Healthcare
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Our COVID testing strategy needs updating
The fast-moving Delta variant has exposed the failures in our current system, and why we need to immediately deploy daily rapid antigen testing nationally in all high-risk settings.
- by Dean Whiting
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Coronavirus pandemic
‘We have a growing problem’: NSW records 163 new COVID-19 cases
NSW has recorded 163 new locally-acquired cases in the latest reporting period, the highest daily tally of the latest outbreak.
- by Pallavi Singhal
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
Code red: NSW plunged into COVID national emergency
Gladys Berejiklian is running out of strategies to contain the outbreak of the Delta strain, which means no end in sight to Sydney’s lockdown.
- by Deborah Snow
Opinion
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Sarah Moaney to skip tonight’s ceremony
The first rule of a lock-in is no-one says it’s a lock-in.
A jab and a showbag: WA COVID-19 vaccine rollout to include Royal Show walk-in trial
New mass vaccination clinics will open from next month in Perth as WA starts providing an extra 10,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine each week.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Canterbury-Bankstown health, aged-care workers to undergo tests every three days
NSW health authorities extended the advice to all nurses, doctors, aged-care and health workers in the council area as concerns rise about the virus in critical workplaces.
- by Lucy Carroll
‘We are not at that point yet’: McGowan refrains from locking off WA to rest of Australia
WA Premier Mark McGowan says the COVID-19 danger level in Australia is very high but he will not go overboard by banning travel from every state and territory despite the Delta variant spreading through the country.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Explainer
Robots
‘Die as a human or live forever as a cyborg’: Will robots rule the world?
Will nanobots and brain chips help us thrive – or could cyborgs wipe us out?
- by Sherryn Groch and Tim Biggs
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Sydney and Victoria lockdowns taught us a valuable lesson
We have a natural experiment happening before our eyes. Victoria going hard and early, NSW part way through slow and steady.
- by Tony Blakely
Explainer
Coronavirus pandemic
COVID 2.0? How is Delta rewriting the pandemic?
What is the Delta variant that has sent so many Australians into lockdown? And how is it changing the outbreak?
- by Sherryn Groch
Explainer
Coronavirus pandemic
How far off is a pill to treat COVID? What drugs work on the virus?
A quick guide to COVID treatments, more than 18 months into the pandemic.
- by Sherryn Groch