COVID-19

FIFA launches #ReachOut campaign for better mental health

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<p>FIFA has launched #ReachOut, a campaign designed to raise awareness of the symptoms of mental health conditions, encourage people to ...

Updated recommendations for use of the ChAdOx1-S [recombinant] vaccine against COVID-19

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The interim recommendations  for use of the ChAdOx1-S [recombinant] vaccine against COVID-19 (AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 Vaxzevria™, SII COVISHIELD™) have ...

Joint Statement of the Multilateral Leaders Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics, and Diagnostics for Developing Countries following its Second Meeting

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The Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Developing Countries, established by the heads of the International Monetary Fund, World ...

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week

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<p>At the start of this year, governments, donors, civil society and the private sector united to launch the <em>Nutrition for ...

New consortium working to boost vaccine production in South Africa

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<p>The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and the World Health Organization (WHO),&nbsp; Afrigen Biologics (PTY) Limited, the Biologicals and Vaccines Institute ...

Who will get Covid vaccine booster shot

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The nation’s Food and Drug Administration made the announcement on Thursday (local time).“The country has entered yet another wave of ...

Brother of NSW Treasurer fights jab policy

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Jean Claude Perrottet, 24, seconded a motion at the youth wing’s Thursday meeting to oppose “calls for the introduction of ...

One-year-old has Covid; Vic records 21 new cases

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There was also one infection reported in returned travellers on Saturday. It brings the state’s total number of active cases ...

‘Worst day in pandemic’: NSW records 466 cases

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NSW has recorded 466 cases in what is the worst day in the pandemic, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed.Ms ...

NSW records 466 new local cases

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Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the “staggering” numbers, saying about 60 of those cases were in the community while infectious. She ...

‘Lockdown escapee’ sparks SA covid scare

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A 21-year-old man attended the station along Hindley St, in Adelaide’s CBD, on Thursday and told police he had been ...

Premier to provide Covid update amid 15 cases

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Premier Daniel Andrews will provide a coronavirus update at 11am after Victoria recorded 15 new coronavirus cases in the past ...

Qld records 7 new local cases

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Chief health officer Jeannette Young said one of Friday’s new infections was linked to the Japanese language class at St ...

Berejiklian to give Covid update, Qld has 7 new cases

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Chief health officer Jeannette Young said one of Friday’s new infections was linked to the Japanese language class at St ...

New alerts for NSW regions, Sydney bus routes

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NSW Health has issued alerts on new venues of concern across NSW, as well as bus routes in Sydney, linked ...

‘Isolate’: Virus alerts at health facilities

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The Covid-19 case used the shared elevator in a building at 48 Flemington Rd in Parkville – the site of ...

Qld records 10 new local Covid cases

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The 10 new cases are linked to the Indooroopilly cluster. Annastacia Palaszczuk said while the numbers appear high, authorities “were ...

Ardern: What could affect Aus-NZ travel bubble

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Ms Ardern said on Thursday the country would stay the course with its Covid-19 elimination strategy, and that the trans-Tasman ...

$10 million Ute Muster cancelled

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Organisers confirmed the event, which injects more than $10 million into the local economy, would be cancelled for the second ...

‘Do not go’: Qld Premier’s 24-hr warning

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On Monday, the state leader said she would “stop everyone” entering Queensland from the state’s southern neighbour if the outbreak ...

Man allegedly attacks Covid test worker

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An essential healthcare worker was allegedly abused and punched at a testing site at Kissing Point Rd, Dundas, at about ...

Virus epicentre’s urgent vaccine call

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Latest federal government data showed Melbourne’s west had the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rates in Victoria, with many of the suburbs ...

Tradie’s surprising new lockdown venture

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Hilton Harris has turned his passion for apparel into a reality by launching his own urban wear Cuzy T brand ...

Qld records 4 new local Covid cases

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All new cases are linked to the Indooroopilly cluster. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she was “so proud” of Queenslanders for ...

Reality star’s take down on Tones And I

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In a damning post about Australia’s Covid situation and the effects of lockdown, the singer, whose real name is Toni ...

‘Bubbling anger’: Byron Bay case ‘didn’t believe’ in Covid

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The man who travelled to Byron Bay with his two children while infectious with Covid has been accused of not ...

Vaccine clinic’s Pfizer jab ‘error’

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An official South Australian Department for Human Services clinic wrongly expanded access for the Pfizer jab on Monday, with hundreds ...

Qld has 3 cases; Worrying figure in Vic outbreak

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Chief health officer Jeannette Young said the new infections reveal minimal exposure of spread in the community but warned late ...

‘This is stupid’: TV host’s fury over vax

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He told federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday the government was being ‘wishy-washy’, and said it was ‘stupid’ that the ...

Sydney at least 50 days from freedom

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UNSW professor of epidemiology Mary-Louise McLaws made the “grim” prediction while speaking to the Today show, suggesting case numbers have ...