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Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 15.59 EDT Epidemiologists are questioning why Australia has banned all flights from India, with a Guardian analysis revealing India has fewer coronavirus cases per capita than either the United States or the United Kingdom during their respective Covid peaks. The Australian government did not suspend flights from those countries as it did this week with India. Experts say cases in India could be underreported but they believe the numbers are still lower than the...

Comparing US and UK case numbers suggests Australia’s India flight ban based on ‘fear factor’ Josh Nicholas and Elias Visontay © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters Epidemiologists are questioning why Australia has banned all flights from India, with a Guardian analysis revealing India has fewer coronavirus cases per capita than either the United States or the United Kingdom during their respective Covid peaks. The Australian government did not su...

Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 16.56 EDT Good morning. India’s Covid nightmare continues to dominate the headlines, while Josh Frydenberg promises more budgetary stimulus, and a legend of the moon landing dies. These stories and much more, in Thursday’s morning mail. India’s official death toll from the coronavirus has passed 200,000 after its worst day yet of the pandemic – recording 360,960 new cases, and with 3,293 deaths reported. The capital, Delhi, remains under lock...

Why Australia is under pressure to upgrade advice on Covid’s aerosol transmission Melissa Davey © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: AP The latest coronavirus outbreak from hotel quarantine in Western Australia has focused attention on how the virus is transmitted. Hotel quarantine is supposed to be secure with returned travellers separated from each other. Staff and residents are meant to be regularly tested for Covid-19 and infection control procedures are supposed to b...

Influenza Vaccination Linked to Higher COVID Death Rates 1 Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Michael Murray, naturopath and author, confirmed what Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., told me in her second interview with me, namely that seasonal influenza vaccinations may have contributed to the dramatically elevated COVID-19 mortality seen in Italy. In a blog post, he pointed out that Italy had introduced a new, more potent type of flu vaccine, called VIQCC, in September 2019: 2 “Most available influ...

AMA, experts attack government failure to accept airborne spread We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Leading infection-control experts say they are frustrated and angry about a federal government panel’s reluctance to accept the dangers of airborne spread of COVID-19, warning it is putting frontline workers and the community at risk. A controversial recommendation from the Australian government’s ...

As Indonesia prepares to begin mass inoculations against COVID-19, its plan to prioritise working age adults over the elderly, aiming to reach herd immunity fast and revive the economy, will be closely watched by other countries.

Australia could end up like North Korea and be cut off from the world Charlie Moore, Political Reporter For Daily Mail Australia © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Australia could end up being cut off from the rest of the world for five years if we dont accept some Covid-19 cases and deaths, a leading disease expert has warned. ANU Professor Peter Collignon said the nation would become like hermit kingdom North Korea where residents are never allowed to leave if our att...

Swapping handwashing for sanitiser partly to blame for Victoria’s gastro outbreak Melissa Davey © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Erik Anderson/AAP People using hand sanitiser instead of – rather than as well as – washing their hands have in part been blamed for an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis in Victoria. In March, Victorian health authorities warned gastroenteritis cases were up four-fold from the five-year average. On Monday, the Department of Health said v...

Swapping handwashing for sanitizer partly to blame for Victoria outbreak The Guardian People using hand sanitizer instead of — rather than as well as — washing their hands have in part been blamed for an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis in Victoria. Last month, Victorian health authorities warned that gastroenteritis cases were up four-fold from the five-year average. Yesterday, the Victoria Department of Health said that viral gastroenteritis was continuing to spread, with 389 outbreaks i...