Tag COVID 19
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Police clamping down on PIN infringements across the Richmond PD
Police say that have issued infringements for alleged breaches of Public Health Orders and licensing regulations during a three-day licencing operation in the Richmond Police District over the weekend.
4 hours ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Planet Watch: Are humans the disease?
Humans have told a lot of stories about how awesome we are, but there's one emerging hypothesis that casts our species in a very anti-heroic light. In terms of the planet, are we behaving like a disease?
6 days ago | David Lowe | 10 -
Exploring the risks of illegal dwellings
The Byron Shire and the Northern Rivers are well known for their abundent range of illegal dwellings, additions, and converted garages.
12 days ago | Aslan Shand | 0 -
Falls Festival 2020 cancelled
Falls Festival management has announced the festival will not be going ahead in 2020.
26 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Lismore survey shows community suffering from border closure
Lismore council have been conducting an online survey about the restrictions which has seen the New South Wales/Queensland border closed.
26 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Two Lismore pubs fined over breaches of COVID-19 Public Health Orders
Two Lismore venues have been issued $5,000 fines following non-compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Orders.
27 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 -
The WHO COVID-19 mythbusters
The amount and type of Mythbusters on the World Health Organisation’s website would be hysterical if the situation weren’t so deadly serious.
28 days ago | Eve Jeffery | 2 -
Latest COVID-19 stats for New South Wales and Queensland
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) statistics and news from the New South Wales and Queensland.
28 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Emergency alert issued for Brisbane suburbs
Emergency alerts from Queensland Health have been issued for residents in multiple suburbs in the south, south-east and south-west of Brisbane.
29 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Sydney couple fined for border breach in truck
A Sydney couple, travelling in a truck, have been fined more than $9,000 after allegedly sneaking across the Queensland border before being intercepted by police.
August 21, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Parties work together on border bubble relief
The challenging issues surrounding the ‘border bubble’ are causing a lot of confusion and in some cases, headache and heartache for residents in the Tweed area
August 21, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Will it be movie studios for Ballina and COVID Safe shooting for the region?
The idea of making the Ballina – Byron region the next place for movies to be shot and produced is gathering momentum with the latest feasibility study for the idea soon to be underway.
August 19, 2020 | Aslan Shand | 5 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Annastacia’s borderline disorder
Queensland is closed. Annastacia is showing us she knows how to deliver some serious borderline discipline.
August 18, 2020 | Mandy Nolan | 15 -
Up Wilsons Creek without $1,000 after illegal doof
A Wilsons Creek man has been fined $1,000 after hosting a doof last month that had up to 1,500 more guests than the current health restrictions allow.
August 17, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 12 -
Ray of hope for medical care across border
After an outcry from Northern NSW, the Queensland Government has decided to water down extreme quarantine restrictions that saw patients on both sides of the border being denied lifesaving care.
August 14, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Ted Noffs Foundation warns of mental health ‘wave’
A wave of substance abuse issues and mental health problems could overwhelm health and social services after COVID-19, unless free and accessible treatment options for vulnerable young people are expanded, warns expert.
August 14, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Voluntary lockdown and getting ahead of the curve
A Byron Bay aged care centre has gone into voluntary lockdown as a precautionary measure to protect residents and staff from COVID-19.
August 14, 2020 | Paul Bibby | 0 -
Should all states adopt Queensland’s measures for aged care?
With residents in aged care facilities making up the vast majority of overall deaths from COVID-19, is it time that we turned our attention to focus more on how we can stop the virus killing our elders?
August 12, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Latest COVID-19 health update for NSW & QLD
Ten new cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in the 24 hours to 8pm Saturday night, bringing the total number of cases in NSW to 3,672.
August 11, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Queensland border: who and where, can and can’t
With restrictions and border lines changing almost daily, you could be forgiven for being confused about who can and can't cross the border from New South Wales into Queensland and what postcodes are considered border towns.
August 10, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Tweed Cr: ‘travellers from hotspots, stay away’
Tweed Councillor James Owen says that with the COVID-19 situation worsening, he is calling on travellers from Sydney hotspots to stay away from the Tweed Shire.
July 28, 2020 | Eve Jeffery | 1 -
Border restrictions expanded for NSW hotspots
Police say that cross-border commuters are being requested to update their border declaration passes following the announcement of a new COVID-19 hotspot in New South Wales from today.
July 27, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Thus Spake Mungo: sweet COVID relief
We would never dream of accusing Scott Morrison of being relieved by the onset of the second wave of COVID-19, but nonetheless it has postponed a nagging problem for him.
July 27, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 28 -
Two new COVID-19 cases at Byron Central Hospital
With the rest of the country keeping a close eye on the health situation in Victoria, local health workers are counting to test people who suspect they might have coronavirus, with two people testing positive in Byron.
July 26, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 9 -
JobKeeper and JobSeeker extended to March 2021
While the COVID-19 health regulations vacillate from state to state and the business sector rides the rollercoaster of openings and closures, the debate over JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments continues.
July 21, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 3
