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Two more Australians have died of COVID-19 over the weekend taking the national death toll to 108, while two Melbourne aged care homes have recorded new cases in the double digits. It has also been announced that aged care workers ...

With the recent outbreak of COVID-19 forcing Melbourne back into lockdown for six weeks and parts of NSW on high alert, is it time to ask: were we too quick to open up again? Our neighbours New Zealand this week ...

Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are being forced to work in unsafe working conditions and feel they are being put at risk of catching COVID-19. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers reported today that access to masks ...

This week on The Coronavirus Podcast, host Conor Burke is joined by Professor Michael Ward from the University of Sydney. Michael led a study which posits that COVID-19 may become a seasonal virus, much like the common cold or flu. ...

Have you ever experienced COVID-rage? That is, anger brought on by social distancing or the lack thereof. Like when you go to the shop or a cafe and people seem to have totally forgotten about social distancing and stand right ...

Sunday saw a grim milestone reached as global cases of COVID-19 hit 10 million according to data from Johns Hopkins University. This comes as the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns the end is not in sight and numbers in ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has driven millions of people inside, many jobs in healthcare have not had that luxury. And as health professionals kept calm and carried on, so too did nursing schools across the nation as graduating the current ...

This week host Conor Burke speaks to an infectious disease specialist. Along with virologists, epidemiologists and a few other 'ists', academics who have informed us about the specifics of the coronavirus have become the rockstars of science. Associate Professor Sanjaya ...

Mental health nurses will now be based at a number of police stations across NSW as part of the Government’s response to a growing mental health crisis. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 36 mental health nurses will be placed ...

In Episode 11 of the Coronavirus Podcast we delve into wet markets, asking: what are they, and are they bad for us? Host Conor Burke is joined by Dr Petr Matous, Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering at ...