A focus on case numbers was very important when we knew nothing about this virus and whether our hospital system would be able to cope. A lot has changed since then. Increasingly we need to look beyond just the case numbers to know what our future holds. How we can keep safe and how we get our lives back in a COVID world.
Trying to ensure travellers in Australia are vaccinated against COVID-19 will hinder the sector in the short term, but is inevitable in the long term, a tourism expert says.The Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania wants its state government to consider a requirement that visitors to the state be fully vaccinated. Curtin University tourism expert Dr Mingming Cheng said it was a likely path for all governments.
A focus on case numbers was very important when we knew nothing about this virus and whether our hospital system would be able to cope. A lot has changed since then. Increasingly we need to look beyond just the case numbers to know what our future holds. How we can keep safe and how we get our lives back in a COVID world.
The volunteers manning Lifeline’s crisis hotline have noticed an interesting trend — an increase in first-time callers who say they’ve never felt the need to use the service before. Some are timid and unsure about whether they should be calling the crisis line, others apologetic; heavy with the knowledge that many others are also suffering right now.