Melbourne is currently reporting around 20 new COVID-19 cases per day (23 today, 15 yesterday). In most parts of the world these numbers would most likely be considered insignificant – background even. However, correctly, our Government ...
“Freedom Day” – 19th July 2021! After a long year of lockdowns and restrictions, the Prime Minister of the UK declared the lifting of most COVID-19 related health policies including mask use and social distancing. This “opening up” has been met with mixed ...
As of yesterday July 15th 2021 at 11:59 pm a snap five-day lockdown was ordered in Melbourne. This comes just as we were almost getting used to “normal” life; just a few days ago there were wild celebrations in little Italy (Lygon Street), as Italy ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected most aspects of “normal” life and our enjoyment of sporting events has been one of those aspects! Football (soccer for some people) is by far the most popular sport in the world and even minor disruptions ...
Despite the availability of safe and effective vaccines, the current consensus is the COVID-19 will become endemic. Although some parts of the world are approaching herd immunity, issues with vaccine availability, vaccine hesitancy and the emergence ...
Given the transmissibility of the delta variant “, and since only ~5% of the population is currently fully vaccinated, “Australia” is taking no chances! Approximately 12 million people (~50% of the population) is now is some form of lockdown...
The longer a virus such as SARS-CoV-2 is “allowed” to spend in its new host (us!), the more likely it becomes that it can accumulate mutations some of which will give the virus a competitive edge. It can be thought of as Darwinian evolution in rapid...
Some latest headlines are indicating that there is a direct relationship between vaccination rates and decreased rates of SARS-Cov-2 infections; not that surprising! Latest data shows that 2.75 billion doses have been administered to date...
With over 70% of the population vaccinated, (the magic range for herd immunity is ~70-80%), major US cities – i.e. New York and California are now reopening. The announcement came as new cases in New York dropped below ~1000 per day ...
As expected emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants are now becoming the major issue with respect to elimination of the virus. The most popular variant in the past couple of months is the variant first identified in India; first designated as B.1.617 and now referred to as