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Former New Zealand Prime Minister refuses to face public questions at Covid-19 inquiry

"These former ministers do not want to sit in a public hearing and answer the hard questions that every New Zealander deserves to know.”

Australia backs WHO global pandemic deal to boost health security

Australia played a key role in shaping the agreement, serving as Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body and representing the Western Pacific region.

Will we have a COVID wave, spike or blip this Christmas? It depends where you live

Estimates suggest XEC has risen from 10% to 60% of circulating SARS-CoV-2 in the past two months.

Inquiry warns distrustful public wouldn’t accept COVID measures in future pandemic

The inquiry examined the health and economic responses; while it did not directly delve into the state responses, it did cover the federal-state interface.

Why are we seeing more pandemics?

Factors such as climate change, biodiversity loss and other global challenges are the ultimate (high level) cause of pandemics.

How eating chilli may help regain sense of taste after COVID

Eating chilli might be useful to provide sensory stimulation to diners when their sense of smell isn’t quite up to scratch.

Cutting COVID isolation and mask mandates will mean more damage to business and health in the long run

Allowing increased transmission will impact the economy by resulting in higher numbers of people affected by long COVID.

Do we care enough about COVID?

More than tolerate: there has been a preparedness to pretend nothing out of the ordinary is happening.

Australia is heading for its third Omicron wave, Here’s what to expect from BA.4 and BA.5

A.4/BA.5 appear to be masters at evading immunity. This increases the chance of reinfection.

We need to brace for a tsunami of long COVID. But we’re not quite sure the best way to treat it

Doctors and researchers have been warning about the growing threat of long COVID, as restrictions ease and case numbers climb.

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