Other Current Issues - COVID-19

Air pollution may well be making the pandemic worse, but we now have an opportunity to tackle the problem that itself kills 7 million people a year.

Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region compared to the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out.

Sweden's top epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, has admitted his strategy to fight COVID-19 resulted in too many deaths, after persuading his country to avoid a strict lockdown.

South Korea won praise for containing the coronavirus without mass lockdowns but has experienced a setback with its biggest daily infection surge in seven weeks.

Melbourne Water is at the forefront of an innovative COVID-19 sewage sampling project to keep policy makers and health authorities informed.

In a week that saw the worst day on record for new cases, Trump shrugs as experts warn Americans not to follow his lead

Young adults either oblivious or apathetic about social-distancing rules have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in some suburban outbreaks.

The government has identified two cases in which humans had been infected by minks – the only animal-to-human transmissions known since the global outbreak began in China.

Data since start of Covid-19 crisis shows almost 60,000 additional deaths, a fifth higher than usual

Stockholm gambled in its response to coronavirus, but neither its economy nor its healthcare system have collapsed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

New heat maps will for the first time reveal active coronavirus cases by postcode, revealing how many people have the virus, test numbers and recovery rates.

Rising levels of SARS-CoV-2 detected in wastewater before corresponding spike in clinical cases

The long read: Around the world, more than 40 teams are working on a vaccine for Covid-19. We followed one doctor in the most urgent quest of his life

Update: 16 Apr ��
We need to pay close attention to what is happening in Singapore and Japan - after early successes, they are bucking the trend.
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Did you know that around 60 per cent of all infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, as are 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases, in other words they come to us via animals?