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Travellers entering Australia from areas with high levels of Covid-19 such as the UK may have to quarantine until the middle of 2022, a leading disease expert has predicted.  Professor Peter Collignon of the Australian National University said some form of quarantine could be required even after Australias population has been vaccinated. This is because the vaccines are 70 to 90 per cent effective, meaning millions of Aussies will still be at risk of catching the deadly disease.  A family arr...

The hard border is a mental health hurdle only a few can jump, Oliver Peterson writes.

The snap three-day Greater Brisbane lockdown was ‘unreasonable’ and unlikely to have prevented the virus from spreading, a leading expert says.

Restrictions eased following Greater Brisbane snap lockdown 11/01/2021|7min Greater Brisbanes snap three-day lockdown has come to an end, however some restrictions have remained in place from 6pm tonight until 1am on January 22. The Greater Brisbane region includes the Cities of Brisbane and Ipswich, Logan City, Moreton Bay Region and Redland City. Those people in Greater Brisbane, along with those who have been in Greater Brisbane since January 2, are now permitted outside their accommodatio...

The snap three-day Greater Brisbane lockdown was ‘unreasonable’ and unlikely to have prevented the virus from spreading, a leading expert says.

The snap three-day Greater Brisbane lockdown was ‘unreasonable’ and unlikely to have prevented the virus from spreading, a leading expert says.

Peter Collignon is a professor of infectious diseases at the ANU Medical School.

Indonesia has decided to give COVID-19 vaccinations to working age adults before older citizens. The plans differ from vaccination programs in countries such as the United States and Britain, which give priority to older individuals who face a higher risk of death from the disease.

Australia must strengthen its hotel quarantine system: Infectious disease expert08/01/2021|7min Strengthening Australias hotel quarantine system to ensure there are little to no breaches is paramount if the country wants to mitigate the risk of community infection, says Infectious Disease Expert Peter Collignon. "Theres been quite a number of breaches both here and in New Zealand. We need to decrease that," he said. "There are lots of things you can do to decrease the risk of it coming here, bu...

Vaccines approved: Pfizer/BioNTech (11 December), Moderna (18 December) Doses administered: 4.56 million Doses ordered: 1.01 billion, of 6 jabs Percentage of population covered by orders: 169% The United States has been at the forefront of global efforts to develop a vaccine, having ploughed billions of dollars into research funding under its Operation Warp Speed programme.  While the US Food and Drug Administration was slower than the UK and Bahrain in granting regulatory approval for the Pfi...