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Will Mask Wearing Stick Around Post-COVID? Share Published 13 hours ago: July 20, 2021 at 10:00 am Mask mandates are in place in Victoria and New South Wales as these states continue to see COVID cases in the community. And public health experts have argued face masks will continue to be an important measure in our fight against the virus for some time to come. However, masks won’t always be compulsory, particularly outside outbreak situations. In most Australian states and territories at pr...

Australia's sluggish vaccine rollout has meant both residents and carers in aged care facilities have been slow to get their vaccine doses.

Related Pages CDC Vietnam’s Biosafety and Biosecurity Program Officer, Chi Bui, leads online training session on SARS-CoV-2 infection prevention and control. Photo credit: Thuy Do. As the world was waking up to the news about an unknown respiratory illness emerging in China in early 2020, Vietnam immediately took action to protect its nearly 98 million citizens. Experts say the early use of strict temperature screening and testing, targeted lockdowns, and constant communication to citizens h...

Australia’s vaccine options: How they compare We’ve got potent weapons against the pandemic virus but we’re not acting fast enough to deploy them. Health by Sue Dunlevy Premium Content Subscriber only We won the race to develop vaccines against Covid-19 but our failure to get enough of them into human arms has given the virus time to mutate fast enough to outrun them. Even before scientists have produced the promised booster vaccine dose...

We’ve got potent weapons against the pandemic virus but we’re not acting fast enough to deploy them.

Indian variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 detected in Melbourne What does this mean and what should I do? COVID-19 restrictions are being reimposed in Melbourne as authorities try to find the source of an outbreak in the citys north. Credit: Sandra Sanders/Reuters Evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 strain was recently detected in Melbourne wastewater, leading to the detection of 15 locally acquired cases of COVID-19. Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has confirmed that the strain is the B1.617 varian...

4 min read The small archipelago nation of Seychelles, northeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, has emerged as the world’s most vaccinated country for COVID-19. Around 71% of people have had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, and 62% have been fully vaccinated. Of these, 57% have received the Sinopharm vaccine, and 43% AstraZeneca. Despite this, there has been a recent surge in cases, with 37% of new active cases and 20% of hospital cases being fully vaccinated. The cou...

Abstract Biosafety Level 4 labs are in the spotlight as speculation swirls that Covid-19 may have emerged from such a facility in either China or the US.  In the US, the mass proliferation of high-containment germ labs since 9/11, and its track record of safety lapses, remains a concern with the renewed interest in the field of biodefense.  In light of past accidents of anthrax leaks in US labs and SARS leak in Chinese labs, there needs to be improved regulation and governance of germ labs in...

The confusion, which comes as several governments commit to inoculating their citizens with Sinovac’s shot, is fueling skepticism over Chinese vaccines.

One Chinese vaccine and 4 efficacy rates confuse experts, raise doubts Premium A medical worker shows a syringe with the Sinovac Biotech vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a healthcare centre. (AFP) . Updated: 13 Jan 2021, 09:56 AM IST Bloomberg Uncertainty swirls over the efficacy of the leading Chinese shot, for which four different protection rate numbers have been released in recent weeks Overlapping efficacy data is not unprecedented in the Covid-19 vaccine race Share Via Read ...