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[Link] New COVID-19 variant has been detected in Australia, here's what we know
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Deltacron has been described as mixture of the Delta variant, which spread through Australia last year, and the Omicron variant, which led to high case loads across the nation over the Christmas holidays and into this year.
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[Link] ‘Meltdown’ at UK passport renewals forces travellers to cancel Easter breaks
Read: 10/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Travellers are being forced to cancel Easter travel bookings because of a backlog at HM Passport Office which is delaying renewals. Some passengers have been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket because their new passports failed to arrive before their departure date.
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[Link] Partying passengers stuck in Mexico after airlines decline to fly them home
Read: 31/1/2022 www.cnn.com
Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in Mexico after their return flight to Canada was scrubbed and other airlines have declined to fly them home.
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[Link] Calls for French minister to resign after announcing Covid protocol from Ibiza
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
France’s education minister is facing calls to resign after it emerged he had announced a strict Covid-testing protocol for schools shortly before the start of the January school term while he was on holiday in Ibiza.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Adult Male With Omicron Variant Attended New York Anime Convention
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
During a White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that a vaccinated adult male infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 attended an anime convention in New York City’s Javits Center.
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[Link] Why So Much Fentanyl Is Being Seized at the Border
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Fentanyl seizures at the United States-Mexico border more than doubled in 2021 to surpass heroin for the first time ever. But experts say the COVID-19 border shutdown may explain the record numbers because it gave agents more time to inspect fewer vehicles. U.S.
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[Link] WHO Names New Variant Of Concern ‘Omicron,’ U.S. Issues Travel Ban
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. and Canada are banning and restricting travel from southern Africa after the World Health Organization named a new, potentially more infectious COVID-19 variant that’s been spreading in the region. On Friday the WHO announced the new B.1.1.
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[Link] SA Health tells hospitals to take in patients quickly to avoid ramping in 'gaslighting' move
Read: 26/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Health has issued a direction ordering the state's hospitals to ensure no ambulance transfers exceed one hour. The health system has been dealing with an ongoing ramping crisis with some patients spending five hours in the back of an ambulance earlier this week.
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[Link] ‘We got it wrong’: SA Health boss concedes failures on border exemptions
Read: 17/11/2021 indaily.com.au
Appearing before state parliament’s budget and finance committee this morning, SA Health CEO Dr Chris McGowan conceded SA Health was not initially prepared for the volume of South Australians wanting to come home.
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[Link] Doctors say Flight Centre should ‘pull its head in’ after legal threat to WA borders
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Medical professionals have lashed out at Flight Centre’s threat to launch legal action against the Western Australian government’s ongoing border restrictions, calling on the company to “pull its head in”.
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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state
Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.
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[Link] China's COVID death rate is curiously low. An anonymous Beijing doctor told us how they’re doing it
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
If accurate, the official figures highlight the benefits of the world's strictest zero-tolerance policy, which involved keeping borders closed and moving quickly to suppress small outbreaks.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] Australians to be able to travel to the UK, US, Italy, Greece and more without having to quarantine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.9news.com.au
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has provided a list of countries in which Australians can travel to without having to spend time in mandatory isolation.
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[Link] Man spared jail after assaulting attendant on flight from Melbourne to Adelaide
Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Timothy Kenneth Hawkes, 29, was flying from Melbourne to Adelaide in May after South Australian authorities announced the state's border was closing to Victoria due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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[Link] Men Who Spent 29 Days Lost at Sea Say It Was a Nice Break From the Pandemic
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Livae Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni climbed into their small, 60 horsepower motorboat on the morning of September 3 and departed from Mono Island, in Western province, Solomon Islands.
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[Link] Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] ‘The only way’: Australians stranded in New Zealand charter private jets to get home
Read: 28/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australians desperate to get home from New Zealand are going to extreme lengths to do so, forking out tens of thousands of dollars to charter private jets.
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[Link] Gang Members Busted Trying to Smuggle a Carload of KFC Into a Locked Down City
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand police were patrolling the backstreets just south of Auckland on Sunday night when they saw it: a “suspicious looking” car travelling down a gravel road near the city’s southern border.
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[Link] South Australians, including a couple in their 60s, arrested after entering the state without a permit
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Six people, including a couple from Kangaroo Island and another pair who crossed fields to enter the state from Victoria, have been arrested and charged after separate breaches of South Australia's COVID-19 restrictions.
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[Link] Costco 'caught out' by COVID, regrets decision to open new store
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Boolaroo warehouse at Lake Macquarie was set to open tomorrow after eight months of preparation, but is now at the centre of a COVID cluster.
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[Link] Howard Springs quarantine facility expected to reach capacity for overseas arrivals for the first time
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has told Parliament the facility would reach capacity for repatriated Australians in the coming weeks.
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[Link] Australians who live overseas now unable to leave country if they return for visit
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has quietly expanded its ban on Australian citizens leaving the country to include people who are ordinarily residents in another country, meaning that even people who live overseas may not be allowed to leave Australia.
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[Link] Pokémon no go? Players revolt as Niantic sends them back outside
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The developer of Pokémon Go is facing a player revolt after rolling back safety measures implemented at the onset of the pandemic last year. Niantic, the Google subsidiary which released the smash hit mobile game in 2016, had reacted to the onset of the pandemic by tweaking how its games work.
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[Link] Consumer losses top $500 million due to Covid-related fraud
Read: 28/7/2021 www.cnbc.com
Consumer losses due to Covid-related fraud top $500 million, as criminals rip off the unwary in a variety of schemes ranging from online shopping to travel, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission.
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[Link] Virgin CEO calls for open borders, even if ‘some people may die’
Read: 17/5/2021 www.smh.com.au
Virgin Australia’s chief executive has called for the country’s borders to be re-opened before the stated goal of mid-2022, saying it made long-term sense even if “some people may die”.
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