COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: India’s death toll reaches 400,000; Australia tightens cap on international arrivals
India reached the grim milestone of 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday, half of them during a second wave in the past few months that overwhelmed the health care…
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NSW Covid exposure sites: full list and map of Sydney hotspots and coronavirus case locations
Here are the current coronavirus hotspots and Covid-19 public exposure sites in Sydney and regional New South Wales, and what to do if you’ve visited them. Our analysis and map…
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Queensland Covid-19 exposure sites: full list of Qld coronavirus hotspots and case location alerts
Here are the current coronavirus hotspots and Covid-19 public exposure sites in Queensland and what to do if you’ve visited them. Follow our Covid LIVE blog for the latest updates…
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Scott Morrison has announced a four-phase pathway out of Covid, so what’s in Australia’s pandemic exit plan?
When will life go back to normal? When can Australians go overseas? How soon will lockdowns become a thing of the past? Here’s what we know so far about the…
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Playing chicken: Chris Kenny and South Australia’s chief health officer see who blinks in Covid clash | The Weekly Beast
Sky News host unleashes barrage of questions at SA press conference. Plus: feathers ruffled at ‘Big Bird bandits’ court appearance South Australia’s normally unflappable chief health officer, Nicola Spurrier, almost…
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Are Australia’s closed borders a roadblock to post-pandemic life?
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Well into the second year of the pandemic, it seemed like Australia had Covid-19 under control.But this week almost half the country’s population…
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Coronavirus: anti-parasitic drug ivermectin is hot property in Indonesia, Malaysia, India as Delta variant spreads
Ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasitic infections in humans that is more commonly used on animals, is now trending in Indonesia.Pharmacies across the country are reporting a boom in…
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Are Indonesia’s new coronavirus measures strict enough to curb the Delta-variant surge?
While the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali – home to almost 60 per cent of the population – are set for an 18-day lockdown to curb a surge in…
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Bye ‘jinxed’ travel bubble, hello ‘air travel corridor’ as Singapore, Hong Kong well placed to reconsider plan: minister
Vaccinated Singaporeans may be able to undertake quarantine-free leisure travel to Europe and the United States by the end of the year, according to the island nation’s health minister Ong…
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Coronavirus live: cases rising in Europe after 10 weeks of decline; 400,000 in UK have had long Covid for a year
Figures show day-to-day activity of 634,000 people in UK affected by long Covid; WHO: 10-week decline in Covid cases in Europe has come to an end; health clinics in Moscow…