COVID-19

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two people talking

How to talk to someone who doesn’t wear a mask, and...

By Claire Hooker, University of Sydney It could be a brother or sister. It could be a neighbour. It could be a person you work...
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COVID-19 test | Image from Shutterstock

Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs

By Craig Lockwood and Lucy Crawford Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully...
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Melbourne lockdown | Photo by SGC on Unsplash

The modelling behind Melbourne’s extended city-wide lockdown is problematic

By Joshua Gans, University of Toronto I totally support the goal of eliminating the coronavirus from Victoria and at the same time hopefully eliminating it...
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Melbourne at night

Victoria now has a good roadmap out of COVID-19 restrictions. New...

By Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute The COVID-19 roadmap for Victoria announced by Premier Daniel Andrews sets the state on the right path. Something like it...
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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews 06 Sept 2020

Stage 4 restrictions in Melbourne metro extended to 28 September

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews today announced the Government's plan for easing coronavirus restrictions in the state. The Premier started off his announcement about a roadmap...
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Map of Australia Photo from Shutterstock

Coronavirus restrictions in your state

By Liam Petterson, The Conversation; Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation, and Wes Mountain, The Conversation While COVID-19 restrictions were initially announced by the federal government and...
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