COVID-19
State’s huge COVID fine total revealed
Annual crime statistics data released on Thursday morning has showed 37,505 fines had been handed out by Victoria Police for ...
Quarantine-free travel to NZ to start within weeks
A NZ Cabinet committee is reportedly discussing the proposal and a decision could be made by early next week, according ...
PM: Jobkeeper ‘has done its job’
The number of Australians employed increased by 89,000 between January and February, to reach just over 13 million.The unemployment rate ...
Push to slap public servants with return to office order
Mr Tehan has been under fire from Acting Premier James Merlino and Lord Mayor Sally Capp for excluding Melbourne from ...
Resort rejects hotel quarantine pitch
Pearson Aviation – a sister company of International Aviation Alliance – hosts flight schools at the Mildura Airport, with its ...
Meltdown as GPs buckle under COVID jab demand
Six million Aussies are now able to make an appointment to get a COVID-19 vaccine from a general practitioner as ...
‘Unrealistic’: GPs slam government over vaccine chaos
The first 1,100 GP practices allowed to dispense the vaccines were inundated with calls from people trying to book appointments ...
Still no return date for international flights
When asked on Thursday about easing further restrictions and returning travellers, Mr Merlino said the government wanted advice from public ...
No new cases, QLD issues virus warning
Two active cases remain, with nearly 21,500 swabs received on Wednesday.Meanwhile, Queensland health authorities will delay providing the AstraZeneca vaccine ...
Canavan calls to halt AstraZeneca jabs
The backbencher has claimed it is “time” to follow some European countries, who have temporarily paused use of the AstraZeneca ...
Brisbane lockdowns to continue
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the cluster linked to the Hotel Grand Chancellor, which includes two returned travellers and a doctor ...
NSW ‘may never find link’ to outbreak
“We have to accept we may never find the link … similar to the Avalon cluster: we still don’t know,” ...
White House calls on Trump to publicly back COVID jab
President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, noted that all other living former presidents, including Democrat Barack Obama and Republican ...
Gladys’s border demand after case
Ms Berejiklian issued the blunt demand while addressing the media on Tuesday, saying there’s “no reason” for borders to close.“It’s ...
Expert’s blunt vaccine warning
A 47-year-old man who works as a security guard on weekends at the Sofitel Wentworth and Mantra at Haymarket tested ...
Fears virus spreading through hotel again
Genomic sequencing has confirmed two returning travellers staying on the same floor at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Spring Hill, ...
Six new cases, virus spreading again within Grand Chancellor
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said none of the new cases were located in the Hotel Grand Chancellor. There are currently 38 ...
Tense border wait as other states sweat on results
The health department revealed on Sunday night areas of NSW could be redesignated as red or orange zones as further ...
’More cases possible’ after NSW outbreak
On Monday, the premier addressed reporters and announced that only one locally acquired case was recorded overnight – marking the ...
Qld quarantine hotel goes into lockdown
The case is “likely historic” which was “really good news”, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said in a press conference.The positive case ...
Macca’s, gym and pub on urgent virus alert
The doctor tested positive to COVID-19 on Friday afternoon after assessing two coronavirus patients known to have the UK variant ...
NSW records first virus case in 55 days
Urgent contact tracing is underway after NSW Health revealed “a person who works at two Sydney hotels which provide hotel ...
High risk areas named after doctor’s positive
Princess Alexandra Hospital was put into lockdown on Friday immediately after the doctor tested positive.It has been revealed, doctor, who ...
Vic to remain open to Qld; new case in NSW
Mr Merlino said the message from Queensland’s health team was that they were “confident they got on top of this ...
QLD hospital in lockdown after doctor tests positive to COVID
The junior doctor at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in the inner-city suburb of Woolloongabba had contact with COVID-19 positive patients ...
No new cases, city office blocks empty as workers stay home
Meanwhile, Melbourne office towers remain largely empty, with about a third of workers back to their pre-pandemic desks.More workers are ...
Mega cost of Victoria’s hotel quarantine uncovered
For the first time the total spend on the currently suspended program has been detailed in the state government’s 2020-21 ...
Worrying virus warning for 62 Qld suburbs
Coronavirus fragments were detected at the Bundaberg and Gibson Island plants, which cover a total of 62 suburbs.The state’s chief ...
Aussies trial COVID vaccine pill
Not only would it eliminate the need for a painful jab, it could be stored at room temperature making it ...
Biden reveals next COVID vaccine plan
Mr Biden’s address comes 50 days into his presidency and exactly a year after the World Health Organisation first declared ...
