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Liverpool man Guardian Australia reports. He was married three months ago, news.com.au adds. His cousin described Alaskar, who was a keen soccer player, as a “very fit guy”. Another relative told 9News he had mild symptoms until Tuesday, when he began coughing, vomiting and then collapsed. In extending her condolences, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her state has probably not reached its “peak” in this outbreak, the SMH reports, while CHO Kerry Chant confirmed Alaskar deterio...

An infectious diseases expert has declared Australia cant keep going into lockdown to achieve zero cases of community Covid transmission. Professor Emma McBryde, an epidemiologist with James Cook University, has also predicted Sydneys daily case numbers of the more contagious Delta strain would remain in triple digits until at least October. My prediction is that Sydney wont drive cases down to zero but what it will do is maintain a small number of cases and, by small I mean a couple of hundred...

No, US health experts didn’t say tests cannot distinguish between COVID-19 and the flu An exchange between a reporter and Victorian Chief Health Officer at a press conference this week gave rise to a another wave of misinformation regarding the tests Australia uses to detect COVID-19. 30 July 2021 CoronaCheck is RMIT ABC Fact Checks weekly email newsletter dedicated to fighting the misinformation infodemic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. You can read the latest edition below, and...

Nobel laureate Peter Doherty is predicting politicians will be reluctant to reopen Australia next year even as vaccination rates surge and people stop dying of Covid. The immunologist, 80, renowned for discovering the role of T cells in the immune system, said Australians living through lockdowns were conditioned to the zero Covid strategy. We will get back to a more normal life next year I expect, but it is going to be difficult politically for the politicians to open up because there will be ...

By Mia Armitage and Hans Lovejoy With more than 30 candidates announced so far for this year’s local government elections in the Byron Shire, the council’s nine seats are the most hotly contested on the Northern Rivers. Campaigns started early compared to previous election years, after a twelve-month delay due to the pandemic.  One of the most noticeable features of the 2021 Byron Shire Council elections has been the number of independents wanting to win power. There were already six indep...

Council elections for more than five million voters postponed until December Electronic voting, dubbed iVote, will be available to voters for first time this year  Delay comes as discouraging sign Sydney could remain in lockdown for months Covid numbers reached a record high on Saturday since the first wave in 2020 Concerns anti-vaxxer protests in citys CBD could trigger superspreading event

Nobel prize winner Peter Doherty on navigating COVID-19 and life in lockdown Nobel laureate Peter Doherty has had a front row seat to Australias COVID-19 response.  He shares his insights into why the pandemic has been a steep learning curve for everyone, including him. 13 July 2021 Its hard to think of a more towering figure in the Australian scientific community than Peter Doherty. The laureate professor won a Nobel Prize in 1996 for discovering how our immune cells destroy deadly viru...

Date Time Experts unite to help get Aussies vaccinated against COVID-19 Image: The Australian Academy of Science is launching a campaign to provide credible information to Australians considering getting a vaccine. Source: Engin Akyurt / Unsplash; CC0 Australia’s brightest scientific minds have joined forces to urge Australians to get vaccinated, arguing COVID-19 is more insidious than the rare side effects attached to some of our vaccines. The Australian Academy of Science has launched a pub...

Advertisement Leading virologists have released a paper setting out their strongest case for COVID-19 emerging from an animal and pushing back hard against the theory that it leaked out of a Chinese laboratory. While the exact animal that harboured COVID-19 has not yet been found, there is strong evidence for an animal origin argue the authors, who include Australian Nobel laureate Professor Peter Doherty. Researcher Shi Zhengli works in a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Credit:AP “Al...

Animal Contagion Most Likely Explanation For Covid Genesis, Says Study Animal Contagion Most Likely Explanation For Covid Genesis, Says Study Wuhan is the largest city in central China with multiple animal markets and is a major hub for travel and commerce, well connected to other areas both within China and internationally, the authors said. Wuhan is the largest city in central China with multiple animal markets. Early Covid-19 cases traced to markets in Wuhan, China, mirror the initial sp...