COVID-19
Big change with booster rollout
A spokeswoman from the Department of Health confirmed the extra doses would be sent out to providers after the nation’s ...
Cop’s minor victory in Covid jab fight
Senior Constable Ben Falconer has asked for a judicial review challenging the validity of health directions that require police officers ...
Backpackers new focus in WA outbreak
Authorities are looking closely at anyone who attended the Old Fire Station Backpackers in Fremantle or the My Oz Experience ...
Melbourne family stranded at airport after Covid test bungle
Mark Donnelly, his husband Robert, and their two adopted children Mitchell and Caleb, left Melbourne on Wednesday and arrived in ...
Victoria records 2108 new cases
There have also been six deaths recorded on Christmas Day.The state also has 361 people in hospital while 71 are ...
Omicron cases rise, health warning for Carols event
Twenty seven new cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in Victoria. It brings the total number of confirmed ...
Omicron dials up Christmas Eve chaos
The prospect of a last-minute shopping rush, bumper-to-bumper-traffic and forecast rain is usually enough to ratchet up Christmas Eve stress ...
Map: Sydney’s west hit hard as surge gathers pace
Latest NSW Health data shows the City of Sydney has experienced the largest daily jump in infection numbers with active ...
Huge change to Covid boosters
Health Minister Greg Hunt announced on Friday the government would bring forward boosters from five months to four months from ...
Grim warning as Qld cases surge
The state recorded 589 new infections on Christmas Eve, a 60 per cent leap on the 369 the day before, ...
New Aussie booster jab rules: How it affects you
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?Health Minister Greg Hunt just announced the recommended timing of the Covid-19 booster shot has been brought forward ...
’Spreading the virus is necessary’
But far from panicking over the rise, chief health officer Dr John Gerrard says the spread is “essential” and “necessary” ...
State’s highest ever daily cases recorded
The island state reported 26 new infections on Thursday, bringing the total number of active cases to 52.Currently, only one ...
Lockdown ruled out, but indoor mask mandate returns
Mask rules have returned just days before Christmas, after Victoria recorded a spike in Covid cases overnight.From 11.59pm Thursday, masks ...
NSW has 5715 cases, Vic has 2005, Qld 369
There are now 347 people in hospital with the virus, with 45 of those in intensive care.There were 160,471 tests ...
Interstate test rules ‘stop us beating Covid’: Top doc
Kilometre-long queues have plagued Covid testing sites in recent days as holiday makers clog up lines to get a PCR ...
Call for change to vaccine rollout
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday said ramping up the state-run clinics, many of which have closed, would be key ...
Unvaxxed may be billed Covid medical expenses
The NSW government is said to be considering the radical change to treatment for those who haven’t been jabbed as ...
New rules in Qld after 186 cases
There were 186 new Covid cases recorded ahead of Wednesday’s emergency meeting of national cabinet – a new daily record ...
NSW records 3763 new Covid-19 cases
Two people died with the virus in the 24 hours to 8pm on Tuesday.There are now 302 people in hospital ...
‘Out of control’: Worst queues in Sydney
It comes after a week of spiralling case numbers as interstate borders opened, with South Australia and New South Wales ...
Seven-day warning as NSW cases surge
The state broke the record for most daily infections across the country on Tuesday with 3057 new cases and two ...
EXPLAINED: World’s next Covid jab could be Aussie game-changer
Nuvaxovid on Monday became the fifth jab to be approved by the EU for adults in the fight against Covid-19. ...
Sign vaccination rate will be high among children
New data to be released on Tuesday shows 95.12 per cent of five-year-olds are fully vaccinated against diseases including tetanus, ...
Covid testing chaos across Australia
At Adelaide’s Victoria Park, waiting times are stretching up to eight hours with some people arriving before midnight.South Australians vented ...
1245 new cases in Victoria; NSW smashes record again
Six more Victorians died following their diagnosis in the past 24 hours.There are 392 people in Victorian hospital with the ...
2501 cases; Delayed tests cause Christmas doubt
The state recorded 2501 new infections and no new deaths after 2566 infections were recorded on Sunday. The number of ...
2500 cases a day but mainly unvaxxed in ICU
The state posted 2501 new Covid-19 cases on Monday and hit its highest daily number of infections in the pandemic ...
Desperate plea for mask rules in NSW
With the state smashing Covid-19 records daily and the tally for the past five days rising to more than 10,000 ...
Omicron fears spark mass travel panic
As a new survey reveals nearly three-quarters of Australians are wavering on their Christmas travel plans amid a surge of ...
