COVID-19
FIFA launches #ReachOut campaign for better mental health
<p>FIFA has launched #ReachOut, a campaign designed to raise awareness of the symptoms of mental health conditions, encourage people to ...
Updated recommendations for use of the ChAdOx1-S [recombinant] vaccine against COVID-19
The interim recommendations for use of the ChAdOx1-S [recombinant] vaccine against COVID-19 (AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 Vaxzevria™, SII COVISHIELD™) have ...
Joint Statement of the Multilateral Leaders Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics, and Diagnostics for Developing Countries following its Second Meeting
The Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Developing Countries, established by the heads of the International Monetary Fund, World ...
Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week
<p>At the start of this year, governments, donors, civil society and the private sector united to launch the <em>Nutrition for ...
New consortium working to boost vaccine production in South Africa
<p>The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), Afrigen Biologics (PTY) Limited, the Biologicals and Vaccines Institute ...
NSW records 466 new local cases
Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the “staggering” numbers, saying about 60 of those cases were in the community while infectious. She ...
Who will get Covid vaccine booster shot
The nation’s Food and Drug Administration made the announcement on Thursday (local time).“The country has entered yet another wave of ...
Brother of NSW Treasurer fights jab policy
Jean Claude Perrottet, 24, seconded a motion at the youth wing’s Thursday meeting to oppose “calls for the introduction of ...
One-year-old has Covid; Vic records 21 new cases
There was also one infection reported in returned travellers on Saturday. It brings the state’s total number of active cases ...
‘Worst day in pandemic’: NSW records 466 cases
NSW has recorded 466 cases in what is the worst day in the pandemic, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed.Ms ...
‘Lockdown escapee’ sparks SA covid scare
A 21-year-old man attended the station along Hindley St, in Adelaide’s CBD, on Thursday and told police he had been ...
Premier to provide Covid update amid 15 cases
Premier Daniel Andrews will provide a coronavirus update at 11am after Victoria recorded 15 new coronavirus cases in the past ...
Qld records 7 new local cases
Chief health officer Jeannette Young said one of Friday’s new infections was linked to the Japanese language class at St ...
Berejiklian to give Covid update, Qld has 7 new cases
Chief health officer Jeannette Young said one of Friday’s new infections was linked to the Japanese language class at St ...
New alerts for NSW regions, Sydney bus routes
NSW Health has issued alerts on new venues of concern across NSW, as well as bus routes in Sydney, linked ...
‘Isolate’: Virus alerts at health facilities
The Covid-19 case used the shared elevator in a building at 48 Flemington Rd in Parkville – the site of ...
Qld records 10 new local Covid cases
The 10 new cases are linked to the Indooroopilly cluster. Annastacia Palaszczuk said while the numbers appear high, authorities “were ...
Ardern: What could affect Aus-NZ travel bubble
Ms Ardern said on Thursday the country would stay the course with its Covid-19 elimination strategy, and that the trans-Tasman ...
$10 million Ute Muster cancelled
Organisers confirmed the event, which injects more than $10 million into the local economy, would be cancelled for the second ...
‘Do not go’: Qld Premier’s 24-hr warning
On Monday, the state leader said she would “stop everyone” entering Queensland from the state’s southern neighbour if the outbreak ...
Qld records 4 new local Covid cases
All new cases are linked to the Indooroopilly cluster. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she was “so proud” of Queenslanders for ...
Reality star’s take down on Tones And I
In a damning post about Australia’s Covid situation and the effects of lockdown, the singer, whose real name is Toni ...
Man allegedly attacks Covid test worker
An essential healthcare worker was allegedly abused and punched at a testing site at Kissing Point Rd, Dundas, at about ...
Virus epicentre’s urgent vaccine call
Latest federal government data showed Melbourne’s west had the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rates in Victoria, with many of the suburbs ...
Tradie’s surprising new lockdown venture
Hilton Harris has turned his passion for apparel into a reality by launching his own urban wear Cuzy T brand ...
‘Bubbling anger’: Byron Bay case ‘didn’t believe’ in Covid
The man who travelled to Byron Bay with his two children while infectious with Covid has been accused of not ...
‘This is stupid’: TV host’s fury over vax
He told federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday the government was being ‘wishy-washy’, and said it was ‘stupid’ that the ...
Sydney at least 50 days from freedom
UNSW professor of epidemiology Mary-Louise McLaws made the “grim” prediction while speaking to the Today show, suggesting case numbers have ...
Vaccine clinic’s Pfizer jab ‘error’
An official South Australian Department for Human Services clinic wrongly expanded access for the Pfizer jab on Monday, with hundreds ...
Qld has 3 cases; Worrying figure in Vic outbreak
Chief health officer Jeannette Young said the new infections reveal minimal exposure of spread in the community but warned late ...
