Health by Evin Priest 22nd Apr 2021 12:37 PM NSW Health officials are scrambling to contact a number of returned travellers they fear could have been exposed to the South African variant of COVID-19 in a quarantine hotel in Sydney. Contact tracers are trying to determine whether there was a transmission of the South African strain of COVID-19 inside the Mercure Hotel in Sydney after three returned travellers who stayed in adjacent rooms tested positive. An individual traveller and a family of two, all staying on the 10th floor of the Mercure Hotel on George St in Sydney s CBD, tested positive during quarantine.
Health by Angie Raphael 21st Apr 2021 6:11 PM Health authorities are scrambling to trace the possible transmission of the South African strain of COVID-19 after three returned travellers who stayed at a Sydney hotel became infected. Genomic testing shows they each share the same viral sequence for the B1.351 variant. The travellers entered Australia on April 3 on the same flight and stayed in adjacent rooms at the Mercure Hotel on George Street in Sydney s CBD. The Mercure Hotel on George Street. All three people, two of whom are members of the same family, tested negative on their day-two swabs in hotel quarantine, before subsequently testing positive for COVID-19 later during their quarantine periods, NSW Health said in a statement on Wednesday.
Australia suspends travel bubble with New Zealand Australia is suspending its travel bubble with NZ for at least 72 hours effective immediately over a “significant” concern.
Travel by Angie Raphael 26th Jan 2021 9:23 AM Australia is immediately suspending its green zone travel bubble with New Zealand for at least 72 hours out of an abundance of caution over a highly infectious strain of COVID-19. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the federal government had received advice from the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee of a significant case of concern in New Zealand regarding the South African variant. The possibility that that may lead to a transmission event, and out of an abundance of caution, the AHPPC has recommended to the government … that there should be a suspension, he told reporters on Monday.
New Covid Strain Could Be Deadlier: UK PM Boris Johnson
The new Coronavirus strain was already classified as a more highly-transmissible variant but its risk level was so far not believed to be any greater than the original strain. PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-23T08:32:54+05:30 New Covid Strain Could Be Deadlier: UK PM Boris Johnson outlookindia.com 2021-01-23T08:36:25+05:30
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Adding to the piling concerns around the threat of new Coronavirus strain, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday said early evidence suggests that the new variant of coronavirus is deadlier than the previous one.
He said the new Covid-19 strain that was detected in England towards the end of last year may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.
Mutant strain up to 90 per cent more deadly The new mutant strain of coronavirus is between 30 and 90 per cent more deadly than the old one but vaccines will still work, UK scientists say.
Health by Natasha Clark and Nick McDermott, The Sun 23rd Jan 2021 8:15 AM The new mutant strain of coronavirus is between 30 and 90 per cent more deadly than the old one but vaccines will still work, UK scientists say. The revelation came as Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the nation there is evidence more people are dying than before - as the government s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the new dominant COVID-19 variant was obviously of concern .