What’s on in Issue 050?

Have we reached the peak yet?

Almost two months into a confusing series of local lockdowns across Sydney, with NSW cases soaring and the infections, having already invaded Victoria, rapidly spreading across the state and the national capital, the state government was finally forced to implement a total lockdown on the weekend.

Victoria ‘Partnerships’ with CALD community leaders rewarded

Professor Ben Cowie, an infectious diseases physician with the Department of Health, says a hiring spree of bi-cultural workers, the enlistment of “community vaccine champions” and funding towards cultural groups has improved the cut-through of COVID-19 messaging.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved provisional use of a fourth COVID-19 vaccine, developed by Moderna, which is already in use across much of the world. With Moderna to soon provide enough vaccine doses for 5 million Australians, here are some of your most common ones answered.

• NSW entered state-wide lockdown
• Curfew and extended lockdown confirmed in Melbourne
• Local manufacture mRNA plan
• Online COVID vaccines translations updating
• 1M Pfizer vaccine doses from Poland
• Youngs urged to get vaccinated

Worldwide COVID news