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Delta Details – 7 Things All Australians Need to Know About the COVID-19 Delta Variant
The Delta variant is a strain of COVID-19, first detected in India in late 2020, which now has the world in its grasp. Unlike...
BUSINESS/FINANCE
Do vaccination passports take away freedoms? It depends on how you frame the question
Picture: Dave Hunt/AAPYou may have already downloaded to your phone a digital certificate proving you have received one or two doses of a...
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National Cabinet leaves us in the dark about reopening the nation, so we’re left joining the dots
Prime Minister Scott Morrison talked about the Kabul bombings on Friday but didn’t announce what happened at National Cabinet. Mick Tsikas/AAP ImageNational Cabinet met...
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Opening with 70% of adults vaccinated, the Doherty report predicts 1.5K deaths in 6 months. We need a revised plan
Picture: Joel Carrett/AAPOne consequence of the escalating COVID outbreak in New South Wales has been increased political tension around the “national plan” for...
BUSINESS/FINANCE
Can Australian employers make you get a COVID-19 vaccine? Mostly not — but here’s when they can
Picture: Onchira Wongsiri/ShutterstockAustralia’s official policy on vaccines is that they be voluntary and free. But the federal government hasn’t shut the door completely...
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Can ‘viral shedding’ after the COVID vaccine infect others? That’s a big ‘no’
Image: ShuttlestockFears of “viral shedding” and other concerns after the COVID vaccine has led some businesses to ban vaccinated customers from the premises,...
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Victoria’s 5-day lockdown may not quash Delta. Here’s what our modelling predicts instead
Daniel Pockett/AAP ImageVictoria has entered a five-day lockdown to control its growing outbreak of the more infectious Delta variant.Until midnight on Tuesday restrictions mean residents are only allowed...
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View from the Hill: COVID battle on a knife edge
Picture: Joel Carrett/AAPThe argument Scott Morrison has consistently put – that NSW has a better way of dealing with COVID, by avoiding comprehensive...
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Concerned about the latest AstraZeneca news? These 3 graphics help you make sense of the risk
Dan Peled/AAP ImageThe recent announcement the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine would now only be recommended for the over 60s has highlighted the many ways we think...
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Why do our COVID outbreaks always seem to happen in Melbourne? Randomness and bad luck
Picture: James Ross/AAPA man from Wollert, a suburb in Melbourne’s north, breezed into Melbourne from South Australian hotel quarantine, stopped at a 7-11,...
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