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As Australia's COVID-19 deaths exceed 1,000, a grim toll but modest by global standards, a country that has used relentless lockdowns now faces perhaps its biggest health policy challenge of the pandemic - how to reopen.
Managing COVID politics: it’s as clear as mud We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Sean KellyColumnist and former adviser to Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. June 28, 2021 — 3.00am Normal text size Advertisement Last week, epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws raised a frightening possibility. Once the Delta variant was loose in Sydney, she said, you might see the virus figure out “how to get around the partially immune Sydneysider – we don’t want to have our own variant of concern”. It was a reminder that, as we go t...
NSW has recorded its biggest rise in daily Covid-19 cases since this latest outbreak began, with 22 new locally acquired infections. NSW Premier Gladys Ber
Victoria will shut its border to NSW at 11.59pm on January 1. The state has reported another two new cases linked to a person from NSW, making it five new cases today. Acting Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan says it was not an easy decision to make. "This has been a difficult year, with many difficult decisions to make," she says. "We have to do everything we possibly can to lock in the situation we have here in Victoria." 11.09PM – Dec 31, 2020 Thank you for reading. Here's what we learnt today: It will be a quiet New Year's Eve across the country for many residents with state governments ...
Advertisement Four days before Christmas, Sydney faces an outbreak of SARS-COV-2. Half of all such infections are asymptomatic, rendering infected people invisible. Epidemics, unchecked, grow exponentially. Credit:James Brickwood Forty new cases today may become 120 new cases by Christmas Day. Half of them will have no symptoms and the rest will have mild symptoms so will carry on as normal. The peak infectiousness of this virus is very early in the infection, before symptoms appear, making Christmas Day a ticking time bomb. People infected today and tomorrow may travel halfway across Sydney ...