Category: Health and Well Being

The number of news COVID-19 cases per day in Victoria is down to around 40 per day, from over 700 prior to the Stage 4 lockdown.

The Morrison government has confirmed today that every Australian will receive a free coronavirus vaccine dose.
The Federal government has signed an agreement to secure a minimum of 25 million doses with British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Victorians should be proud today; their hard work during Phase 4 lockdown is now paying off. And all Australians should say “Thank you, Victoria!”

The Big Three pathogens – HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria – cause hundreds of millions of infections annually and collectively kill more than five million people a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The economic waste and human suffering is immense, but there is no scramble to get a vaccine or deliver treatments in the way that an eye on huge expected profits for selling a vaccine in rich developed countries is sending drug companies into a frenzy.

REALITY CHECK /
We share an in-depth analysis of the international status of COVID-19 by our very own Dr Doug Quarry, and Professor John Oxford.

This Weekly Report is created for International SOS, the world’s leading medical and security services company of more
than 10,000 multi-cultural medical, security and logistics experts providing support and assistance from over 1,000 locations in 85 countries.

The three leading coronavirus vaccines, Oxford / AstraZeneca, Moderna, and CanSino, are currently undergoing Phase 3 trials, one in the US, one in Brazil, and one in Brazil and South Africa.

Dr Doug Quarry / Time for Queenslanders to take Covid-19 seriously again

Local cultural awareness camps for youth offenders funded by Corrections Queensland
Goals include developing pride in indigenous heritage and bush skills
Builds on a program run by Richard Burchill

About 300,000 residents of ten Melbourne postcodes have spent their first night of lockdown aimed at stamping out several new coronavirus clusters as another 66 new cases are confirmed in Victoria today.

After 51 COVID-free days, Beijing is experiencing China’s most significant outbreak of COVID-19 since February. The new outbreak has occurred despite rigorous testing, control, and quarantine measures. For this reason, this outbreak has worrying implications for the control of coronavirus globally