Tag: Lockdown
How the Groundhog Day grind of lockdown scrambles your memory and sense of time
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With roughly half of Australia in lockdown at the moment, a common experience is a warped sense of time and poor memory....
Victoria’s 5-day lockdown may not quash Delta. Here’s what our modelling predicts instead
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Victoria has entered a five-day lockdown to control its growing outbreak of the more infectious Delta variant.
Until midnight on Tuesday restrictions mean residents are only allowed...
Grattan on Saturday: COVID boxes Morrison in while Albanese hits the road
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As the Delta strain escalated our COVID experience to a new stage of national disruption, Scott Morrison has been under a form...
Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’
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With Melbourne under lockdown for another seven days, the consequences of Australia’s inefficient and dangerous quarantine system continue.
This outbreak started with...
Here we go again — Perth’s snap lockdown raises familiar hotel quarantine questions
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Perth is the latest Australian city to head into a snap lockdown aimed at stamping out a coronavirus cluster resulting from...
Yes, another lockdown in Victoria hurts. But it might be our only way to avert a third wave
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Victoria went into stage 4 lockdown from 11.59pm Friday, as the cluster from the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel continues to grow.
Premier Daniel...