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Health care workers have experienced physical and mental health side effects because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Common mental health conditions include PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), depression, anxiety disorders, and stress disorders. [64] These mental side effects caused difficulties amongst health care workers not only during the ...
These include local public health units, but exclude Primary Health Networks (which are funded directly by the federal government). Additional costs to public health services relating to the COVID-19 pandemic receive additional contributions under the National Partnership Agreement on COVID-19 Response (NPA).
In 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and to assist people in isolation and encourage Australia's economic recovery, supplementary payments were added to the basic welfare payments. An additional A$550 per fortnight 'Coronavirus Supplement' was paid, originally only for six months, starting on 27 April and finishing on 24 September 2020.
On 27 September 2021, an estimated 50 frontline health care workers rallied in Melbourne Park to protest against state premier Daniel Andrews' decision to make vaccination mandatory within the health care sector. The protesters were seen taking precautions to keep the possible spread of COVID-19 to a minimum, such as social distancing and ...
COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020; Philippines. Bayanihan to Heal as One Act; ... Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act – April 2020;
On 15 May, South Australia became the second jurisdiction, after the ACT, to be free of any active cases; [99] however, on 26 May, a woman returning from overseas who was granted exemption into South Australia from her hotel quarantine in Victoria tested positive for COVID-19.
The general COVID-19 vaccination in Australia program began on 22 February 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of vaccinating all willing people in Australia before 2022. Front-line workers [ a ] and aged care staff and residents had priority for being inoculated, before a gradual phased release to less-vulnerable and lower ...
The 2021 event went ahead on 11–13 June, with interstate patron numbers limited by the organisers. Some local Indigenous groups did not attend due to caution over COVID-19. [42] In 2020 the Finke Desert Race was cancelled, for the first time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This cost the economy of Alice Springs about A$8 million.