To combat the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccination drives around the world are seen as one of the crucial initiatives. Though some initiatives were taken in this regard for FSWs, they were not enough to meet the required ends. An organization named AINSW (All India Network of Sex Workers) represe...
Senior members of NSW's COVID and Economic Recovery Committee met on Tuesday evening, and it is understood that the easing of isolation rules was at the top of their agenda. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard, in confirming the likely end of the rules, conceded that such changes would need t...
More free RATs are expected to be provided to school staff and students to support compliance with these new rules. The authorities also pledged to provide good ventilation for schools with additional air quality measures. NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said the removal of isolation requirements...
Australia's two worst-hit states New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria on Monday recorded their lowest numbers of daily COVID-19 cases in the year. NSW reported 14 deaths and 6,184 new infections, marking a further drop on the record low 6,686 reported on Sunday, although the hospitalization...
Blood cancer is the most common type of cancer and the leading cause of death by disease past infancy among children. Children with blood cancer are vulner
1 GBD estimates integrate standard measures such as prevalence and mortality rates into specific rules-based indicators quantifying health loss, and thus provide new insights and add value to standard population health assessment. Moreover, Burden of disease (BoD) estimates allow comparisons between a ...
Australia has successfully contained all past outbreaks through tough social distancing rules, snap lockdowns and internal border controls helping keep its COVID-19 numbers relatively low, with just over 30,300 cases and 910 deaths. Though no local cases were reported in the country for most...
The Territory has recorded 963 COVID-19 infections overnight and changes to voting rules announced this morning mean anyone with COVID-19 can vote in the federal election. Previously, anyone who returned a positive result before 6 pm on Tuesday (17 May) but had not app...
So, how many exposure days are prevented by current isolation rules? It's impossible to know, but based on the above, at most it would be around one quarter, and will probably be much lower than that. The question, then, is whether reducing isolation by two days towards the tail of th...
Under the pressure of staff shortage, NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell told local radio station 2GB on Wednesday that the potential easing of isolation rules for teachers as essential workers "is something that is on the table". Meanwhile, the state of Queensland reported 8,534 new COVID-...