Untangling Australia s COVID vaccine rollout timetable By Inga Ting, Nathanael Scott and Alex Palmer
As Victorians head back into lockdown, the slow pace of Australia s COVID-19 vaccine campaign has again been thrust into the spotlight . If more people were vaccinated, we might be facing a very different set of circumstances than we are today, Victoria s Acting Premier James Merlino told reporters on Thursday.
Even before the AstraZeneca shakeup in April threw the entire strategy into disarray, Australia s vaccine rollout had fallen short of every target. We don t want to make promises that we can t keep. That is incredibly important, Prime Minister Scott Morrison assured Australians in January.
LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected claims by his former chief aide that he botched Britain’s coronavirus response and is unfit for office.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. said it had been cleared to resume cruises in the U.S. starting with a June 26 embarkation from Florida, even though the state has banned proof-of-vaccination forms required for the voyage.
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(Bloomberg) President Joe Biden said he ordered the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble” its effort to determine the origin of the coronavirus, including whether it possibly came from a Chinese lab accident. Melbourne will lock down as a cluster of cases continues to grow.
U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the spread of the variant first identified in India means it’s too early to say whether the next stage of the reopening of England’s economy can go ahead as planned on June 21.
There are potentially thousands of casual COVID-19 contacts in Victoria after positive cases were tracked at high-risk settings such as bars and nightclubs, Australia s Chief Medical Officer has warned.
Professor Kelly said an emergency Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) meeting had been held to discuss the outbreak, after four new local cases of coronavirus were recorded in the Melbourne cluster today. We know this is a variant of concern that is more transmissible, he said. We are watching that carefully and closely. We have the group of 30 cases so far all linked - that is an important component we know so far.