Leading infectious disease expert Raina MacIntyre from the Kirby Institute said while NSW was investing in its health system over the last 20 years, Victoria had been stripping its system bare. READ… more
Contact tracing is bread-and-butter public health for all health departments around Australia – they do it for meningococcal disease, TB, measles and many other infections. It is not rocket science… more
This is the big one. The history we’re living. From Melbourne to Munich, Lombardy to Wuhan and all the way back again: this episode is about what happened when we faced those first coronavirus cases… more
Metropolitan Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown is due to end on Sunday September 13.
While there’s been much speculation around what will come next, we’ll have a clearer picture this Sunday, when… more
UNSW Sydney experts explain the epidemiology definitions you should know before tuning in to another COVID-19 press update – and the ones Australia needs to work on. READ MORE
It had been earlier claimed that only a small percentage, up to 15 per cent, of Victoria’s infected healthcare workers had acquired the disease at work. This claim was rubbished by infectious… more