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As UK COVID variant spreads, Australia urgently needs more purpose-built quarantine stations, experts say ThuThursday 14 updated FriFriday 15 Howard Springs near Darwin has been dubbed the "gold standard" of quarantine facilities in Australia. ( Share Print text only Cancel With yet another cluster of people in hotel quarantine this week testing positive for COVID-19 — this time triggering a mass evacuation of Brisbane's Hotel Grand Chancellor — epidemiologists are calling on the Government to urgently establish more purpose-built quarantine stations like the Northern Territory's Howard S...

Christmas saved for some Sydneysiders as lockdown is extended Share Families in Sydney will get some relief over the next three days, with parts of the city's northern beaches allowed to welcome guests from outside the area. The outbreak has already ruined Christmas for thousands across the country, with states and territories snapping borders shut or carving out parts of NSW for forced quarantine. University of South Australia epidemiologist Adrian Esterman said the relaxed measures seem sound. He also praised NSW's efforts in clamping down on the outbreak, which rose to 97 cases on Wednesda...

The speed at which vaccines have been developed has surprised much of the world. Britain and the United States have granted emergency approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine - and now the Moderna vaccine in the US - with vulnerable communities there already receiving a jab. And with cases of COVID-19 on the rise again in Australia, it’s left many wondering when the rollout will begin here. The federal government has reassured the public a vaccine is coming and has begun preparing a comprehensive plan for distribution in the first quarter of 2021, but nothing is set in stone. This is what ...