COVID-19

How Qld solved mystery clusters

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Michael Gunner, 45, took to social media to share the news after his in-laws arrived from Toowoomba at the weekend ...

‘Sold out’: Free vouchers gone within minutes

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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

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Queensland’s COVID-19 outbreak has grown by eight cases overnight, as millions of residents wake to their first day of a ...

Qld COVID crisis worsens amid Easter chaos

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Greater Brisbane plunged into a three-day lockdown, after a cluster of the highly virulent UK strain emerged in the community.The ...

New COVID airline rules: How they affect you

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Despite the lifting of the cap on the numbers of workers permitted in offices, many businesses have been unable to ...