Tag: coronavirus

We should get smarter, more resilient and self-reliant. Governments should promote innovation, especially in renewables, and education and training.

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

⟼ A vaccine for COVID-19 ?

President Donald Trump’s assertion this week that the US having the world’s most COVID-19 cases should be seen as a “badge of honour” epitomised all the failings of irrational, autocratic decision-making.

Remember we are only a little over three months into a pandemic caused by a completely new virus. So much remains unknown about COVID.

In a Press Conference, Dr. Mike Ryan, the Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, today clarified the difference between pandemic “second waves” and “second peaks in the first wave.”

Rockhampton has not had a COVID case for about seven weeks, and perhaps has let its guard down.

On any view of it, we are in extraordinary times. We are in the midst of a pandemic. People are dying. COVID-19 is, in many respects, unique compared to recent mass infectious diseases, like SARS and MERS. This disease is potentially fatal. It is highly contagious. It does not discriminate. Asymptomatic infected persons can spread it and its sequelae are not confined to pneumonia. It has been linked to major organ damage due to embolism and in children, severe septic shock.

Council yesterday unanimously resolved to endorse a $179,000 COVID-19 relief package to ease pressure on businesses and residents suffering financial stress in the Shire.