The report examining the impact of COVID-19 on tourism in Victoria found visitation to Melbourne’s west shrunk by two-thirds, losing 5.1 million...
Just a few days after the health department warned BA.4/BA.5 was set to become Victoria’s dominant variant and would lead to rising...
Researchers estimate that 19.8 million out of a total of 31.4 million potential deaths were prevented in the first year after vaccines...
The biotechnology company has revealed its paediatric vaccine could be supplied from August, if approved by Australia’s drug watchdog. Officials are trying...
Australia’s vaccine advisory panel could delay a recommendation to expand the Covid booster until a shot better targeting Omicron becomes available. Sub-variants,...
Australia’s vaccine advisory panel could delay a recommendation to expand the Covid booster until a shot better targeting Omicron becomes available. Sub-variants,...
The BA. 4 and BA. 5 Omicron sub-variants have been found in wastewater catchments in Melbourne’s west, east and on the Mornington...
Chief medical officer Paul Kelly said rates of reinfections were expected to rise as not enough of the population had received a...
Wastewater detections of BA.4/BA.5 have more than tripled since late May, rising from 5 to 17 per cent on June 23. It...
Researchers in Brazil tried the unconventional approach on a woman who suffered from a genetic disease that impaired her body’s inflammatory response...
From next July 1 GPs and pharmacies will be required to do the bulk of the state’s Covid jabs, with the number...
The Herald Sun in April exclusively revealed that Mr Weimar, an experienced bureaucrat, would be recruited to the senior job.Mr Weimar, in...
The text message, which is being sent to phones across Victoria, includes a link to a fake Medicare or MyGov site where...
It is “teacher against teacher” at some schools, with teachers who remained in their roles throughout the pandemic expressing outrage that staff...
The “type-2” poliovirus derived from vaccines has been circulating in the city’s sewers between February and May, with the UK Health Security...
Every day so far this month has seen 30,000 new cases or more, according to data from the federal Department of Health...
At the G20 joint finance and health ministers’ meeting overnight, Health Minister Mark Butler and Treasurer Jim Chalmers committed Australia to supporting...
The Omicron BA.5 variant will be the driver for the spike, predicted to hit over the next two months. Chief Public Health...
Speaking just four words an hour increases the spread of Covid 10 times more than just breathing normally, an alarming new study...
But despite Labor leading the call during its time in opposition, Mark Butler now says that’s unlikely to happen until the pandemic...
The researchers, who published their findings in the medical journal The Lancet, revealed just under five per cent of people infected with...
And, the company said its mRNA vaccine production model is so fast it will soon be able to produce, within weeks, vaccines...
Here are the latest updates.UNITED STATES AND CANADAAs of June 12, the CDC no longer required air passengers travelling from a foreign...
From next Friday, the state government’s booster mandate for education, food distribution, meat and seafood processing, and quarantine accommodation employees will be...
Both young women have suffered ongoing debilitating chronic fatigue and brain injury after catching mild cases of Covid-19 in December last year.Together...
The discovery opens the way for trials of potential treatments including an existing drug for epilepsym and provides hope that new treatments...
The agency authorised Moderna’s two-dose vaccine for children aged six months to five years, and three doses of Pfizer’s shots for those...
Professor Nancy Baxter, from University of Melbourne’s school of population and global health, made the admission to Victoria’s pandemic declaration accountability and...
The Omicron sub-variant known as BA.5 originated in South Africa and has taken hold in Australia as well as the US and...
Premiers and chief ministers have called for a 50-50 funding deal to be locked in ahead of Friday’s first meeting in Canberra....