Tag: Coronavirus restrictions
COVID is surging in unvaccinated Taiwan. Australia should take heed
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Alarm bells rang internationally last week when Taiwan announced it was moving to its second highest COVID alert level after a recent...
Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19 long game
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Incredibly, a whole year has passed since the first emergence of COVID-19. What looked like a temporary inconvenience at first is turning...
Europe’s second wave is worse than the first. What went so wrong, and what can it learn from countries like Vietnam?
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Europe is again in the grip of a COVID-19 resurgence, with outbreak hot-spots in the United Kingdom, Spain and France each...
‘Slow and steady’ exit from lockdown as Victorian government sets sights on ‘COVID-normal’ Christmas
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The Victorian government today announced the eagerly anticipated roadmap out of COVID-19 lockdown. It features several steps that reflect a much slower...
Two weeks into Melbourne’s lockdown, why aren’t COVID-19 case numbers going down
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Fourteen days after Melbourne was put back into lockdown, with the Thursday tally of 484 new cases in Victoria makes for dispiriting...