From our hard-working friends at AAP: Defence minister Peter Dutton insists the quarantine system will be able to cope when the travel ban lifts and flights from India resume. The first plane load of Australians from India will land on Saturday morning after flights were suspended for several weeks to allow the Howard Springs quarantine … Read more
Conditions inside some housing lived in by people vulnerable to coronavirus are “utterly shameful,” according to former government adviser, Dame Louise Casey. A BBC News investigation found people shielding in homes with frequent leaks, widespread damp and even rodents living in a kitchen ceiling. The government says reducing the number of households in temporary accommodation … Read more
Danya Keene, PhD, assistant professor, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT. Emily Benfer, JD, visiting law professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Kathryn Leifheit, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Pew Research Center: “Financial and health impacts of COVID-19 vary … Read more
By Andy Mukherjee It took a pandemic and a lockdown to highlight the precarious existence of the country’s blue-collar workers. Left without jobs and shelter, an estimated 30 million — roughly a fifth of the urban labor force — have gone back to their villages, with many completing long, hazardous journeys on foot when trains … Read more