Australia, 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 community controls. These included mandatory ...
daniel andrews, the premier of australia's victoria state who oversaw one of the longest pandemic lockdowns in the world, said on tuesday he would resign after about nine years in office. andrews' surprise resignation comes just shy of a year after he led the centre-...
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The data were used to compare two points in time: March 2020 when nationwide COVID-19 restrictions were imposed, and late October the same year when lockdowns eased in Victoria. "The impact of the March restrictions was most pronounced in Victoria and New South Wales, in terms of people t...
Victoria said it has detected 73 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, the lowest since July 3. The easing number of COVID-19 cases comes as the state capital Melbourne begins its fourth week of a six-week lockdown that sees residents confined to their homes,...
Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in two years China began its most extensive lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation’s “zero-COVID” strategy...
Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality worldwide. Changes in PTB rates, ranging from −90% to +30%, were reported in many countries following early COVID-19 pandemic response measures (‘lockdowns’). It is unclear whether this variation reflects real differences in ...
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The second thing that has gone wrong dates right back to the original lockdown decision of March 2020. It is the Government’s abiding contempt for its citizens. It does not trust them to take sensible precautions and so resorts to coercion. The logic of coercion is that every one must be...
During the peak of the lockdown in the spring, Polina from Montreal had friends over. “I did not follow recommendations,” she said. “I travelled out of the country twice and have gone to bars, restaurants and theatres a dozen times. ...