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Medical workers in protective masks wait to administer COVID-19 tests at a facility in Camden, N.J., Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Australia forced into ‘brutal’ decision

Now that Australia appears to have got the coronavirus under control, it faces an even more disturbing choice on how to end the epidemic.

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Modelling shows worst-case scenario for coronavirus spread in Australia.

Warning of ‘explosive resurgence’ of virus

Modelling released by the Morrison Government has provided a reality check for Australians, showing just how bad things could have got.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 02, 2020 shows a handout image released by 10 Downing Street of Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson participating in a national

Johnson breathing without aid in ICU

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has received oxygen treatment in intensive care but is not on a ventilator and remains in “good spirits”.

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Trigger that makes coronavirus lethal

A single, simple way the virus acts could be the difference between a coronavirus patient having mild symptoms and pneumonia.

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An ambulance takes a patient from the cruise ship Coral Princess to the hospital as the ship is docked at the Port of Miami, Florida, on April 4, 2020, after receiving permission from the US Coast Guard. - Two people are confirmed dead due to COVID-19 on the ship. Seven passengers and five crew were confirmed positive on April 2, 2020. There are 1,898 people on the ship; 1,020 passengers and 878 crew. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Cruise passengers trapped on docked ships

Thousands of cruise passengers are stranded in the US after new guidelines banned them from further travel on planes, buses or cars.

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Tom Barnett is the Involuntary Medical Objectors (Vaccination/Flouoride) Party's candidate in the Northern NSW electorate of Richmond.

Anti-vaxxer’s sick virus claims rejected

Experts have addressed claims from a popular anti-vaxxer who said “you can’t catch a virus” and told Australians to ignore social distancing.

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Runners finding it difficult to adhere social distancing advice in a public place, New Farm Park. Photographer: Liam Kidston

New COVID plague infesting Aussie streets

A new plague is sweeping through Australian streets. And it’s a direct result of the coronavirus outbreak impacting the world.

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Nurse Vanesa Hrsto does a practise/mock test on a person, not a patient or suspected of having Covid-19. St Vincents Hospital has set up mobile Coronavirus testing clinic in the Bondi Pavillion. Done in response to help limit the spread of Covid-19. Picture Rohan Kelly

Who can get a virus test in Australia

Many states have changed their guidelines on who can be tested for COVID-19. Check here to see if you are now able to be tested for the virus.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 18: Dawn breaks over Manhattan and Central Park as the city struggles to contain the number of coronavirus cases on March 18, 2020 in New York City. Across the city businesses, schools and places of work have been shutting down leading to empty streets and quiet neighborhoods. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has threatened to call for a 'shelter-in-place' order as Manhattan continues to see a rise in cases of the virus. World wide, 200,000 people have now contracted COVID-19. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Bodies ‘likely’ to be buried in parks

The bodies of coronavirus victims will “likely” be buried in public New York parks as morgues become overwhelmed with corpses.

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Press conference with Australian Government Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Three people in their 30s on ventilators

Three people in their 30s with no pre-existing conditions are on ventilators in NSW in what health officials are calling a virus “wake up call”.

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Why you shouldn’t wear gloves to shop

You’ve probably noticed people wearing gloves at the supermarket. Now a surgeon has made a video explaining why that’s a bad idea.

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Animal advocacy group PETA has created a puzzle for the Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Group makes cheeky virus puzzle for PM

PETA has waded into the isolation debate saying Scott Morrison might enjoy a puzzle they’ve created showing animals who’ve carried zoonotic viruses.

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A person illegally trains on gym apparatus at Ormond foreshore in Melbourne, Sunday, April 5, 2020. Victoria's first weekend since harsher social distancing laws were implemented will start with a ban on all but the most basic outdoor activities. (AAP Image/Michael Dodge) NO ARCHIVING

Man jumps fence to defy outdoor gym ban

Despite strict rules in place to combat the spread of coronavirus, one man in Melbourne didn’t let the new measures get in the way of his workout.

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Wife plays wedding song as husband dies

This New York woman watched her husband die from the other side of the screen, but not before she played him a nostalgic song.

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A researcher works on virus replication in order to development a vaccine against the coronavirus Covid-19, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on March 26, 2020. - The Ministry of Health convened The Technological Vaccine Center of the Federal University of Minas Gerais laboratory to conduct research on the coronavirus COVID-19 in order to diagnose, test and develop a vaccine. (Photo by Douglas MAGNO / AFP)

Coronavirus vaccine ‘not a certainty’

Everyone is holding out for a vaccine for coronavirus, but we may never get one warns an infectious diseases expert.

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NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller speaks to the media during a press conference at the Police Force Media Unit in Sydney, Sunday, April 5, 2020. A criminal investigation will be conducted to determine if the cruise company Carnival Australia breached national biosecurity laws in the Ruby Princess fiasco. (AAP Image/Brendon Thorne) NO ARCHIVING

’Significant amount of deaths’ investigated

The NSW police commissioner has announced a criminal investigations in the disastrous Ruby Princess saga after new allegations.

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Doctor’s grim answer to simple question

A doctor who has contracted COVID-19 has given a stomach-churning answer to a simple question about the virus.

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This undated photo provided by Marya Sherron shows Kious Kelly. Kelly, an Emergency Room nurse at the Mount Sinai West Hospital in New York, died Tuesday, March 24, 2020, after a bout with the new coronavirus. He worked at the same hospital where three nurses, frustrated at the scarcity of supplies, posted pictures of themselves on social media wearing makeshift garbage bag protective gowns. (Marya Sherron via AP)

Nurse’s heartbreaking final text to sister

New York nurse Kious Jordan Kelly died this week after contracting coronavirus. Now, his sister has shared his heartbreaking final text messages.

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People wearing face-masks line up to buy supplies from a shop during the coronavirus outbreak in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, April 4, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Common item could kill virus

A Melbourne-based study has shown that a common household item used to treat headlice could be able to kill the virus in its tracks.

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One of the many rats roaming the streets of Sydney in search of food and pictured outside Central Station on the Thursday 02nd of April 2020. Picture: Christian Gilles

COVID-19 leads to rat explosion

Rats are on the rise in the open as COVID-19 eats into their supply of takeaway castoffs leading to them fighting for your rubbish.

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‘Could die’: Grim warning for young people

Young people have been told to not be COVID-19 complacent with a warning they could be one of the “unlucky ones” who are fit and well but still end up in ICU.

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TOPSHOT - A municipal worker puts a protective face mask to a woman to prevent the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19, before she visits a market, in Caracas, on March 15, 2020. (Photo by CRISTIAN HERNANDEZ / AFP)

All your coronavirus questions answered

There is a lot of confusion as governments scramble to contain the pandemic. Here are all your coronavirus questions with the simplest answers.

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Contagious cruise ship Ruby Princess struck down by Coronavirus motors slowly off Wollongong today Friday, April 3/2020. (The Australian/Simon Bullard)

Bombshell email in cruise ship debacle

A chain of emails exchanged between NSW Health and the senior physician aboard the Ruby Princess show the department knew of COVID-19 risk on the ship, before allowing it to dock in Sydney.

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This photo taken on February 8, 2020 shows a vendor selling bats at the Tomohon Extreme Meat market on Sulawesi island, as business is booming and curious tourists keep arriving to check out exotic fare that enrages animal rights activists. - Bats, rats and snakes are still being sold at an Indonesian market known for its 'extreme' wildlife offerings, despite calls to take them off the menu over fears of COVID-19 coronavirus link. (Photo by Ronny Adolof Buol / AFP)

PM says wet markets are a ‘real problem’

Wet markets, where COVID-19 is thought to have originated, have been labelled a “real problem” and “risk to health” by the PM.

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Medical staff check traveller's temperature while disembarking upon arrival at the Jorge Chavez international airport in Callao, Lima on March 16, 2020, on the last flight from the US before borders are closed. - On March 15, 2020, President Martin Vizcarra announced a State of Emergency and a two-week nationwide home-stay curfew together with the closure of all borders on account of the coronarvirus, COVID-19, pandemia declared by the United Nations World Health Organization. Peru’s

The most common coronavirus symptom

By now most people have an idea of some of the signs of COVID-19, but there is one main symptom that 88 per cent of patients experience.

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A couple holds hands while wearing gloves as they walks in South Beach, Miami, amid fears over the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on April 1, 2020. - Americans were told on March 31 to brace for

How long virus survives on surfaces

Researchers have figured out how long coronavirus can survive on surfaces – and the one reason why wearing gloves is a bad idea.

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Volunteers from the International Christian relief organization Samaritans Purse set up an Emergency Field Hospital for patients suffering from the coronavirus in Central Park across Fifth Avenue from Mt. Sinai Hospital on March 31, 2020 in New York. - The number of deaths in the United States from coronavirus has surpassed those reported by China, where the pandemic began in December, according to a toll published on March 31, 2020 by Johns Hopkins University. There have been 3,415 deaths in the US from the virus, the Baltimore-based university said, more than the 3,309 reported officially in China. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)

10m Americans file for unemployment

Ten million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits as the nation continues to struggle amid the coronavirus crisis.

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Frontline COVID-19 healthcare hero workers like Karlee Robson is an infectious diseases nurse based in Royal Melbourne Hospital's Infectious Disease ward, dealing all day with COVID-19 cases. Karlee dressed in full PPE holds a mask to pump humidified oxygen to a patient. Picture: David Caird

‘I’m terrified for Australia’, expert says

An Aussie scientist based in the US has said coronavirus cases could explode in Australia and we are currently at just the “tip of the iceberg”.

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Table that shows government measures plotted against new infection numbers.

How long to know restrictions work

Aussies are being hit with new virus restrictions daily. But there is a significant lag time between putting the measures in place and knowing if they work.

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Bali based WA health coach and Instagram influence Jessica Pinili

Quarantined influencer slams critics

An Aussie Instagram influencer in luxury hotel quarantine after returning from Bali has hit back at critics who called her a “princess”.

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