Sydney’s two-week lockdown will continue for another week to midnight, Friday, July 16, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced. The decision came following 27 new COVID-19 cases were identified in the 24 hours to 8pm Tuesday. Only 13 of those cases were in isolation during their infectious period. NSW recorded 27 new locally acquired cases… Read more »
The two-week lockdown of Sydney and surrounding regions will reportedly continue for a third week, with students learning from home, according to media reports. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian will officially announce the way forward at 11am on Wednesday, but the government appears to have already briefed major media that the stay-at-home order will continue for… Read more »
The NSW Government has announced a series of grant packages and changes to the Dine & Discover program to aid small businesses and people across NSW impacted by the current COVID-19 restrictions. The support will be available to businesses across the state, not just in the Greater Sydney lockdown area. NSW treasurer Dominic Perrottet says he believes… Read more »
Sydney and surrounding regions will go into a full lockdown for a fortnight until July 9 from 6pm tonight, June 26. NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced the two-week stay-at-home order for Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong following an emergency cabinet meeting today. Weddings in those regions will be allowed to… Read more »
NSW Health has recorded 29 news diagnoses of COVID-19 to 8pm last night, (12 new cases and 17 of which were reported in yesterday’s numbers). The news comes as the Chief Health Officer and the NSW Premier urge Sydneysiders to stay compliant as further exposure sites are recorded across the metropolitan area. Further lockdowns likely… Read more »
Existing COVID-19 restrictions across Greater Sydney will be extended until midnight, next Friday, July 2, and the city will go into a quasi-lockdown as another 22 new locally acquired infections have emerged. Contact tracers have been able to link all but one of the cases to known cases or clusters. NSW Health is currently treating… Read more »
Sydney is masking up once again following an outbreak of the Delta strain of COVID-19. Yesterday the NSW government made wearing masks mandatory if you’re in a building other than your home, as well as when travelling on public transport. Masks are now compulsory in Greater Sydney and the Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour local… Read more »
Sydney residents south of the Sydney Harbour Bridge have been told to stay home for the next week and the state government tries to limit the spread of COVID-19 The new restrictions, including wearing a face mask at work, kick in from 4pm today, June 23, for one week. NSW reported 10 locally acquired cases… Read more »
Ground-breaking research by computer scientists at RMIT University has developed an artificial intelligence model that can hear the effects of Covid-19 in the sound of a forced cough, even when people are asymptomatic. While the idea is not new, scientists at Cambridge University and MIT have been investigating the concept, the work at RMIT’s School… Read more »
Fintech Australia has been forced to postpone The Finnies less than a fortnight before the awards were due to be held on June 9 as Victoria goes into a week-long snap lockdown after 34 active Covid-19 cases emerged in the last three days. With surrounding states also imposing restrictions on anyway who’s been in Victoria… Read more »
A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of COVID-19. Three researchers working in gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug discovery explain how their work rose to the challenge of the pandemic, and their hopes that each technology is now poised to continue making… Read more »
A lot has happened over the past year, so you can be forgiven for not having a clear memory of what some of the major concerns were at the beginning of the pandemic. However, if you think back to the beginning of the pandemic, one of the major concerns was the role that surfaces played… Read more »
Premier Daniel Andrews has announced Victoria’s five-day lockdown will end as planned at 11:59pm tonight, February 17. Andrews says the snap lockdown, which was instigated as a “circuit breaker” to prevent a potential third wave of the virus has worked. The news comes as the state records no new local transmissions and zero new cases… Read more »
Brisbane-based digital diagnostics startup Ellume Health has signed US$231.8 million (AU$305m) deal with the US Department of Defense to build a US factory producing up to 19 million of its rapid Covid-19 home testing kits in a major expansion for the business. Under the agreement with the new Biden administration, supported by the US Department… Read more »
Sydneysiders and Melburnians will be forced to have quieter ends to 2020 with new restrictions being announced by both states. Victorians have just six hours to adapt to changes kicking in at 5pm on New Years Eve, with the number of people at private gatherings at home halved to 15 visitors, with mask use indoors… Read more »
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