Thursday: Experts call for better prevention of airborne transmission amid NSW Covid outbreak. Plus: HK pro-democracy newspaper closes
Good morning. Infectious disease specialists have called for greater focus on measures to prevent airborne transmission of coronavirus after the NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, announced that “scarily fleeting” encounters had driven the Sydney cluster involving the highly virulent Delta variant of Covid-19. Contacts of five to 10 seconds – instead of 15 minutes previously – are believed sufficient to spread the virus, prompting tens of thousands of people to abandon school holiday trips amid a raft of border closures and new restrictions.
Nurses in Victoria have slammed the wastage of vital Pfizer doses due to problems with the vaccine booking system that have left staff “very frustrated”. The federal government has announced it will shelve the troubled AstraZeneca vaccine by October, announcing its replacement with Moderna and Pfizer shots as it races to meet its pledge that every Australian will have vaccine access before the end of 2021. Berejiklian also indicated a full lockdown could be in store for Sydney, telling parliament her government would “not hesitate to go further and harder”.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/24/morning-mail-sydney-awakes-to-restrictions-vaccines-wasted-john-mcafee-dead
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