Lyn Gilbert News Today

A very warm welcome to all of you watching us in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world with more than 2. 9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in 185 countries. The total number of people known to have died worldwide is now more than 206,000 according to figures collated byjohns Hopkins University in the United States. The us has suffered more than a quarter of those tot...

After Covid experts predict more, possibly worse, pandemics. Some fear we haven’t yet learned the lessons of this one

Australia was hailed for shutting out the virus, but control soon gave way to crisis.

The way forward is not to predict the end of the pandemic, but to do as much as possible to protect the country against what is yet to come.

Australian aged care residents were neglected during coronavirus outbreaks in 2020, a report has found.The federal government recently published the findings of the independent review of the outbreaks in aged care facilities, Xinhua news agency ...

The Federal Government has accepted all 38 recommendations of an independent review into COVID-19 outbreaks in aged care facilities.

‘Bandaid on a gaping hole’: labour hire companies remain exempt from single site aged care rules Crikey 2 hrs ago © Provided by Crikey The federal government has revealed rules requiring aged care workers to work at a single site during COVID-19 outbreaks do not apply to agency staff, including labour hire contractors and emergency workers — a large portion of the aged care workforce. The single site guidelines have been heavily criticised for not going far enough to mandate privately...

Australians waiting for a Pfizer jab are deluding themselves that they are not at risk of infection and are unaware they are putting their families at risk too, according to leading experts in the field.

Examine , a new weekly science newsletter written by national science reporter Liam Mannix. You can sign up here (it’s free). The third edition is below. “When the science changes we must change our response, and when the virus changes its method of attack we must change our method of defence.” “The elements of this are quite frightening. It’s quite different than anything we’ve seen before.” “This hyper-infectious variant is moving at hyper-speed.” Can you guess which politic...

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield names places visited by new cases Australia has suspended its quarantine-free travel arrangement with New Zealand following the detection of Covid-19 in a couple and their daughter in Auckland at the weekend. After initially saying there would be no change to the travel bubble, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly convened an urgent meeting late on Sunday with the chief health officers from NSW, Queensland and Victoria. “It was decid...