COVID-19
Victoria records 8275 cases, seven Covid deaths
There are now 638 infected people in Victorian hospitals, with 72 in intensive care and 26 on ventilators.Victoria’s pre-Omicron peak ...
Covid-19 cases drop but 43 die in NSW, Vic, Qld
New South Wales recorded its lowest number of infections since Christmas, while Victoria case numbers continued a steady fall and ...
Qld weighs up drastic Covid response
There are 726 people with the virus being treated in hospital and 47 in intensive care.The Omicron wave has had ...
Masks to remain compulsory in the workplace
Masks will remain mandatory in workplace settings for the foreseeable future, despite mounting pressure from business leaders and the Victorian ...
Parents get early access to $250 vouchers
The NSW government has decided to bring forward the scheme by a month.Under the scheme, every household with a child ...
$14m cash injection for school camps hit by Covid
There were 7893 new infections in the latest 24-hour reporting period – the lowest daily total since December 28.The state ...
NSW records another big drop in Covid cases
Saturday’s update from NSW Health revealed another 18 people have died with Covid-19, while 2337 patients were in hospital with ...
Experts ‘confident’ Victoria has reached its Omicron peak
Victoria’s hospitalisation rate plummets to its lowest point – 687 – since January 7 this year. “It’s a great trend,” ...
Shock number of kids who got Covid in last week
Health authorities had predicted that case numbers would spike as students made their long awaited return to the classroom last ...
Meet the next generation of nurses
Universities have reported a spike in the number of people choosing to study nursing — split between school leavers with ...
Reason for shocking death toll in Victoria
The state had 7810 new cases on Saturday with a shocking 41 deaths reported.It is the highest death toll in ...
Qld’s Covid death toll rises as cases fall
Of the fatalities, three had received their booster and nine were in aged care. Deaths in aged care in Queensland ...
No rules for private parties
Naomi Oakley, who runs U-Nome security and has been in the industry for more than 20 years, said requests for ...
St Basil’s bosses’ fight to stay silent
Former St Basil’s Home for the Aged chairman Kon Kontis and nursing director Vesna “Vicky” Kos were ordered to testify ...
80 Covid deaths, 28K cases in NSW, Vic and Qld
There were 10,698 new infections recorded in the latest 24-hour reporting period.That’s about 2000 fewer cases than the previous day’s ...
Victoria records 11,240 cases, 36 Covid deaths
There are now 707 infected people in Victorian hospitals, with 79 in intensive care and 29 on ventilators.Victoria’s pre-Omicron peak ...
Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems
Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain ...
World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: WHO calls for equitable health services for all
<p>To mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (WNTDD) , the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on everyone, to rally ...
Celebrating World NTD Day: make every day a neglected tropical diseases day
<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) kicked off this year’s commemoration of World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day under the theme ...
The country that won’t vaccinate kids
Despite Sweden recording 39,070 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, and with limited testing, the country’s health officials have decreed ...
PM’s huge hint on who is fully vaxxed
But the Prime Minister has insisted whether a change is made “doesn’t matter” either way because his government does not ...
Woolies announces big change on RATs
Hundreds of thousands of new kits are now available in stores across the country and further stock is expected to ...
Top doctor’s grim warning on Covid deaths
Paul Kelly is pleading with elderly Australian to get their booster shots.Professor Kelly’s comments come as pressure piled on Health ...
ScoMo’s huge call about WA border
WA was originally slated to reopen its border to other states on February 5, but last month Mr McGowan announced ...
Hint that Victoria will lift hospital ban
The potential change was revealed in a letter to doctors from Ramsay Health state manager Austin Willis that detailed that ...
50 million RATs to be locally manufactured
Rapid antigen tests will be locally manufactured in Victoria, the state government has announced. Lumos Diagnostics — who make RATs ...
SA issues vaccine mandate to fireys
On Wednesday, there were 1723 new infections and one death reported, which increased by 457 cases from Tuesday’s figures.But Premier ...
Young child among 16 Qld Covid deaths
Chief health officer Dr John Gerrard said the child had a very serious and rare underlying inherited medical condition. The ...
NSW records 27 deaths, 11,807 cases
There are now 2622 people with the virus in hospital, 170 of which are in intensive care, down from 2749 ...
Queensland cases drop, 10 more deaths
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk reported 7588 new infections during her morning press conference in Brisbane’s south, a figure down from Monday’s ...
