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Australia’s international borders to reopen from November. It’s one big step towards living with COVID

  Picture: AAP Image/Lukas Coch “Australia will be ready for takeoff very soon” said Prime Minister Scott Morrison today as he announced the ban on international travel...

A mining camp won’t cut it: Australia’s quarantine system needs a smarter design

 Screen Shot at am. The announcement that the Victorian and federal governments will build a 1,000-bed COVID quarantine hub at Mickleham in Melbourne’s north marks a welcome...

Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’

  Picture: James Ross/AAP With Melbourne under lockdown for another seven days, the consequences of Australia’s inefficient and dangerous quarantine system continue. This outbreak started with...

More than a dozen COVID leaks in 6 months: to protect Australians, it’s time to move quarantine out of city hotels

  Picture: Richard Wainwright/AAP In the past week, at least six Australians returned home uninfected only to acquire the coronavirus while undergoing quarantine in hotels...

Here we go again — Perth’s snap lockdown raises familiar hotel quarantine questions

  Richard Wainwright/AAP Image Perth is the latest Australian city to head into a snap lockdown aimed at stamping out a coronavirus cluster resulting from...

What’s the risk if Australia opens its international borders? An epidemiologist explains

  Picture: Mick Tsikas/AAP Coinciding with the Trans-Tasman travel bubble starting today, over the past week there have been murmurings Australia could soon relax its borders further, through...

Yes, another lockdown in Victoria hurts. But it might be our only way to avert a third wave

 Picture; James Ross/AAP Victoria went into stage 4 lockdown from 11.59pm Friday, as the cluster from the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel continues to grow. Premier Daniel...

Yes, a 16-day incubation period for COVID is possible. But it’s extremely rare

 Picture: Luis Ascui/AAP Over the past week, three returned travellers — one in New South Wales and two in Victoria — have tested positive to COVID-19 shortly after leaving...

Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal

Picture: James Ross/AAP The final report of the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry, issued by former judge Jennifer Coate, outlines monumental errors made by the Victorian government...

Tensions rise on coronavirus handling as the media take control of the accountability narrative

Picture: James Ross/AAP Media coverage of disasters follows a broadly similar trajectory, even though the disasters themselves might take very different forms. The COVID-19 crisis...
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