COVID-19
How Qld solved mystery clusters
The Sunshine State reported one new locally acquired case on Friday — a historical infection of a nurse who worked ...
Fears after breach at Brisbane hospital
She was identified as being a close contact of a known case and was isolating at the Princess Alexandra Hospital ...
Pub on alert in tourist hot spot
The news comes after a call was made by the health department to cancel Byron Bay Bluesfest after infectious Queenslanders ...
QLD case could be missing link; alert for Melbourne’s west
While Victoria has marked its 35th consecutive day of no new locally acquired cases, the fragments originally detected on Friday ...
Qld reveals fate of COVID lockdown
The three-day shutdown was due to expire at 5pm but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk brought this forward to 12pm today, due ...
QLD lockdown decision; No new NSW COVID cases
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the shutdown would end at midday Thursday ahead of the Easter long weekend. The three-day shutdown ...
France plunged into lockdown chaos
President Emmanuel Macron, who incorrectly labelled the AstraZeneca/Oxford jab as “quasi ineffective” addressed the nation to deliver the new blow ...
NSW records no new COVID-19 cases
The case was recorded after 8pm on Tuesday and was therefore included in Thursday’s numbers.“This is the case acquired in ...
All the virus restrictions in place in Qld
More than 2.5 million people had only been allowed to leave their house for four key reasons since 5pm on ...
All the new virus rules in place in NSW
Byron, Ballina, Tweed and Lismore Shires will be subject to the new restrictions. For people’s homes, the new restrictions will ...
Easter travel in limbo as decision looms
Easter was due to be the first holiday in Australia without border restrictions since the pandemic began, until a worsening ...
Lockdown may lift for Easter as two hospitals plunged into COVID crisis
Ms Palaszczuk said two factors were critical to lockdown lifting: if Queensland continued to see high testing rates and no ...
Qld Health Minister tested for COVID-19
The senior state government cabinet member did not attend the crucial coronavirus update on Wednesday morning, with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk ...
NSW man catches COVID from hen’s; Premier speaks live
The new case is a man in his 20s who was sitting with three friends close to an infected hen’s ...
‘Hens entertainer’ linked to Qld outbreak
The man is linked to the second cluster amid an escalating outbreak in the Sunshine State which added eight locally ...
‘Symptomatic’ Minister forced to isolate
Michael Gunner, 45, took to social media to share the news after his in-laws arrived from Toowoomba at the weekend ...
Qld COVID crisis worsens amid Easter chaos
Greater Brisbane plunged into a three-day lockdown, after a cluster of the highly virulent UK strain emerged in the community.The ...
‘Sold out’: Free vouchers gone within minutes
It comes after previous allocations have been snapped up by holiday-hungry Victorians within just minutes after the Andrews government launched ...
Qld’s ‘confusing’ COVID outbreak mess
Queensland’s COVID-19 outbreak has grown by eight cases overnight, as millions of residents wake to their first day of a ...
New COVID airline rules: How they affect you
QantasAs part of the Australia-New Zealand travel bubble, passengers travelling to Australia are required to present a declaration form upon ...
Why Qld hasn’t gone into lockdown
State government officials called a press conference to announce they had found a likely transmission link that is key to ...
Travel chaos as Brisbane lockdown announced
The northern state will go into a three-day snap lockdown beginning 5pm after four new local cases were reported.Residents will ...
Party blunder: Minister can’t explain how Qld Health got it so wrong
Authorities were forced to back-pedal on Sunday morning, stating that the Strathpine man had only been at home with five ...
Long testing queues; Vic marks 30-day milestone
The Victorian Department of Health on Saturday night issued a statement urging all returned travellers who had visited an exposure ...
One new local virus case in Queensland
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Sunday confirmed the latest case was the brother of the 26-year-old man who tested positive earlier ...
Huge waits for testing amid Qld outbreak
People were being turned away from the Aughtie Walk drive-through clinic in Albert Park this morning after being told there ...
States restrict Queensland travellers
On Saturday, Queensland health authorities detected another case of community transmission linked to a Stafford man who was confirmed to ...
Boris to ease lockdown despite warning
Launching his Conservative party’s campaign for local elections in May, Mr Johnson said his government’s mass vaccination drive and pro-business ...
‘Leave now’: Sign shocks footy crowd
The second round clash between Brisbane and Geelong descended into chaos when the Victorian government issued new advice for people ...
Fears for economy as office worker limits remain
Despite the lifting of the cap on the numbers of workers permitted in offices, many businesses have been unable to ...
