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Australia’s COVID death toll is rising, yet public health measures to reduce transmission such as mask mandates are largely a thing of the past.

There were 42 more Covid-19 fatalities and 6,305 confirmed new cases on Wednesday, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Thursday.

A landmark report reveals that one in six deaths are due to pollution, particularly in lower and middle-income countries.

Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said it was unclear how long delays on elective surgery would last, saying it would be managed on a day-to-day basis.

Experts say there is a lack of political urgency on vaccines and public health plans as deaths rise and winter approaches

‘Mental health needs to be treated on a par with physical health,’ say band members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris

The FDA has opened the public comment period for the agency’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. Epidemiology and global health professor Rafael Meza studies data modeling in disease prevention and cancer risk. David Mendez, who studies smoking cessation and tobacco control policies, is an associate professor of health management and…

One million people should never have to die from another pandemic. Not in America, a country built to do so much better

The number of confirmed new cases rose on Tuesday after five days of steady decreases, and the coronavirus-related death toll was also up, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Wednesday.