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Ban on popular benchtops being considered as wave of deadly illness sparks alarm
Artificial stone benchtops are the height of fashion for home renovators but could be outlawed to curb surging silicosis cases.
- by Carrie Fellner
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India’s biggest cities shut down as new virus cases hit 200,000
New Delhi will use hotels and banquet halls to treat coronavirus patients as new infections in the country shot past 200,000 amid a devastating surge.
- by Ashok Sharma
The masks are off, but experts urge Queenslanders to keep them close
Despite south-east Queensland’s mask mandate ending on Thursday, experts are urging people to still use them if they can’t socially distance.
- by Stuart Layt
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Hospitals in crisis
‘It haunts me to this day’: Udita Mittal almost lost her daughter a year before Aishwarya’s death
Ms Mittal says she begged for a blood test to rule out anything serious but doctors refused, arguing it wasn’t the hospital’s protocol to carry out blood tests for every child with an unexplained fever for fewer than three days.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Lauren Pilat
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Coronavirus pandemic
My textbook symptoms of long COVID: crushing fatigue, type 2 diabetes
Speaking from personal experience of suffering COVID-19 and long COVID, the benefits of being vaccinated far outweigh the risks.
- by Michele Nayman
WHO urges against vaccine passports, even for international travel
The World Health Organisation says people should not be required to prove they have been vaccinated in order to travel overseas, warning that vaccine passports would isolate poorer countries.
- by Latika Bourke
Restaurant owners clash with police in Rome COVID-19 lockdown protest
Officers charged demonstrators after they tried to breach a police cordon outside parliament, where a protest was being held about ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.
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Coronavirus pandemic
Sick for the long haul: One third of COVID-19 patients have symptoms for eight months
One in three Australian COVID-19 patients still has symptoms eight months after being infected, and neither age nor a mild bout of the virus is protective, a world-first Australian study suggests.
- by Kate Aubusson
Urgent call for blood donations after 1000 appointments impacted by floods
More than half a day’s supply of blood was not donated in NSW, as floods closed donor centres and appointments were cancelled.
- by Sarah McPhee
Infectious man held party while waiting for COVID-19 results
A Strathpine man hosted 25 people at his house while waiting for his test results, which came back positive. It comes as authorities say the next two days will be “critical”.
- by Stuart Layt
No lockdown yet after man’s COVID-19 infection is linked with cluster
Authorities were scrambling to find how a man was infected with COVID-19. However a possible lockdown still looms.
- by Stuart Layt