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Share on Twitter Christmas Day and New Year's Eve have the potential to be "disastrous" and "calamitous" super-spreading events, according to epidemiologists who say the current lockdown on Sydney's Northern Beaches may not be enough to contain the outbreak. The cluster grew to at least 83 cases on Monday, after 15 new positive tests were returned overnight. All of the new cases were linked to the Avalon cluster. READ MORE Northern Beaches residents are under strict stay-at-home orders until midnight on Wednesday. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said it's possible the current...

Australia 'relying too heavily on too few vaccines' Save Share Australia needs to do more to diversify COVID-19 vaccine supplies, one of the nation’s leading epidemiologists says, as a fresh outbreak of the virus forces top federal police into self-isolation. Raina MacIntyre, head of the Kirby Institute’s biosecurity program, said the move to abandon the University of Queensland-CSL vaccine highlighted the need for more diverse vaccine supplies. Professor Raina MacIntyre.  Peter Braig “That was a good lesson in the sense that the biggest component of our plan was the UQ vacc...