TENNIS: Novak Djokovic arrived in Australia on Tuesday, almost a year after his expulsion from the country for lack of being vaccinated against Covid-19 “No, I haven’t forgotten anything”… Novak Djokovic was on the verge of singing Charles Aznavour on Thursday, for his first press conference in Australia, almost a year after his expulsion from the country in worldview. The Serb […]
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TOURISM CRISIS: Some 800,000 tickets to remote areas will be offered from April to boost tourism in Australia Nearly a million Australians will be able to fly at half price to discover the huge island-continent as part of a government plan to boost domestic tourism. An announcement that comes at a time when international borders remain closed due to the coronavirus […]
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EPIDEMIC: The European Commission has not raised any objection to this decision by Italy to block the export of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine A first in the European Union. Rome has blocked the export to Australia of doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus Covid-19 vaccine produced on European soil. This is the first application of a control mechanism put in place by […]
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SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook has blocked some news content in Australia to protest a bill to force the social network to pay media In retaliation against a bill that intends to force the social network to pay for media in Australia, Facebook has blocked access to many news contents in the country. A decision that angered the Australian government on Thursday. As of […]
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AT HOME: The confinement measures in Melbourne are nevertheless relaxed, especially for single people Australian authorities extended the confinement of Melbourne, the second-largest city in the country, by two weeks on Sunday, considering the drop in the number of new cases of coronavirus insufficient. Victoria Prime Minister Daniel Andrews has announced that Melbourne’s strict six-week lockdown, which was due to end next weekend, is […]
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PROTEST: The anti-restriction rally was promoted on social media among groups with coronavirus conspiracy theories Australian police announced that they arrested dozens of demonstrators in Melbourne this Saturday against official coronavirus restrictions in several cities across the country. Ignoring official warnings and public health regulations, several hundred people gathered for an illegal demonstration in Melbourne, the second-largest city of Australia. The rally had been […]
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PREVENTION: Australia announced on Tuesday that it had secured the “promising” coronavirus vaccine hat the pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca is developing with the University of Oxford Australia should make the vaccination of its population against the coronavirus “compulsory”, except for medical exemption, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday. The Conservative leader announced on Tuesday that […]
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DETECTION: To date, the digital tracking app similar to StopCovid has identified only one “contact case”, namely a person potentially infected with the coronavirus Countries around the world are developing digital plotting applications. Supposed to stem the Covid-19 epidemic, these apps do not necessarily keep their promises. In Australia, the COVIDSafe application, launched at the end of April, has so far […]
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Qantas will stand down 20,000 staff for the next two months as the coronavirus pandemic continues to have a ‘devastating impact’ on the travel industry. The airline said in a statement to the ASX that it was also cutting scheduled international flights for the same period from late March until May. It comes in the […]
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SURF: Poeti Norac went to live her passion of surfing in Australia The French Surf Federation has announced, in agreement with the family of Poeti Norac, the death of the young French surfer (24 years old) during the first weekend of February on the Sunshine Coast. The circumstances of her death, however, were not disclosed. Leaving to live in Australia several months […]
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