COVID-19
Huge hint on Qld border reopening date
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s road map to easing travel restrictions originally flagged December 17 as the target for 80 per cent ...
Andrews govt may allow more scrutiny of pandemic orders
It comes as the Premier faced the prospect of personally negotiating with nine hostile crossbenchers and the opposition to get ...
Covid-19 cases surge in Victoria
The number is hundreds higher than 1007 on Thursday and almost 60 per cent higher than the 797 cases recorded ...
Huge hint on Qld border reopening date
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s road map to easing travel restrictions originally flagged December 17 as the target for 80 per cent ...
Car crash girl made to walk over border
Phoebe Kirk, 20, says she was dropped at a service station at the Queensland border in a taxi and forced ...
All the Covid rule changes for Victorians
From 11.59pm on Thursday night, for Victorians aged 12 and over who are fully vaccinated, no gathering limits, capacity or ...
Netball stalwart sidelined by Covid crisis
Liam and Margaret O’Kelly are among the growing cluster of cases at TLC Forest Lodge Residential Aged Care at Frankston ...
New twist to Aussie international travel bubble coming
The travellers will have to undergo a Covid test when they arrive in Victoria and NSW, as do Aussies who ...
Ballarat secondary college closes after Covid scare
In a statement from Loreto College school principal Michelle Brodrick said the case visited “limited areas” of the school but ...
More deaths linked to aged care home outbreak
Estia Health confirmed that the outbreak at its South Morang home was cleared on Wednesday, and the home was no ...
NT senator’s family riddled with Covid
The Covid-19 outbreak in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory is “our worst fears realised”, Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy ...
Backbench blow-up: Covid powers extension delayed
Mr Perrottet was forced to step in and delay an extension to Covid-19 provisions including the ability for police officers ...
State reacts to neighbour’s Covid outbreak
SA Police issued a brief statement on Tuesday afternoon alongside SA Health, saying the border arrangement is being reviewed in ...
Airline adds $69 flights to new city
The regional airline on Wednesday said it would service Brisbane to Sydney with triple daily flights Monday to Friday, and ...
Positive case visits four supermarkets
Woolworths announced on its website the contractor had visited stores in Burwood East, Hampton, Malvern and South Yarra on November ...
Joint Research Centre and World Health Organization join forces to use behavioural insights for public health
<p>The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded a Collaborative Research Arrangement that aims ...
International organizations, vaccine manufacturers take stock of COVID-19 vaccine roll out, share views for 2022
<p>The heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization held on 9 ...
The Future is Unwritten – Healing Arts Symposium
Symposium presented in partnership with the World Health Organization and The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a “cultural call to ...
Global progress against measles threatened amidst COVID-19 pandemic
While reported measles cases have fallen compared to previous years, progress toward measles elimination continues to decline and the risk ...
New WHO report maps barriers to insulin availability and suggests actions to promote universal access
<p>A <a href="https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789240039100">new report</a> published by WHO in the lead-up to World Diabetes Day highlights the alarming state of global ...
Covid outbreak grows in Frankston aged care
The Leader understands at least nine of the active cases are residents at the Forest Drive centre in the heart ...
‘My tentacles reach far and wide’
Those are the chilling words 2GB host Ben Fordham alleges former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said to a young Channel ...
NSW reports 212 new Covid cases
There are now 210 people in hospital with the virus – 32 in intensive care.The number of new infections reported ...
Protesters’ vile act outside parliament
The protesters jeered when a blow-up replica of the Victorian Premier was placed next to the makeshift gallows on the ...
Five months in a tent on Qld border
The Queensland couple have been living in a tent at the NSW border since winter, blocked from driving back to ...
Covid cluster at Doreen school
According to an update on the state government’s coronavirus website, the school is one of a number of educational facilities ...
Somers Camp, peninsula schools visited by Covid cases
Mount Martha Primary advised families on Sunday that a positive case had attended the school on Wednesday, November 10, Thursday, ...
Major changes to SA’s Covid-19 rules
Premier Steven Marshall has unveiled significant changes to SA’s testing, tracing and isolating measures, to coincide with the state’s borders ...
Sutton’s ‘shocking idea’ contributed to St Basil’s outbreak
A recent report from specialist emergency physician Dr Ian Norton was handed to an inquest into the deaths of residents, ...
Hotel quarantine breacher on the run: cops
Samantha Sullivan, also known as Samantha McNeven, left the Pullman medihotel at about 7.45pm on Saturday night. The 35-year-old arrived ...
