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Specialist emergency physician Ian Norton urged Australias most senior politicians and health bureaucrats to stockpile rapid antigen tests before mass shortages swept the country.

A top doctor who ran the WHOs emergency medical unit said he warned the Australian government to stock up on rapid antigen tests six months ago and the shortage was avoidable.

Local politicians have been blindsided by a raft of new rules for west and south-west Sydney, amid concerns about the region’s vaccine rollout.

Save Share One of the first major trials of rapid COVID-19 testing in Australia has found fast results helped boost safety and confidence in an aged care home in Sydney’s south-west, bolstering employee attendance during the city’s delta outbreak. The trial at the Whiddon Easton Park aged care campus in Glenfield is being closely watched by the federal and NSW governments and is expected to pave the way for more rapid testing in Australian workplaces. A staff member at the Whiddon Eas...

A Coast doctor says there will be a silver lining from the Victorian Covid-19 outbreak if it prompts more people to vaccinate against the virus.

Rotary Ireland confirms its Virtual Conference 2021 will be open to public for free! Dr. Ian Norton says vaccination is a privilege and urges people to counter misinformation about vaccines, particularly on social media Reporter: Wednesday 3 March 2021 9:58 A medical emergency expert has warned that the race is on between the vaccines and the variants of the coronavirus and said its vital the most vulnerable people in society are vaccinated as quickly as possible before these variants begin to...

Covid-19: We have never seen a pandemic of this scale that was shorter than 2-3 years Outbreaks will continue, and parts of the world will wait for vaccines until at least 2025 Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 06:15 Dr Ian Norton   It may be unpalatable and not what people want to hear but the reality is we have never seen a pandemic of this scale end in less than two to three years. In fa...

There’s a strong case to supplement our current testing arrangements with rapid antigen testing in key risk areas, detecting and isolating COVID-19 infections even earlier in the process.

Celebrity Cruises appoints History Will Be Kind for Australian comms January 27, 2021 1:10 History Will Be Kind (HWBK) has been appointed as the new communications agency for Celebrity Cruises in Australia, reporting into the local team to drive strategy forward with local PR, influencer and social media work. The appointment follows the recent announcement of VCCP Group’s UK-based Good Relations as the Celebrity Cruises’ global communications partner, with HWBK to support Good Relations i...

One-size-fits-all hotel quarantine program will need to end, experts say We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss One-size-fits-all hotel quarantine program will need to end, experts say Normal text size Advertisement Health experts say Australias hotel quarantine system could be adapted into a "tiered" program in which some people would quarantine for just a few days or isolate themselves at home. Epidemiologists warn the pandemic will last another ...