Mes: diciembre 2020

A New Zealand-Australia travel bubble is a step closer after New Zealand’s Cabinet agreed in principle to establish a bubble with Australia early next year. Australia already accepts New Zealand travellers without forcing hotel quarantine. And despite hotel quarantine outbreaks in South Australia and NSW, Australia has kept community transmission […]

It was one of the four vaccines that the Australian Government had pinned its hopes on, but on Friday we heard the University of Queensland vaccine had been canned. The vaccine had shown promising results in early trials and was deemed safe, but its downfall was that it caused recipients […]

It’s been a huge week for coronavirus vaccine news: mass vaccination programs have begun in the UK, more scientific data has been published about the Oxford vaccine and it’s all looking quite promising. But one worry has popped up in the UK with the Pfizer vaccine – some patients have […]

During Victoria’s second wave, thousands and thousands of healthcare workers in Victoria were infected with COVID-19. Aged care workers and nurses were the most likely to get sick and amazingly 70 percent of them caught it while they were at work. So how did so many Victorian healthcare workers get […]

If you knew what you know now about coronavirus, what would you have done differently this year? Since COVID came into our lives, more than 67 million people have had COVID and more than one and a half million people have died from it. On today’s Coronacast, it’s time to […]

As the world eagerly awaits the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine, it’s worth looking at exactly how it might and might not work. While we know from trials that the vaccines are very good at stopping people from getting sick from COVID, that’s not the same as a vaccine protecting […]