Health
New virus variants underline need for strong public health measures – Sydney Morning Herald
The emergence of a more contagious variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 underlines a need to maintain strong border defences, experts say.
Moves to stop flights from South Africa and Britain would probably only delay the entry of the new variants by a couple of weeks, given they were spreading rapidly around the globe, Associate Professor Kamradt-Scott said.
The Australian Open is to be played in Melbourne next month, with hundreds of international tennis players and officials due to arrive from next week to begin 14 days of quarantine.
Associate Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott.
Associate Professor Kamradt-Scott said any “mass gathering…
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