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Jul 8, 2021 Early COVID-19 cases traced to markets in Wuhan, China, mirror the initial spread of SARS 17 years earlier, scientists said in a paper that concludes that an animal contagion is the most likely explanation for the pandemic’s genesis. The epidemiological history of SARS-CoV-2 is comparable to previous animal market-associated outbreaks of coronaviruses and offers a simple route for human exposure, Edward Holmes, Andrew Rambaut and 19 other researchers said Wednesday in a r...

Liam Mannix17:40, Jul 08 2021 Chinatopix/AP Researcher Shi Zhengli works in a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province. 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, wh...

Covid Origins Mirror SARS’s Genesis in Animals, Study Finds Bloomberg 13 hrs ago © Photographer: NOEL CELIS/AFP Covid Origins Mirror SARS Introduction From Animals, Study Says (Bloomberg) -- Early Covid-19 cases traced to markets in Wuhan, China, mirror the initial spread of SARS 17 years earlier, scientists said in a paper that concludes that an animal contagion is the most likely explanation for the pandemic’s genesis. The epidemiological history of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is comparable...

Date Time Australia has a new four-phase plan for a return to normality Prime Minister Scott Morrison has received criticism from the general public for not having a concrete plan to take us out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Author Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia However, he went some way to addressing this on Friday, announcing national cabinet had agreed to a four-phase plan to get us back to something resembling our pre-COVID way of life. It’s n...

ADRIAN ESTERMANreports on what we know so far…  PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has received criticism from the general public for not having a concrete plan to take us out of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, he went some way to addressing this on Friday, announcing national cabinet had agreed to a four-phase plan to get us back to something resembling our pre-covid way of life. It’s not yet very detailed, and no dates have been set out for the various phases. But we do have some idea of what...

A Melbourne filmmaker finds herself in the box seat of the pandemic We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Neil McMahon Normal text size Advertisement As the COVID pandemic shut down the world in March 2020, Australian filmmaker Sonya Pemberton found herself with a front row seat on history as it unfolded – and she literally watched some of it unfold through a window. Pemberton, an Emmy-award winning documentary maker with a passion for sheddi...

Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra. Photo: teapadorchestra.co.uk LIBERTINES fans who can’t wait for the band’s December residency at The Forum can catch Peter Doherty playing a 500-capacity set at newly rebranded PowerHaus (formerly Dingwalls), on July 3. Billed as “Live/Unlocked/Unrestricted” you never know what might happen when Peter’s onstage. • Congratulations to Parkway gem The Green Note and all the other venues that have finally been able to reopen to liv...

Oh, is this the way they say the future’s meant to feel? Or just 20,000 people standing in a field? Jarvis Cocker sang those words exultantly to 100,000 muddied fans as his band, Pulp, headlined Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage in 1995. Britpop was soaring that June, and I had descended on Worthy Farm for the first time with five friends in celebration of being finished with our exams and free of any parental interference, our excitement diluted by neither the pelts of rain on our army-surplus p...

Melbourn re-enters the social distance after detecting the Covid cluster In Australia, social distance restrictions have been reintroduced in Melbourne after the discovery of the Covid-19 cluster, experts warn that there is a risk of eradicating one of the world’s most successful efforts to eradicate the virus. Five cases of the first-identified variant in India have been found in the city’s northern neighborhoods, breaking an 86-day journey without an infection transmitted locally outside ...

Advertisement “Fair cop,” admits the ABC’s resident coronavirus expert Norman Swan. “I probably did cause some vaccine hesitancy.” Swan is reflecting on months of controversy over Australia’s vaccine rollout in which he was an active and early critic, sounding the alarm over the efficacy of the AstraZeneca jab and its involvement in a very rare but dangerous clotting disorder. The doctor is in: Norman Swan has helped millions of Australians better understand the CO...