Tag: covid-19

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

The Coalition going back to its old tricks of helping well-off businesses while at the same time kicking the less fortunate in the guts. This is regression to the mean – in more ways than one ⟼

⟼ 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.

Like all of us in the tourism sector, we have been hit hard, but can empathise with each other’s concerns about what the future holds…

Tourism operators in the Douglas Shire have been buoyed by an announcement from Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden committing to further discussions surrounding the opening of a trans-Tasman travel bubble as the Shire again looks to welcome tourists to the region…