COVID-19

Moving towards digital documentation of COVID-19 status

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<p>Vaccination certificates are nothing new. They are health documents that record a vaccination event – traditionally as a paper card ...

NSW records 1431 new virus cases

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But there was some signs of hope with the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian revealing at least 120,000 more people got ...

Attack dog Miles blasts ScoMo’s ‘pile-on’

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Queensland deputy premier Steven Miles blasted his federal counterparts as the Sunshine State refuses to fall in line on an ...

‘You’ve got me quite upset’: Top doc snaps

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The impassioned delivery from chief health officer Jeannette Young follows a hostile week where the Palaszczuk government defiantly refused to ...

Queensland blasts Morrison’s ‘pile-on’

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Queensland deputy premier Steven Miles blasted his federal counterparts as the Sunshine State refuses to fall in line on an ...

Annastacia ‘abandoned’ by own party

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Ms Palaszczuk has been at the receiving end of a slew of backlash after she withdrew her support for the ...

Palaszczuk’s massive border backflip

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The Premier had faced fierce backlash for locking out the state’s own residents who were attempting to enter from NSW, ...

‘Overseas actor’ planned NSW protests: cops

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NSW Police confirmed to NCA NewsWire that it was likely a foreign actor had organised protests on Tuesday that resulted ...

Covid scare deepens in state with no cases

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They tested positive to the virus in NSW after travelling through the state. SA Health confirmed the driver was not ...

‘Terrible toll’: Shopkeeper’s epic Covid note

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As the country grapples with widespread lockdowns and hostile anti-vaccine protests, the business owner stuck the note to the window ...

Brothel clients’ lame Covid excuses

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Officers were called to a brothel on Monday night at Rydalmere after a call was made to Crime Stoppers about ...

NSW records 1164 new cases, 3 deaths

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More to come. NED-4090-Greater-Sydney-Restrictions-mapNSW Covid Exposure SitesVICTORIA RECORDS 76 NEW CASES AS EXPOSURE SITES SOARVictoria has recorded 76 new locally ...

Major push to mandate Covid-19 jabs

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AMA President Omar Khorshid said he wants vaccinations made mandatory for the health care system and legal protections to make ...

Virgin Australia set to follow Qantas with jabs

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The airline proposes frontline workers should be jabbed by November 15 and administrative staff by March 2022 – bringing them ...

‘We don’t think it’s fair’: Aussies pay more for online parcels

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Data from Australia Post’s latest Inside Australian Online Shopping e-commerce report has found three-in-five people said they would be willing ...

‘I hope your son dies’: Syd man’s alarming Covid claim

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Hussien Taha also made an alarming allegation that one couple, who “don’t believe in corona (sic)”, work for a disability ...

Worker sacked for act on Gladys’s parcel

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The vision was captured inside a CouriersPlease sorting room and emerged on social media over the weekend.It shows the man ...

Virgin reveals new vaccination rule

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The company said it would consult with relevant unions and employees with all frontline crew members expected to be jabbed ...

‘Isolate’: virus alert for Aldi store

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On Sunday, NSW Health issued an updated list of exposure sites.Among them was the Koonoona Park Villawood basketball courts in ...

Two prisons in lockdown over major Covid ‘incident’

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An internal memo sent to staff at Cessnock Correctional Centre, in the Upper Hunter, informed them that a number of ...

Police probe Covid clinic blaze

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At about 10.50pm on Saturday, emergency services responded to reports of a fire at the site on Forrester Road, North ...

Super Sunday push to get sports fans vaccinated

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Victoria has recorded 92 new local cases of Covid-19 on Sunday as residents await an announcement on whether the state’s ...

NSW records 1218 new cases, 6 deaths

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Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the figure on Sunday, and said six people had died from the virus overnight.More to come.VICTORIAN ...

More than 700 million people with untreated hypertension

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<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>World Health Organization and Imperial College London joint press release</strong></p><p>The number of adults aged 30&ndash;79 years with hypertension has increased ...

New jab rule for authorised workers

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The change means rapid antigen testing will no longer be alternative to vaccination, NSW Health said. “In order to work ...

Victoria records 64 new cases

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Of the new infections, 49 were linked to known clusters and 36 were in isolation throughout their infectious period.That means ...

Echuca aged care worker a ‘genuine’ Covid case

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ERH chief executive Nick Bush said the woman is now testing negative “but that is because she has actually now ...

NSW records 1035 cases, antigen testing scrapped

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NSW Health Minister said sadly two more deaths were recorded overnight.The case numbers followed what was NSW’s biggest number of ...

Border breakthrough for NSW-Qld

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Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace said they were keen to “move” the border into Tweed Heads to allow residents to ...

State doubles down on way to freedom

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John Barilaro told the Today show NSW would “start on that pathway” to freedom once the target is hit. “We’re ...