Our Aussie leaders aren’t seeing eye-to-eye on how best to handle the pandemic – and it appears their constituents aren’t either. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and West Australian Premier Mark McGowan have repeatedly butted heads over how their respective state is keeping coronavirus at bay....
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Quarantine hotel cleaner’s partner tests positive to coronavirus
The partner of the cleaner at the centre of Greater Brisbane’s recent lockdown has tested positive to COVID-19. Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young confirmed the positive result on Monday afternoon but said it would not affect the easing of lockdown restrictions. She said the...
Partner of Qld mutant strain case has virus
The partner of the cleaner who contracted the UK variant of COVID-19 and sparked Greater Brisbane’s recent lockdown has tested positive. The partner of the cleaner at the centre of Greater Brisbane’s recent lockdown has tested positive to COVID-19. Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young...
Glitch in govt contact tracing app
Users report major problems with the Service NSW app, which is used for contact tracing and mandatory for many businesses. Technical glitches have prevented New South Wales residents from operating a government smartphone app used for contact tracing to stop the spread of coronavirus. People...
Government contact tracing app crashes
Technical glitches have prevented New South Wales residents from operating a government smartphone app used for contact tracing to stop the spread of coronavirus. People who use the Service NSW app to “check in” at hospitality venues and other public places found the service was...
Victoria outbreak ‘more worrying’ than Sydney
A leading epidemiologist has said he is “more concerned” at this point about the new outbreak in Victoria than the current cases in NSW. Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases expert at the Australian National University, said it was currently only a “presumption” that the three...
What we know so far about Sydney’s mystery Belrose Hotel cases
Contact tracers are working around the clock in an attempt to find the “missing link” between positive cases that attended a pub on Sydney’s northern beaches. Health authorities say three cases are now linked to The Belrose Hotel, which is located in the northern beaches...