In england alone, there are three point seven million people like me who are identified as clinically extremely vulnerable. I'm among that list because i have cronestiseas captan young is the economist's head of audience. He has been writing about his own experience of the pandemic. My mother died from cancer about five days before the uk's lock down was introduced. The government initially asked us to for 12 weeks, but actually it's been a lot longer than that.
Trade is down, red tape is up, details of regulatory harmony are still being hammered out. Britain may be less divided about it, but the benefits of the divorce are still to be seized. For the clinically vulnerable, covid restrictions go beyond government mandates; our correspondent shares a personal view. And a visit to mainland Singapore’s last rural village.
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