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New fact-checked video explainer

The Australian Academy of Science has just published a new fact-checked video explainer on the coronavirus answering the following questions: • If you’ve had the virus, can you get reinfected? •… more
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'We've got to go hard - NOW".

The window is closing': Australia must learn from the mistakes of Italy and enforce even MORE extreme social distancing measures than the PM has announced, expert claims READ MORE
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China’s Latest Coronavirus Case Exposes a Terrifying Trend

A biosecurity professor at the University of New South Wales, Raina Macintyre, warned that the majority of China’s population is still vulnerable to the virus. Containing the spread city by city, she… more
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Australia among world leaders on coronavirus testing, health experts say

Epidemiologist and Curtin University pro vice-chancellor of health sciences Professor Archie Clements (ISER CI) told The New Daily that Australia’s COVID-19 testing regime is second only to world… more
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Coronavirus: Sound policies in place, so now it’s all up to us, people

“Whether we get as bad as Italy depends on how we handle the ­response from here on and how much we manage to reduce ­contact between people with the measures we’re undertaking.” READ MORE
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Australia sees its biggest rise in coronavirus cases in one day to 636

University of New South Wales head researcher at Kirby Institute, Raina MacIntyre, said the rapidly growing trend would continue for at least a fortnight, when the impact of Mr Morrison’s social… more