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Will Mask Wearing Stick Around Post-COVID? Share Published 13 hours ago: July 20, 2021 at 10:00 am Mask mandates are in place in Victoria and New South Wales as these states continue to see COVID cases in the community. And public health experts have argued face masks will continue to be an important measure in our fight against the virus for some time to come. However, masks won’t always be compulsory, particularly outside outbreak situations. In most Australian states and territories at present, masks are not mandatory but are recommended in certain settings, such as where physical dista...

Australia's sluggish vaccine rollout has meant both residents and carers in aged care facilities have been slow to get their vaccine doses.

Related Pages CDC Vietnam’s Biosafety and Biosecurity Program Officer, Chi Bui, leads online training session on SARS-CoV-2 infection prevention and control. Photo credit: Thuy Do. As the world was waking up to the news about an unknown respiratory illness emerging in China in early 2020, Vietnam immediately took action to protect its nearly 98 million citizens. Experts say the early use of strict temperature screening and testing, targeted lockdowns, and constant communication to citizens helped the government control the pandemic. Only days after the first reports that a new coronavirus ...

Australia’s vaccine options: How they compare We’ve got potent weapons against the pandemic virus but we’re not acting fast enough to deploy them. Health by Sue Dunlevy Premium Content Subscriber only We won the race to develop vaccines against Covid-19 but our failure to get enough of them into human arms has given the virus time to mutate fast enough to outrun them. Even before scientists have produced the promised booster vaccine doses to cover the UK, South African and Brazilian variants of the virus several new super infectious In...

We’ve got potent weapons against the pandemic virus but we’re not acting fast enough to deploy them.