Category: Australasia
Australasian Coronavirus News
NZ: Travellers are quarantined by planeload “because we know that is one of sources of infection is the plane journey itself”
Chris Hipkins, NZ Covid-19 Response Minister: “The policy was to try and keep planeloads of people together in managed isolation because transmission within planes has been a problem. More...
SARS-CoV-2: nearly 100m infections, 2m deaths and the global CFR has stopped falling
John Hopkins University figures for 24th January 2021:
New Zealand woman tests positive for coronavirus 2 days AFTER her quarantine period ended. B117 suspected
The new case of Covid-19 in the NZ community is a 56-year-old woman. More...
Genomic evidence of in-flight transmission of SARS-CoV-2 despite predeparture testing
Evidence of in-flight transmission on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to New Zealand is strongly supported by the epidemiologic data, in-flight seating plan, symptom onset dates, and genomic data for this group of travelers who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (passengers A–G). More...
An open letter for proper coronavirus safety measures in schools
“Schools are a Covid19 pandemic driver; there is a consensus on that in literature. More...
New Zealand ice cream tests positive for coronavirus in China
“Three samples of ice cream made from New Zealand-sourced milk powder and Ukrainian dried whey tested positive for COVID-19 in North China’s Tianjin, authorities announced Thursday. More...
B.1.1.7 Coronavirus mutation also reported in Iceland, Denmark, Belgium, Australia, Italy & Netherlands
“The governments of Australia, Italy and the Netherlands say they detected cases of the new strain. More...
Two NHS staff given Pfizer vaccine jab suffer ‘anaphylactoid reaction’
UK regulators urge people with history of ‘significant’ allergies NOT to have Pfizer vaccine injection – just 24 hours after Britain’s mass inoculation kicked off. More...
WHO against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
The World Health Organization said Monday that persuading people on the merits of a COVID-19 vaccine would be far better than trying to make the jabs mandatory. More...
60 million confirmed coronavirus infections globally, and the rate is still increasing
There have now been more than 60,000,000 confirmed coronavirus infections globally and the infection rate is still increasing. More...