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The exigencies of COVID-19 posed some challenges to the expectations of the ECHR/Human Rights

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Some of the measures put in place to tackle the exigencies of COVID-19 will endure long after the pandemic has abated in the UK – otherwise we would have learnt nothing from the pandemic and forgotten nothing. There is therefore the need, going forward, to carefully calibrate the fine balance between public health needs and safety with observation of human rights.

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This page is a summary of: Highlighting some of the challenges COVID-19 has posed to the European Convention on Human Rights, BJPsych Bulletin, July 2020, Royal College of Psychiatrists,
DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2020.64.
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