Relaunched Covid campaign calls for elimination strategy


Zero Covid has relaunched as the Covid Action grassroots campaign of individuals and affiliated labour and trade union organisations. It is demanding safe, effectively ventilated workplaces and schools, free testing for all, mask wearing on public transport and in crowded indoor venues, decent sick pay and enforceable air quality standards. It also says that booster shots for just a section of the population are not enough and that everyone should be entitled to a booster. 


It says the Covid pandemic is not over. Twice as many people died from Covid this summer as in the summer of 2021, and public health experts are suggesting another Covid wave is on its way. 


Covid Action is putting forward a strategy aimed at eliminating community transmission of the virus. This would see transmission driven down to stop more new variants emerging.


“Covid and its lethal variants will remain as a major threat to life, health and economic survival unless and until full protective measures and vaccine access to all is enforced, and safety from infection becomes a major government priority,” said Covid Action steering committee member Joan Twelves.