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How is RT-PCR used to diagnose COVID-19?
It’s fast, reliable and full of lines – but might look different to the PCR you learned about in school.
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Berry bright future
At 25, Sarah Montgomery has her feet planted firmly on the ground and her hands deep in the soil....
Hue and cry
Seeing and hearing all the kicking and screaming about our right to choose to not put on masks takes...
Face masks
I was just wondering if anyone has the answer to this question:
If face masks have the ability to contain...
Comedic paranoia
Despite Peter Olsen’s limitless comedic ability, perhaps it’s time for The Echo to curtail his paranoid multi conspiracy theories...
White poles
In amongst the various existential threats that we are confronted with today, we now have the white poles debacle...
Wise practice
For all the travels of the world, cultural habits are slow to share.
The Japanese sneeze and cough into...
Stories about "Ferry Reserve":
Councillors hold firm on Bruns holiday parks
Applause erupted in the council chamber gallery on Thursday as councillors unanimously voted to request amendments to the Ferry Reserve Plan of Management.
Bruns Holiday parks
Dave Kolb, Brunswick Heads
The Crown Trust managers of our parks at Brunswick Heads are unsuitable managers of public parkland and here is why.
Recent statements...
Two Bruns parks PoMs to go before public
Despite at times heated debate between councillors and the gallery, the Greens with other councillor support voted on Thursday to support two plans of...
Local News
Queensland passes voluntary assisted dying laws
Dying with Dignity NSW has welcomed the passage of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) laws in Queensland and is hoping that NSW Parliament resumes next month so that this issue can be addressed in NSW without further delay.
Byron Echo
A moment of your life?
Six questions for Jehovah’s Witness doorknockers:
1. Are you aware that the 2016 Royal Commission into Institutional Handling of Child Sexual Abuse investigated 1006 alleged...
Local News
Local mum features in documentary about the impacts and possible solutions around suicide
Eve Jeffery - 0
Murwillumbah mum Ursula has lived every parents worst nightmare – her child, at the age of just 17, took his own life – and a lot of time and energy, questions and conjecture and finger-pointing can rumble around this, but at the end of the day Ursula’s precious boy is gone and he’s not coming back.
Letters
The Greens and Ballina Council
With the Greens announcing their intention to contest the Ballina Shire local government election to be held in December this year, we can only...
