 72 MPs brand the move ‘divisive and discriminatory’ – Mail
UK regulator finds 25 new cases of rare blood clots among British AstraZeneca jab recipients – taking total out of 18 million given the vaccine to 30 – Mail
Social media app Snapchat looked at ways of circumventing Apple’s new privacy rules – Financial Times
Covid vaccinations made mandatory for all health workers in Italy – Mail
COMMENT
Keir Starmer is acting like a Tory superfan, robbing Britain of a real Opposition – Fraser Nelson, Telegraph
My old mother was a truly awful driver, but tracking elderly motorists is a sinister road to go down – Tom Utley, Mail
Our schools are becoming a moral quagmire – Judith Woods, Telegraph
We are taken for April Fools every day – Richard Littlejohn, Mail
