More than a News Portal
UK reports 287 deaths with the seven-day total up 45% on the week before; parliament due to vote next week on the issue, which has polarised country
Sajid Javid says Omicron wave of infection will ‘test the limits of finite NHS capacity even more than a typical winter’; India death toll rises by 406
Read more
Scott Morrison announces change to isolation time; South Australia records 2,091 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths; Queensland records 3,118 cases; Australian batsman Travis Head tests positive ahead of fourth Ashes Test; NSW records 21,151 new cases and six deaths; Victoria records 5,919 cases and seven deaths. Follow all today’s news
More positive cases after Sydney lab testing error; ‘sacred’ SCG Ashes Test to go ahead, NSW minister says; Queensland reports 1,158 cases, scraps day five testing requirement after Brad Hazzard criticises ‘tourism testing’; massive demand for testing in NSW blows out wait times as state records 6,062 cases and one death; Victoria records 2,738 Covid cases and four deaths; Tasmania reports 43 cases and the ACT 252 – follow all the latest news
Epidemics of rapidly transmitting viruses are not kind to overstretched healthcare systems
Read more
Omicron has ‘extraordinary spreading capabilities’ and promises to bring a bleak winter, Anthony Fauci warns; Belgian police break up Brussels protest march against Covid measures
Britain on behalf of the G7 says it is “deeply concerned” by the recent rise in cases; Biden warns Omicron could peak in January as states scramble to prepare for overloaded hospitals
Norway to act amid record high infections and hospitalisations; 69-year-old South African president tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday
The Omicron Covid variant is likely to ‘outcompete Delta’ in many, if not all, regions, an infectious disease researcher says; nightclubs in France will be ordered to close for four weeks to counter a Covid surge
Variant detected in 16 US states so far; the threat appears to be less severe than Delta with signals so far ‘a bit encouraging’, Dr Anthony Fauci says