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

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

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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...
Melbourne at night

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

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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...
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews 06 Sept 2020

Stage 4 restrictions in Melbourne metro extended to 28 September

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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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Coronavirus restrictions in your state

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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...
A traveller walks between empty check-in kiosks at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in June 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

How COVID-19 could impact travel for years to come

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By John Gradek, McGill University In late 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published its “Economic Performance of the Airline Industry” report. It contained...
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Creating a COVID-19 vaccine is only the first step. It’ll take years to manufacture...

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By Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of Sydney The world is hoping a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine will soon become available. So far, more than 160...
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8 ways the coronavirus can affect your skin, from COVID toes, to rashes and...

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By Michael Freeman, Bond University As the pandemic progresses, we’re growing increasingly aware COVID-19 affects multiple parts of the body beyond the lungs. That includes...
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‘I will never come to Australia again’: new research reveals the suffering of temporary...

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By Laurie Berg, University of Technology Sydney and Bassina Farbenblum, UNSW In the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown in March, many temporary visa holders...
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‘No one would even know if I had died in my room’: coronavirus leaves...

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By Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney; Catherine Hastings, University of Technology Sydney; Emma Mitchell, University of Technology Sydney; Gaby Ramia, University of Sydney,...