COVID-19
Inside trio’s wild quarantine escape
Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services have confirmed the individuals made their escape around 4:40am local time. Police and ...
MPs pull all-nighter over vexed issue
Exhausted MPs were forced to sit through the night to work through more than 80 proposed amendments, with discussions continuing ...
Wyndham demands unvaccinated councillors ‘stand down’
During a last-minute meeting councillors Josh Gilligan, Heather Marcus and Mia Shaw, said unvaxxed councillors posed a serious risk to ...
Sleepless in Spring St and we all suffer
Victoria’s upper house will soon clock up 24 hours in the chamber.They started sitting at 11.30am on Tuesday.More than 17 ...
Victoria records 1179 cases, six deaths
There are now 299 infected Victorians in hospital, with 43 active in intensive care and 18 on a ventilator. A ...
Popular Knox cafe clears up Covid confusion
But The Hatter and the Hare later clarified it was not an exposure site, and customers may have been sent ...
Hadley’s blistering spray at ‘dickhead’ listener
2GB morning host Hadley raised a “hugely insulting” email from a listener on Tuesday morning, who accused Hadley and 2GB ...
Pandemic Bill is battered, bruised and better
In spite of the rallying cries of “Kill the Bill” which have emanated relentlessly from the steps of Parliament House ...
‘All options’: New clue on booster change
Health Minister Greg Hunt and Professor Paul Kelly have asked the vaccine watchdog to assess whether there was any need ...
State orders ‘high-risk’ teachers to get jab
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Tuesday also flagged mandatory vaccine rules for staff at prisons, youth detention centres and airports, while ...
Mum lit fire under bed in quarantine hotel: cops
No one was injured as the intense blaze broke out on the 11th storey of the Pacific Hotel Cairns on ...
Katter reveals reason pub knocked him back
The enigmatic federal MP had scheduled a meeting at the Tamworth Hotel on Sunday but the Member for Kennedy was ...
Victorian prison guard who refused jab dies with Covid
The maximum security officer, a family man, was to lose his job soon under vaccination mandates requiring those who work ...
Hunt’s vaccine plan to tackle omicron
Health Minister Greg Hunt on Monday announced he had tasked the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) with reviewing ...
No more hotel quarantine despite ‘third omicron case’
Mr Perrottet said NSW was still on track for a “very bright summer”.“The pandemic is not over but we need ...
Victoria records 1061 new cases
The latest figures come after Australia slammed its border shut to arrivals from multiple southern African countries, amid increasing concern ...
Public servants’ remote-work deal revealed
As the state officially reaches its 90 per cent double dose milestone, the Victorian government said it was committed to ...
Premier makes big call on virus road map
Health officials have ordered genomic sequencing after two international travellers from southern Africa arrived at Sydney Airport on Saturday tested ...
‘Omicron may already be on our shores’: Hazzard
“This clearly demonstrates that the pandemic is not over. The best thing that we can do is get vaccinated and ...
How to win family passes to Carols By Candlelight
To kick off the fun-filled festivities, the Herald Sun will give away 20 family passes to Vision Australia’s Carols By ...
The Netherlands affirms its position as a leading flexible contributor to WHO
<p><img src="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/2021-dha-images/janeellison_ambpaul-bekkers_nl.jpg?sfvrsn=d02aa26e_7" alt="" sf-size="253469" /></p><p>On 22 November 2021 Paul Bekkers, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United ...
First meeting of Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO)
WHO´s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) held its first meeting yesterday. The meeting was largely ...
FIFA supports World Health Organization 16-day campaign to raise awareness on domestic violence
FIFA and the World Health Organization have teamed up to raise awareness about domestic violence and support those at risk, ...
Australia to shut border over ‘worrying’ Covid strain
Nations have rushed to ban flights from the region after the World Health Organisation on Friday declared the B.1.1.529 strain ...
Australia expected to change travel rules
Health Minister Greg Hunt and chief medical officer Paul Kelly will address Australia at lunchtime following a key meeting with ...
WHO and MPP announce the first transparent, global, non-exclusive licence for a COVID-19 technology
<p>WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today finalized a licensing agreement with the Spanish ...
WHO issues guidelines on the treatment of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19
<p>WHO today issued updated <a href="https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/WHO-2019-nCoV-clinical-2021-2">guidelines</a> on the management of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C).</p><p>MIS-C is ...
Covid super-variant spreads to Europe; more travel bans
The variant – officially labelled Omicron overnight by the World Health Organisation – has 32 mutations, which is twice as ...
Big crowd change for Boxing Day Test, Australian Open
With capacity crowds allowed for the Australia-England showdown, MCG chiefs have decided to remove the five strict zones previously operating ...
Victoria records 1252 coronavirus cases
The latest figures come after the state reached the milestone of 90 per cent of people older than 12 being ...
