COVID-19

2 remain in hospital isolation in Nauru

The group are passengers from two flights on Sunday 24 April and Thursday 26 April. Since arriving into Nauru, testing was conducted on all passengers while in hotel quarantine where traces of the Covid-19 virus was detected in some passengers.

A statement said this resulted in isolating the positive cases at the hospital’s Acute Covid Unit (ACU) negative pressure ward and the quarantine time for the remaining passengers deemed as close contacts was extended.

How Covid-scarred Shanghai will finally exit lockdown

So they've ordered a mass clean-up - an army of people disinfecting thousands of compounds and residential areas aiming to eradicate the virus.

Then China's financial capital will open up, but it will be gradual, tentative, cautious.

The brutal "war" against Omicron has left a scarred city. People as old as 100 were among those who tested positive and were taken to quarantine centres. There were very few exceptions.

Covid-19 reveals gaps in Kiribati's health care system

Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation, is leading the initiative which is responding to the Omicron outbreak that started in February.

Kiribati has recorded more than 3000 cases and 13 Covid-related deaths.

Medical coordinator Alison Jones said they're identifying gaps in the health care system.

Nauru records Covid case in quarantine

The positive result was detected during testing in a government-managed quarantine facility on Monday evening.

The case is the fourth reported for Nauru.  

President Lionel Aingimea announced this morning that the person displayed mild symptoms of fever but otherwise stable and well.

This is the only active case today.

All previous cases have recovered and are no longer active.

The person travelled on the Sunday 24 April flight from Brisbane to Nauru has been in quarantine since then. This is the only case detected from Sunday’s flight.

Shanghai lockdown: Whole communities relocated in anti-Covid drive

An official notice from local Communist Party officials in an area in the north of the city details orders to transfer residents to quarantine facilities more than 100 miles (160km) away.

The plan is to move people from their homes in Pingwang to the neighbouring province of Zhejiang, where they will stay for at least a week. Young children, the elderly and those with disabilities could be excluded, according to the notice.

New South Wales records 1 million Covid-19 cases in just over two months

The unofficial number might have reached that milestone even sooner.

NSW Health yesterday recorded 15,683 new Covid cases, taking the state's tally to over 2m since the start of the pandemic.

It's an official number, but the actual number of cases is probably far higher.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said on Wednesday - shortly before he contracted the virus - that cases were estimated to be under-reported by about 50 percent owing to people not being symptomatic or not reporting mild cases.

Movement restricted at Nauru hospital

The cases are now in containment at the acute ward negative pressure unit.

Nauru Media News reports frontline officers at the front gate are screening everyone going to the hospital.

The protocol covers all visitors, staff and outpatients.

The public has been advised to cooperate with the frontline team in order for the screening operation to run smooth and everyone can continue with their business in the hospital.

Covid-19: Nine new symptoms added to official list

The move comes more than two years into the pandemic, and just days after free testing ended in England.

However, the NHS cautions that many of the new symptoms "are very similar" to those for colds and flu.

The original signs of a Covid infection that were recognised in the UK were:

Shanghai lockdown: Economy shaken by zero-Covid measures

But in recent days the usually bustling financial centre has been stopped in its tracks after a spike in coronavirus cases.

With little notice, officials imposed two staggered waves of lockdowns on the city's more than 26m residents. The eastern side of Shanghai has just been through four days of tight restrictions. The western part began its four-day isolation on 1 April.

The latest round of quarantining is China's largest since the coronavirus outbreak was first identified in Wuhan at the end of 2019.

Nauru conducts Covid community tests

The teams will carry out community testing with Nauru Police tomorrow.

Frontline workers at the airport were the first group to undergo community testing Tuesday.

A statement said testing stations will be set-up at the Government Office next week for the public service.

The public is encouraged to make time available time to attend the testing station that is applicable to you.