Queensland authorities are still trying to piece together how a highly contagious strain of COVID-19 spread through a hotel quarantine facility, as they reveal the extraordinary measures they’re taking. Days after it was revealed six cases of the UK variant of the virus were linked...
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Virus nightmare: QLD ‘on the brink’
Queensland health authorities have spent the night scrambling for answers over how six existing cases of the UK’s highly infectious COVID strain were linked to the same quarantine hotel despite having no contact. Queenslanders fear the state is “on the brink” of a nightmare after...
Virus nightmare: QLD ‘on the brink’
Queensland health authorities have spent the night scrambling for answers over how six existing cases of the UK’s highly infectious COVID strain were linked to the same quarantine hotel despite having no contact. Queenslanders fear the state is “on the brink” of a nightmare after...
WHO says there will be no COVID herd immunity in 2021
Despite vaccines against COVID-19 being rolled out in a number of countries, the World Health Organisation warned on Monday that herd immunity would not be achieved this year. Countries across the globe are looking forward to vaccines finally allowing a return to normality in the...
Qld hotel evacuated for UK strain outbreak
A Queensland quarantine hotel will be evacuated after six cases of the highly-infectious UK strain of coronavirus were linked to the building. Six cases of the highly infectious UK strain of COVID-19 have now been linked to a Brisbane hotel quarantine facility, prompting authorities to...
Qld hotel evacuated for UK strain outbreak
Six cases of the highly infectious UK strain of COVID-19 have now been linked to a Brisbane hotel quarantine facility, prompting authorities to take extraordinary measures to keep any further outbreak under control. While Queensland recorded no new cases of locally acquired COVID-19 on Wednesday,...
Bunnings alert after new Queensland COVID case
A Brisbane Bunnings and a bottle shop are on high alert after a man who contracted the highly contagious UK strain of COVID-19 visited the stores while potentially infectious. Queensland recorded just one new locally acquired case of COVID-19 overnight, the partner of a hotel...
Most powerful passports 2021: Japan tops list, Australia at number 8
New Zealand no longer boasts the most powerful passport in the world, with the top honour returning to Japan in a new global ranking. Citizenship firm Henley and Partners, which periodically ranks passports according to the level of travel freedom they allow citizens, has published...
NZ passport no longer most powerful
New Zealand has lost its claim to having the world’s most powerful passport after a shift in the global ranking put a new country on top. New Zealand no longer boasts the most powerful passport in the world, with the top honour returning to Japan...
‘Unprecedented’: New crisis coming
Think 2020 was bad? 1177BC was worse. That was the year a civilisation collapsed. Now historians are warning that – if we don’t heed the warning signs – 2077 may bring the same fate. Like our own, the Bronze Age civilisation survived many crises in...