Doctors in Australia are warning that a rapid easing of COVID-19 curbs in Sydney could put pressure on health systems and place more lives at risk from the virus. It comes as the country's most populated city, Sydney, gets ready to relax key restrictions after more than 100...
Professor Nancy Baxter, head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, told Xinhua that Australia is likely to see cases continue as the nation heads into the winter months and looks to live with COVID-19. "There's a number of things converging ...
In the state of Victoria, there were 12,150 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths reported on Wednesday. Victoria currently has 331 patients at the hospital with the virus, including 16 in intensive care.■
Australia's COVID-19 Cases on the Rise as Masks Made Compulsory More Reuters FILE PHOTO: People walk down a city laneway after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were eased for the state of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia, October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders...
Adequate isolation spaces are needed to help fight COVID-19 infections among Greater Victoria’s underserved population. Although it could not disclose an exact number of cases, Island Health confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 among those being sheltered within Greater Victoria’s suppo...
The state of Victoria, a coronavirus hot spot which accounts for more than 90% of Australia's 907 coronavirus-related deaths, saw zero new daily infections and no deaths for the second consecutive day. With no fresh cases of COVID-19 recorded in the rest of the country, Australia saw...
"The general pattern of antibody positivity inblood donorswas consistent with the pattern in reported cases to the end of February 2022: New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland having had big outbreaks, and Western Australia having very limited community transmission," says Dr. Dorothy Machalek, ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The state at the epicentre of Australia's second-wave of COVID-19 infections said on Monday the number of new cases fell to a near two-month low, allowing authorities to detail in a week's time how stringent lockdown measures will be lifted. Victor...
The figure was disclosed on 25 August, as Victoria's capital city Melbourne remains under lockdown after a spike of cases in July.1 Two weeks ago, the Victorian state health minister Jenny Mikakos told a Public Accounts and Estimates committee that only 10% to 15% of health worker ...
COVID‐19EpidemicsPrevention and controlAustralia, like many other countries, had an initial rise in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) cases in March and April 2020; however, this was followed by a relatively sharp decline in May 2020 after federal and state governments introduced strict ...