COVID-19 Updates
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Victorians forced to report positive RAT results to health department and isolate for seven days
Mandatory system involves calling department or filling in online form expected to go live on Friday Victorians who return a positive rapid antigen test for Covid will now be required…
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Vulnerable Australians with Covid could miss out on lifesaving treatment due to testing delays
Sotrovimab must be given within five days of symptoms appearing, but doctors warn at-risk patients may not be identified in time Get our free news app; get our morning email…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: health experts break with city leader by calling for civil servants to work from home, suspension of in-person classes
Civil servants should work from home and in-person classes ought to be suspended to help contain an emerging fifth Covid-19 wave in Hong Kong, health experts have argued, although the…
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Moving back to Australia mid-pandemic was like entering a time warp | Jacqueline Housden
After 18 years in the UK, my dreams of our new life had not included my mother bursting into work meetings holding a kilo of raw chicken It will be…
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‘Everything will go back to zero’: Hong Kong businesses cry foul over abrupt return of tough social-distancing measures
The abrupt return of tough anti-pandemic restrictions amid a local Omicron outbreak has been met with shock and dismay by affected industries, with the beleaguered catering sector in particular crying…
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Italy makes Covid vaccinations compulsory for over-50s
Workplace rules also tightened to require health passes for those 50 or over with minimum €600 fines for non-compliance Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Italy has…
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Grammys postponed, while Sundance goes online, citing risks from Omicron coronavirus variant
The upcoming Grammy Awards were postponed on Wednesday due to what organisers called “too many risks” due to the Omicron coronavirus variant. No new date has been announced.The ceremony had…
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‘Covid is affecting all of acute care – so the system sludges up’
A hospital doctor in Yorkshire explains how Omicron is testing northern hospitals’ resources, with staff juggling beds to control infection and dealing with a huge influx of patients Coronavirus –…
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Johnson fumbles and flails under pressure from Rayner | John Crace
At the first PMQs of the year, faced with tough questioning by Labour’s deputy leader, the prime minister threw truth to the winds It’s an ill wind and all that.…
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This is the action Britain must take to limit the damage of Omicron | William Hanage
The surge of the latest Covid variant is likely to be short – but without appropriate measures, it could still wreak havoc Dr William Hanage is a professor of the…