Shocking new twist from Covid in children
Long-term Covid side effects are affecting Aussie kids like Emily Buntine, who went from a straight-A student to being unable to attend school — and she’s not the only one feeling the effects.
COVID NSW
Stay across all the latest developments on COVID-19 outbreaks in NSW.
Revealed: The dodgy RAT brands yanked from sale
Australia’s medical regulator has cracked down on Covid tests with four rapid kit brands already booted from the market.
Hefty price tag for Covid isolation revealed
Premier Dominic Perrottet wants Covid isolation requirements to be scrapped from September, as the economic cost of virus-related absenteeism soars into the hundreds of millions.
Hospitals struggling to cope as Covid cases soar
Hospitals are feeling the strain of the latest surge in coronavirus cases, keeping Covid-positive patients in general wards and shunting sick children between facilities.
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Omicron pioneer ‘pressured’ to exaggerate seriousness
Dr Angelique Coetzee, among the first to identify the milder new Covid variant, reveals to The Daily Telegraph how she was ‘pressured’ by international agencies to overstate the danger
$6b reasons to end Sydney’s cruise ship ban
International borders will be lifted in a fortnight but travellers by sea are still waiting on a decision about when they can set sail.
NSW ICU rates disprove apocalyptic predictions
The relatively low rate of Covid patients in ICU indicates NSW may have dodged the doom and gloom predictions made when the Omicron wave took hold.
‘We’ll kickstart Sydney out of Covid slump’
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet will convene a high-powered roundtable of government, business and community leaders on Friday to kickstart the city’s Covid recovery.
$100 voucher sugar hit for CBD Fridays
Vouchers for food and entertainment, free transport zones and a permanent market are all on the table to reinvigorate the city.
Why Sydney’s 9am-5pm CBD won’t survive
Sydney’s CBD has withered into a bleak wasteland, crushed by lockdowns, border bans and remote working. Here’s how we can fix it.
Sydney CBD on the cusp of an American nightmare
Scenes in LA and San Francisco paint a stark picture about what can happen when lawlessness, homelessness and addiction are allowed to take over a city, in a chilling warning for Sydney’s CBD, James Morrow writes.
Hundreds of millions wasted on dodgy PPE
The NSW government scrambled to boost PPE stockpiles but millions of expired and faulty Covid equipment was thrown out without being used.
Staggering cost of school RATs revealed
The state government has spent a huge amount on rapid antigen tests for school students – but is anyone using them? Vote in our poll.
NSW hospital ICU rates defy forecast
The Omicron wave has not had the expected toll on the state’s hospital system with ICU rates well below the “best case scenario”.
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