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Will cases of coronavirus soar again this winter? Will there be a new, more virulent variant, and what is “flurona”? Winter is coming, so we asked infectious disease experts to look at what’s in store.
Pregnant women, breastfeeding mums and children will be excluded from Australia's COVID-19 vaccination program until there's better evidence of safe dosages. As the Morrison Government prepares to roll out the vaccine to millions of Australians from next month, expectant mothers and children are not part of the road map. That's despite the fact that the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is calling for pregnant women to be included in the clinical evaluation trials to speed up the approval process. Also, some pregnant women in the UK and the US ar...
The rich. The powerful. The well-connected. These are the people the Federal Government exempts from both international travel restrictions and hotel quarantine. And they may be the backdoor by which a supercharged new strain entered Australia. Australians aren't allowed to leave the country to travel overseas. Australians must wait in line and pay for their own 14-day hotel quarantine upon return. Unless you get an exemption. These strict quarantine rules have captured the first known cases of Britain's new supercharged COVID-19 strain before it broke out into the community. Four tr...
The latest strain of COVID-19 from the United Kingdom may not be as infectious as we first feared, an infectious disease expert told Today. Professor Peter Collingnon said the evidence surrounding the new strain "isn't convincing" enough to classify it as a mutation. "Data from England suggests the strain does transmit more readily but it's still not clear that people are getting together more over holiday periods or is it the strain itself?" READ MORE: Shoppers with their trolley outside Tesco near Commercial Road on December 21, 2020 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. A new strain of the Covid-...
Evidence UK virus strain is a mutation 'not convincing', expert says 9News.com.au 21/12/2020 Olivana Lathouris The latest strain of COVID-19 from the United Kingdom may not be as infectious as we first feared, an infectious disease expert told Today. Professor Peter Collingnon said the evidence surrounding the new strain "isn't convincing" enough to classify it as a mutation. "Data from England suggests the strain does transmit more readily but it's still not clear that people are getting together more over holiday periods or is it the strain itself?" READ MORE: © Getty S...