INDIA NEWS
June 16-30, 2022 - Vol 2, Issue 23
3rd monkeypox case detected in NSW doctor with symptoms, reports Xinhua news agency. It followed the state's first two cases, a man returning from Europe on May 20, and a man travelling from the state of Queensland. NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said the three existing cases had not been linked by state contact tracers.
Sydney, June 3 (IANS): Health authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) have detected the third case of monkeypox in a man who has
The man in his 50s developed mild symptoms several days after arriving in Sydney, and was tested for monkeypox after visiting his
"Monkeypox does not present a transmission risk to the general community, and has until recently not been an infection most clinicians in NSW would have been looking for or concerned about in their patients," Chant said on June 3. In the past monkeypox has been endemic in parts of Africa, but since May has been spreading globally, primarily in Europe.
The Prime Minister met with a Tamil asylum seeker family who returned to central Queensland after more than four years in immigration detention. Priya Nadaraja and her family could personally thank Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for their safe and legal return to Biloela. The Nadesalingams are still to be given permanent residency, but PM Albanese sees "no impediment" to that. Anthony Albanese had taken his senior cabinet to regional Queensland last week in Gladstone and met with the Nadesalingams, who arrived in Biloela on Friday afternoon. Priya, Nades and their two Australian-born daughters,
Kopika and Tharnicaa, are presently living in the central Queensland town on bridging visas granted by the new Labor government. After Labor won the election the family was granted bridging visas, allowing them to return to Biloela. Nades Murugappan and his wife, Priya, married in Australia after arriving in the country by boat and in 2014 settled in Biloela where their daughters were born. In March 2018 the Australian Border Force (ABF) removed the family from Biloela after Priya's visa expired and Nades' claim of refugee status was rejected. They have spent the last four years in detention in Melbourne, on Christmas Island
recently returned from Europe.
NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA
Australia reports record flu cases in May Of those, 47,860, or 54 per cent,
were reported in the two weeks leading up to June 5 as winter set in, reports Xinhua news agency.
Canberra, June 12 (IANS) Australia has reported a record 65,770 flu cases in May, which marked an increase of more than 100 per cent from the previous record set in May 2019, authorities said on Sunday. As of June 5, 87,989 total influenza cases have been logged in Australia in 2022, according to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS).
"From mid-April 2022, the weekly number of notifications of laboratory-confirmed influenza reported in Australia has exceeded the five year average," the NNDSS update said. There have been 27 influenzaassociated deaths in Australia in 2022 and 733 cases have been treated in hospital, 6 per cent of whom were admitted directly to intensive care. Experts have warned that, with restrictions now lifted, Australia is facing an influenza resurgence over winter which, paired with a spike in Covid cases, could put significant pressure on the health system.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Biloella family and most recently in Perth, amid ongoing court challenges to any move to deport them. "The effect of my intervention enables the family to return to Biloela, where they can reside lawfully in the community on bridging visas while they work towards the resolution of their immigration status, in accordance with Australian law," Treasurer Jim Chalmers said in a statement.
"This government remains committed to Operation Sovereign Borders and keeping people smugglers out of business." The coalition had ruled out move to allow the family to stay in Australia despite
the children being born in the country, arguing that doing so would encourage more arrivals to the country by boat. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had said soon after winning the elections that he believed "you can have strong borders without being weak on humanity". "These two young girls were born here in Australia. Nades is a meat worker in Biloela. We struggle to get people who are meat workers. We import temporary labor into our meat works," he had said back then. "And they want, the community want, this family back to Biloela. And that would be an entirely appropriate outcome."
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