COVID Australia: Australia's newest pandemic challenge
Infection numbers that would once have caused widespread alarm are being met in some quarters with indifference.
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Infection numbers that would once have caused widespread alarm are being met in some quarters with indifference.
A rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the emergence of foot and mouth disease from Indonesia and long delays and lost luggage have created the perfect storm.
Only one person under 50 died from COVID-19 in NSW in the week to July 16, compared with 97 people aged over 80.
Some on the front line of Australia’s latest coronavirus battle say they have observed early signs the new BA.5 subvariant may be increasing disease severity.
Believe it or not, there are still some places in the world where people and their governments are fearful about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). And in those places, COVID cases are soaring despite ultra-strict “safety” requirements like mandatory masking. Two countries’ government tyranny in particular, New Zealand and Singapore, are seeing substantial increases in “positive” […]