Leaders in COVID 19's discovery and mapping, Professor Zhang Yongzhen, Professor Edward Holmes and Professor Dominic Dyer, will share how lessons from the...
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Regulators in Australia and the United States last week approved Omicron-specific boosters, following approval in the United Kingdom in mid-August.
In Australia, a Moderna Omicron booster has been provisionally approved...
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From Friday September 9, the isolation requirements for people with COVID and no symptoms will be cut from seven days to five days....
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My colleagues and I published the most detailed studies of the earliest events in the COVID-19 pandemic last month in the journal Science.
Together, these papers...
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The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID, originated from bats and then, probably after passing through an intermediary host, gained the...
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The latest Omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will...
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Australia is heading for its third Omicron wave in the coming weeks, as BA.4 and BA.5 become the dominant COVID strains.
BA.4 and BA.5 are more infectious than...
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In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions...
