Category: Virus

Western Australia Exits Lockdown Amid Warning They’ll Happen Again Until Vaccinations Increase

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has warned that until more of his state’s residents are vaccinated against coronavirus, lockdowns will remain a “necessary tool” to curb outbreaks. His warning comes despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying on Friday that all state territory leaders had agreed to only use lockdowns as a last resort. More than…


Brisbane Lockdown Extended 24 Hours, Restrictions Remain for 11 Areas

CCP virus restrictions will remain in place for two weeks in parts of Queensland’s southeast and north, although the lockdowns will end for certain local government areas from Friday night. This comes as three new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, were reported on Friday morning….


New Zealand Returns Wellington to Alert Level 1 After Australian COVID

New Zealand’s cabinet has agreed to return the Wellington region to Alert Level 1 after the city was moved to Alert Level 2 when an Australian man travelled there from Sydney while potentially infectious with the Delta variant of the CCP virus. NZ COVID-19 Minister Chris Hipkins said in a press release there had been no…


New Zealand Returns Wellington to Alert Level 1 After Australian COVID-19 Outbreak

New Zealand’s cabinet has agreed to return the Wellington region to Alert Level 1 after the city was moved to Alert Level 2 when an Australian man travelled there from Sydney while potentially infectious with the Delta variant of the CCP virus. NZ COVID-19 Minister Chris Hipkins said in a press release there had been no…


Alice Springs in Central Australia Enters 72 Hour Lockdown

The central Australian town of Alice Springs has entered a 72-hour lockdown as of 1 p.m. local time on June 30 after a mine worker who spent seven hours at the airport infected four family members with the Delta variant of the CCP virus. The mine worker, who contracted the virus while in Brisbane hotel…


Australia’s Deputy PM Fined $200 for Not Wearing Face Mask

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has revealed that he was fined $200 for not wearing a face mask while paying for petrol. Joyce told Sky News on June 29 that he’d simply forgotten to put a mask on while at a Caltex petrol station. “I was on my way to the airport, forgot about putting on…


Scientists Obfuscated Source of COVID-19-Like Virus Stored at Wuhan Lab

News Analysis Shi Zheng-li, the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is the common thread through which many key research projects and gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses are connected. Her work shows a curious pattern of deception tracing through her publications from 2013 to 2020 in which a key source for the coronavirus most closely…


Sydney Lockdown Expands to Entire City, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong

All of Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, and Wollongong will go into lockdown from 6 p.m. Saturday until July 9 amid an evolving CCP virus outbreak in the Australian state. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian called a second press conference on Saturday afternoon, just two hours after she had already fronted the media about the growing…


Sydney Lockdown May Expand to New Areas

New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian will hold a crisis cabinet meeting on Saturday to determine whether further measures will be imposed after another 12 CCP virus cases were recorded in Sydney and new exposure venues have emerged past the established local hotspot areas. Berejiklian foreshadowed an expansion of the seven-day lockdown to other areas…


Widow of John McAfee Says Antivirus Pioneer Wasn’t Suicidal

The widow of antivirus pioneer John McAfee said her husband, who died earlier this week in a Spanish jail, was not suicidal and said the U.S. federal government was responsible. McAfee, 75, died on June 23 hours after a Spanish court ruled that he could be extradited to the U.S. on tax evasion charges. Officials…