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As Melbourne emerges from lockdown, experts have cast doubt on the science being used to retain rules such as the 25-kilometre travel limit and the wearing of masks outdoors.

Five million Melburnians will be required to wear masks when they leave their home in a move experts said would offer little extra protection.

A leading epidemiologist has labelled the state government’s move to keep masks mandatory outdoors a “burden”. It comes as Melburnians are freed from lockdown.

No evidence to support Victorian health bureaucracys COVID scaremongering: Panahi04/06/2021|6min Sky News host Rita Panahi says leading infectious diseases experts have said claims made by the Victorian health bureaucracy that the latest COVID-19 variant "moves faster" than other variants is "inaccurate scaremongering". "University of Melbourne Professor James McCaw, an infectious diseases expert who is among a team who advises the national cabinet, said the claims were not supported by the dat...

Victoria has recorded three new local cases of Covid-19 as the government confirmed the easing of lockdown.

Frydenberg says announcement on Victorian lockdown support to be made today; Expert says lockdown could end earlier due to few cases; No new cases in NSW; Decision on Victoria’s quarantine facility request ‘imminent’. Follow updates here.

Several epidemiologists have argued language being used by the Victorian government surrounding the infectiousness of the Kappa Indian variant of COVID-19 is inducing an unwarranted level of fear. Victoria Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has claimed the variant is more infectious and has been spreading quicker than variants the state has previously experienced. Professor Sutton said the current lockdown had been extended to contain the “more concerning, more contagious variant”...

Acting Victorian Premier James Merlino. Source: AAP/Daniel Pockett It’s unlikely the warring sides of the lockdown argument will ever agree on whether the benefit from lockdowns exceed the cost. But regardless of the political and health arguments, every founder should be taking a very close look at the marketing and PR masterclass that the Victorian government continues to display. The lockdown playbook in Victoria has now been refined almost to an art form. First, there’s the convenient l...

Black fungus infection kills elderly man in Sulaimani following cases in southern Iraq    6 Hours "Black fungus," or mucormycosis, primarily affects those with weakened immune systems caused by other medical conditions. (Photo: Archive) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Local health authorities in the Kurdistan Regions province of Sulaimani on Tuesday announced the first known death from a condition known as "black fungus" of a man in his 70s who was suffering from diabetes. "It is normal...

Physicians say state government has jumped gun in stating Kappa is spreading faster, with evidence suggesting ‘there’s nothing different’