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2021-07-16 03:35:22 GMT2021-07-16 11:35:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English CANBERRA, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Australias national science agency has found that a "warm" COVID-19 vaccine suitable for remote locations is effective against all key variants of the virus. In a study published on Thursday, researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) evaluated the efficacy of heat-tolerant coronavirus vaccine formulations developed by the Indian Institute o...

CSIRO A ‘warm’ COVID-19 vaccine suitable for remote and resource-limited locations lacking access to cold storage supply chains is one step closer following an international collaboration between scientists from India and Australia. CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, played an important role in evaluating heat-tolerant COVID-19 vaccine formulations developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and biotech start-up Mynvax – against all current SARS-CoV-2 variants of concer...

Victoria has entered a seven-day lockdown over concerns about a "highly infectious" variant of Covid-19.

Indian variant stuns Victorian authorities Save Share The vaccine strategy must change to recognise the fast growing outbreak of the Indian variant of the COVID-19 virus, said experts who called for “ring vaccination” to suppress the Melbourne outbreak. The Indian mutation, known as B.1.617.1 has been genomically identified as the cause of the exploding cluster in Melbourne, with chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton saying the virus was now being passed on from one infected per...

A concerning coronavirus cluster in Melbourne has now climbed to 15 cases  Latest cases are of the double mutant Indian strain, which is hyper-infectious   Alert issued after infected case attended the AFL game at the MCG on Sunday Acting premier said the source of the outbreak was hotel quarantine in SA  James Merlino said he wont rule out taking further action on restrictions

Indian variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 detected in Melbourne What does this mean and what should I do? COVID-19 restrictions are being reimposed in Melbourne as authorities try to find the source of an outbreak in the citys north. Credit: Sandra Sanders/Reuters Evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 strain was recently detected in Melbourne wastewater, leading to the detection of 15 locally acquired cases of COVID-19. Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has confirmed that the strain is the B1.617 varian...

A concerning coronavirus cluster in Melbourne has now climbed to nine cases Contact tracers are scrambling to track down the mystery link of infection Latest cases are of the double mutant Indian strain, which is hyper-infectious Three infected cases over-50 had not been vaccinated, despite being eligible There are 43 venues on the outbreaks exposure list as of Wednesday morning  Alert issued after infected case attended the AFL game at the MCG on Sunday

CSIRO CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has published the peer-reviewed results of its independent preclinical evaluation of the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in an animal model, conducted in early 2020. Peer-reviewed results from last year’s preclinical evaluation of the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine have been published today in the scientific journal npj Vaccines. CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, conducted the independent prec...

COVID vaccines: where the bloody hell are we? New AstraZeneca advice puts a spanner in the works, so what are our alternatives? Australia’s vaccine rollout program is now being overhauled due to new recommendations regarding the AstraZeneca vaccine. Based on the advice of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), the Federal Government has recommended that people under 50 preferentially receive the Pfizer vaccine over AstraZeneca. This follows similar decisions made b...

There will be a series of phases where Australians will be able to get their COVID-19 vaccine. Find out where you are on the list.