Category: Australia
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SYDNEY: Australians admitted to hospitals from COVID-19 neared record levels on Wednesday as authorities urged businesses to let staff work from home and recommended people wear masks indoors and get booster shots urgently amid a major outbreak. Australia is in the grip of a third Omicron wave driven by the highly transmissible new subvariants, BA.4…
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SYDNEY: Thousands of Australians joined raucous protests across the country on Saturday against the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of women’s constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court last week overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, restoring the ability of individual states to ban abortion. In the biggest rally in Australia, around 15,000 women…
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia reported a slight rise in COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, while officials in several states tightened movement curbs and pushed for vaccinations to limit flare-ups of the highly infectious Delta variant. After months in which it had nearly stamped out the virus, Australia is battling the variant in five of its eight states…
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Two Australian states are on COVID-19 alert after an infected woman and her husband travelled from Victoria, the epicentre of country’s latest outbreak, through the states of New South Wales and into Queensland, visiting dozens of sites enroute. Authorities in New South Wales and Queensland are rushing to trace close contacts and…
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced that New Zealand will temporarily suspend the entry for all travellers, including its citizens, from India for about two weeks from 11 April due to a surge in COVID-19 cases among visitors to this country. The ban will begin on Sunday and will remain in place until 28 April, she…
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WELLINGTON/SYDNEY: New Zealand and Australia will create a quarantine and COVID-testing free “travel bubble” from April 19, after effectively eradicating the virus by closing borders last year to stop more infections reaching their shores and stringent lockdowns. The virus has effectively been eradicated in both countries, with minor outbreaks a result of leakage from quarantined…
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Australian authorities issued fresh flood warnings and evacuation orders on Tuesday as torrential rains again pummelled several parts of the country, sweeping away homes, roads, and livestock in the worst downpour in more than half a century, Reuters reported. The national weather agency has posted severe weather warnings in every mainland state or territory but one, affecting…
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(Reuters) – Australia was set on Monday to evacuate thousands of more people from suburbs in Sydney’s west, battered by the worst flooding in 60 years, with torrential rains expected to continue for another day or two. Reuters images showed submerged intersections, marooned livestock and cars up to their windshields in water, out of which…
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Sydney residents are now allowed to invite 10 adults into their homes during the holidays after new coronavirus cases remained in the single digits. Amid a record testing and tracing effort, just eight new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, prompting authorities to announce all residents could have at least some visitors over…