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Latest Sydney outbreak causes other States and NZ to reimpose restrictions on NSW arrivals. From ABC Sydney news site

"Queensland, WA, the NT and New Zealand have imposed restrictions on travellers who have spent time at NSW exposure sites, with other jurisdictions urging people to get tested.

Here are the key COVID updates from Thursday:

The wife of a man who tested positive to COVID-19 in Sydney yesterday also recorded a positive result, the second case in what authorities believe could be a growing cluster

Anyone who arrives in Queensland from NSW and has been to an exposure site linked to the latest Sydney COVID-19 cluster will have to enter hotel quarantine from 1:00am tomorrow

WA requires travellers who have visited NSW exposure sites to self-quarantine for 14 days and get a COVID test on days two and 12, and arrivals in the NT must also go into supervised quarantine

New Zealand announced it will pause quarantine-free travel with New South Wales for at least 48 hours as Australian authorities try and find the missing link between overseas travellers and the latest COVID cases

Meanwhile, local restrictions were eased in Perth and the Peel region after Western Australia's most recent lockdown

The TGA has confirmed five new blood clot cases believed to be linked to the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, taking Australia's total to 11"
#1845550
7 May BBC Europe summary:

German health ministers have agreed to allow adults of all ages to have the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, no longer restricting it to people aged 60 or over. Health Minister Jens Spahn says it’s doctors who should decide who will be vaccinated and when.

Spain has been under a state of alarm for six months that comes to an end on Sunday, so all of its autonomous regions are rushing to push through measures to replace it. So far only the Balearic Islands have authorised new rules that extend the overnight curfew until 23 May and limit gatherings to six people. Andalucía is dropping its curfew and allowing pubs and discos to open until 02:00.

Germany has pushed back against a US call for patent protections to be waived for Covid vaccines. Berlin backs the Covax initiative to get vaccines across the world and says protecting intellectual property must stay in place as a “source of innovation”. According to the Spiegel website, Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the patent issue with BioNTech boss Ugur Sahin, as well as how to provide a sustainable supply to poorer countries.

Meanwhile, German newspaper Die Welt reports that France is delaying an EU order for 1.8bn Pfizer-Biontech doses for the next two years. It says EU diplomats are unsure of the reason but suspect Paris wants French companies to have a bigger role.

A group of 10 secondary school boys in Denmark have caused a local spike in infection after watching a Champions League semi-final last week, Danish TV reports. Although the boys didn’t break the rules, TV2 says the mayor has warned of local closures if the infection rate gets any higher.

Serbia’s decision to offer cash and other incentives to people to get vaccinated appears to be paying off. A large crowd gathered at yesterday’s opening of a vaccination centre in one of Belgrade’s biggest shopping malls, where shopping vouchers were on offer to the first 100 in line.
#1845629
Australia has rather backed itself into a corner though, so they will have to stay isolated while the others (well, the UK at least) revert to 'normal'.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-02/ ... 97518?nw=0
At our current pace of roughly 375,000 doses a week, we can expect to reach the 40 million doses needed to fully vaccinate Australia’s adult population in early April 2023.


Whereas;
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... rce-chief/
Britain to be Covid-free by August, says vaccine taskforce chief
#1845689
johnm wrote:This NYTimes article is quite long but well worth a read as it explains a lot about the issues of aerosol transmission and why it wasn't considered as much as perhaps it should have been.....


Must have had Sherlock Holmes to work this one out. Folk lore 'coughs and sneezes spread diseases' and plain common sense said the virus was never going to land in a neat 1m diameter circle around people, and as for the fact that particles might disperse more readily out of doors......
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Charles Hunt wrote:Time to take that holiday to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands,
St Helena, Tristan de Cunha and Ascension Island that we've all been dreaming of.


That was a puzzle until I realised which party's demographic includes luxury Saga cruises to far away places :twisted:
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By nallen
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Charles Hunt wrote:Time to take that holiday to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands, St Helena, Tristan de Cunha and Ascension Island that we've all been dreaming of.


Maybe a chance for an enterprising company to make the most of the shiny new airport on St Helena.

(My great-grandfather was stationed on St Helena around 1900, and I have always dreamed of going there.)
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