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In today’s featured cartoon, Bob Moran illustrates an intricate medieval-era quest map of how to exit the coronavirus lockdown.
Peter Brookes scoffs at the announcement made by Matt Hancock, UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, that the Boris Johnson government has reached its target of 100,000 Covid tests per day. The cartoonist dresses up Johnson in the style of Queen Elizabeth II, whose birthday was celebrated last month, and depicts the old adage ‘when pigs fly’.
Christian Adams dismisses Boris Johnson’s announcement that UK passed its peak of coronavirus cases, by bringing attention to the R0 factor that tracks how many people, on average, are infected by every person who has the virus.
Morten Morland takes a jibe at Johnson’s comments on the usefulness of face masks — a U-turn from the UK government’s initial sceptical stance — in the context of his recently becoming a father to a baby named Wilfed Lawrie Nicholas after the doctors who saved his life from Covid-19.
Kevin Siers depicts the recent accusations of sexual assault against Joe Biden, presumptive US presidential nominee from the Democratic party. Biden was accused by a woman who worked in his Senate office in 1993.
Adam Zyglis takes a swipe at US gun laws, in the context of Canada banning assault-style weapons following a gruesome mass shooting.