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âWe have incredibly low rates of infection in Australia, but without very high vaccine uptake rates, weâre never going to achieve any long-lasting protection, and weâll just keep doing the same thing over and over again.â
There are now growing calls for a cautious easing of border restrictions, with many of Australiaâs leading infectious diseases figures suggesting a new, risk-based quarantine system would allow select groups to safely avoid 14-day mandatory quarantine in a hotel.
Professor Sharon Lewin, the director of the Doherty Institute, suggested people who had been vaccinated or travelled from low-risk countries could safely quarantine at home with regular testing.
The ExeCTU collaborates with healthcare researchers to design and deliver important health-related studies.
The University of Exeter Clinical Trials Unit (ExeCTU) has been instrumental in facilitating three major trials into COVID-19 in the past year.
On this year’s International Clinical Trials Day, we are marking the outstanding contribution the ExeCTU has made in advancing crucial research that builds understanding of improving treatment and care in the face of the pandemic.
The ExeCTU collaborates with healthcare researchers, locally, nationally and internationally, to design and deliver important health-related studies, ensuring clinical research is of the highest quality. Since its inception in 2015, ExeCTU has been actively involved in 30 studies.
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The University of Melbourne, Burnet Institute and Doherty Institute today welcomed an additional $245 million investment from the Victorian Government to build the new Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) in Parkville.
Headquartered in the prestigious Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, the AIID will bring together an exceptional network of leading researchers, public health experts and clinicians from the University of Melbourne, Burnet Institute and Doherty Institute.
The AIID is a critical part of Victoria’s investment in future-proofing the national effort to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and be fully prepared for any future pandemics.
This high-level preparedness includes:
Faster development of new drug candidates and tools to combat new infectious diseases
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