COVID-19
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Victoria’s latest grim Covid statistic
Just a few days after the health department warned BA.4/BA.5 was set to become Victoria’s dominant variant and would lead to rising...
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Officials work on vaccine supply for kids under five
The biotechnology company has revealed its paediatric vaccine could be supplied from August, if approved by Australia’s drug watchdog. Officials are trying...
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‘Extraordinary’ number of deaths avoided by Covid vax
Researchers estimate that 19.8 million out of a total of 31.4 million potential deaths were prevented in the first year after vaccines...
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Dan’s Covid jab ‘dilemma’
Australia’s vaccine advisory panel could delay a recommendation to expand the Covid booster until a shot better targeting Omicron becomes available. Sub-variants,...
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Andrews reveals Covid jab ‘dilemma’
Australia’s vaccine advisory panel could delay a recommendation to expand the Covid booster until a shot better targeting Omicron becomes available. Sub-variants,...
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Suburbs at risk of new ‘more dangerous’ Covid strain
The BA. 4 and BA. 5 Omicron sub-variants have been found in wastewater catchments in Melbourne’s west, east and on the Mornington...
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‘Ways not seen before’: New Covid warning
Chief medical officer Paul Kelly said rates of reinfections were expected to rise as not enough of the population had received a...
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Covid hospitalisations to rise with immune-evading variant
Wastewater detections of BA.4/BA.5 have more than tripled since late May, rising from 5 to 17 per cent on June 23. It...
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Surprising way to treat Covid-19
Researchers in Brazil tried the unconventional approach on a woman who suffered from a genetic disease that impaired her body’s inflammatory response...
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Big change to Covid testing unveiled
From next July 1 GPs and pharmacies will be required to do the bulk of the state’s Covid jabs, with the number...
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Questions over Weimar’s plum new job
The Herald Sun in April exclusively revealed that Mr Weimar, an experienced bureaucrat, would be recruited to the senior job.Mr Weimar, in...
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Warning over new Covid scam
The text message, which is being sent to phones across Victoria, includes a link to a fake Medicare or MyGov site where...
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Outrage over Victoria’s unvaxxed teacher ruling
It is “teacher against teacher” at some schools, with teachers who remained in their roles throughout the pandemic expressing outrage that staff...
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Emergency declared as polio emerges after two decades
The “type-2” poliovirus derived from vaccines has been circulating in the city’s sewers between February and May, with the UK Health Security...
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Australia on track to hit shocking Covid figure
Every day so far this month has seen 30,000 new cases or more, according to data from the federal Department of Health...
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Australia’s role in future pandemics
At the G20 joint finance and health ministers’ meeting overnight, Health Minister Mark Butler and Treasurer Jim Chalmers committed Australia to supporting...
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Covid variant spreads to new state
The Omicron BA.5 variant will be the driver for the spike, predicted to hit over the next two months. Chief Public Health...
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Four words that spread Covid
Speaking just four words an hour increases the spread of Covid 10 times more than just breathing normally, an alarming new study...
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What’s holding back ‘deep’ Covid probe
But despite Labor leading the call during its time in opposition, Mark Butler now says that’s unlikely to happen until the pandemic...
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Omicron v Delta: Which is more likely to lead to long Covid?
The researchers, who published their findings in the medical journal The Lancet, revealed just under five per cent of people infected with...
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When Aussies could get Omicron vax
And, the company said its mRNA vaccine production model is so fast it will soon be able to produce, within weeks, vaccines...
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International travel: New Covid rules
Here are the latest updates.UNITED STATES AND CANADAAs of June 12, the CDC no longer required air passengers travelling from a foreign...
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Victoria scraps mandates for workers
From next Friday, the state government’s booster mandate for education, food distribution, meat and seafood processing, and quarantine accommodation employees will be...
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Revealed: Australia’s first long Covid clinic
Both young women have suffered ongoing debilitating chronic fatigue and brain injury after catching mild cases of Covid-19 in December last year.Together...
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New breakthrough to explain Covid brain
The discovery opens the way for trials of potential treatments including an existing drug for epilepsym and provides hope that new treatments...
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Covid vaxx approved for babies to kids under 5 in landmark ruling
The agency authorised Moderna’s two-dose vaccine for children aged six months to five years, and three doses of Pfizer’s shots for those...
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Reason premiers ganging up on Albo
Premiers and chief ministers have called for a 50-50 funding deal to be locked in ahead of Friday’s first meeting in Canberra....
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Expert’s bold claim on vaccine mandates
Professor Nancy Baxter, from University of Melbourne’s school of population and global health, made the admission to Victoria’s pandemic declaration accountability and...
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The Covid strain becoming dominant
The Omicron sub-variant known as BA.5 originated in South Africa and has taken hold in Australia as well as the US and...