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The Ruby Princess cruise liner was cleared to dock and disembark hundreds of people sick with Covid-19 by NSW Health. Leaked emails seen by Nine publishing shows hundreds of Covid-19 patients on board who were able to enter the Australian community after clearance by NSW Health. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that NSW Health told…
Australian Covid-19 Update on 3/4/2020 PM Scott Morrison said the national lockdown measures to stop the spread of Coronavirus “are working”. “The changes that you are making Australia are working and we need to keep making those changes,” Morrison said. “At the current rate.. if we keep doing what we are doing…right now that trajectory…
The total number of infection cases around the world crossed 1 million. Data from John Hopkins University shows the virus outbreak rapidly spreading across Europe and the United States in March and is beginning to take a foothold among African countries. JHU data showed there were at least 1,011,490 reported instances of infection right now….
China’s wet markets, where the Coronavirus pandemic started, are back open. Despite the Coronavirus unleashing a massive human toll and unfathomable economic pain on billions of people, China still appears to be allowing wet markets – like the one where this pandemic began – to operate. The markets allows the trafficking of wildlife and the…
Australia Flattening the Covid-19 Curve? It appears Australia’s aggressive steps to stop the spread of Covid-19 is starting to work. It’s still early days, however the data is starting to look good in terms of slowing the spread of the Coronavirus. The latest data suggests the growth rate in Covid-19 cases in Australia is much…
Covid crime stats for the start of April. NSW Police are cracking down on people not observing social distancing and extreme lockdown laws in Sydney and New South Wales. One man was fined for ‘eating a kebab’ alone on a park bench, others were fined for sitting in their cars without a reasonable excuse. A…
A woman has been charged after allegedly coughing on people in the Snowy Mountains, in NSW, yesterday. About 9.20am (Wednesday 1 April 2020) a woman was walking south along Sharp Street, Cooma, when she allegedly stepped in front of another woman and intentionally coughed in her direction. The woman allegedly continued to cough at members…
Coronavirus Lamborghini man in Sydney. Police have fined a man after he was allegedly caught speeding in a Lamborghini to a COVID-19 clinic in Sydney’s west. About 6.55pm on Monday 30 March 2020, an officer from the Motorcycle Response Group detected the car allegedly travelling up to 160 km/h in a 90km/h zone on the…
The state of Western Australia is closing its borders to the rest of Australia, with the premier declaring “we will be turning Western Australia into an island within an island. Our own country”. The Premier of the state Mark McGowan, said today from Sunday midnight local time the state will create a “hard border” to…
BREAKING NEWS: The Australian government have announced free childcare for parents. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said childcare will be free for parents who need it during the coronavirus crisis. He says the government will also provide support to 13,000 childcare centres across the country to ensure they remain open. The existing means testing arrangements for…