COVID-19
No new cases as QR code blunder slows tracing
No new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Victoria on Thursday, following almost 22,000 tests on Wednesday.There has been one ...
Virgin‘s massive change to travel
The airline had planned to start flying to countries in the Pacific, such as Fiji and Indonesia, from September.But a ...
Train services added to COVID alert list
The state’s health department revealed the new additions to the growing list of 12 exposure sites late on Tuesday night.The ...
New border rules after Vic virus case
Other jurisdictions were quick to slap down new rules on Victorian travellers after a shock new case was revealed on ...
When NSW restrictions could ease
A man aged in his 50s and his wife, from Sydney’s eastern suburbs, became the first community transmitted cases of ...
COVID vaccine and quarantine boost: What’s next
This will cover the 170 million doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines the government has already ordered.But the virus ...
Long queues at testing centres amid latest COVID scare
No new local cases of COVID-19 were detected in Victoria on Tuesday, the Department of Health has confirmed.One interstate case, ...
Sailor jumps overboard off Melbourne: cops
The 31-year-old Georgian national was found by the Victoria Police air wing clinging to a navigational marker about 5km from ...
‘Wake up call’: Top doc’s Sydney warning
A man aged in his 50s and his wife became the first locally-acquired cases of the virus in NSW in ...
Fears over India variant, travel ban challenge blow
The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 first found in India last October might also have some ...
Travel perk plan for Aussies who get COVID jab
A record 402,000 COVID-19 vaccines were administered across the nation last week, as the government faced pressure to reveal when ...
Vic quarantine staffer on leave due to ‘breach’
CQV’s director of Infection Prevention and Control, Giulietta Pontivivo, has taken leave, The Australian reported on Monday.It comes after her ...
When you’ll be able to get COVID jab from chemist
The Herald Sun understands the first jabs in pharmacies are expected in coming months but no date has been set, ...
NZ travel bubble reopens to Sydney
The bubble was put back in place from 11.59pm Sunday, with the first flights touching down on Monday morning.Direct flights ...
Twist as Sydney’s ‘BBQ man’ identified
Investment company Apollo Global Management managing director Tom Pizzey has been identified by the Australian Financial Review as the man ...
‘Unrecognised’ transmission still in Sydney
“(The local case’s) contact with the infectious person must have been very fleeting,” chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant told ...
Aussies back mandatory jabs as plans to lift borders revealed
The joint study by the University of Sydney and University of Western Australia revealed that 70 per cent of those ...
Overseas arrivals test positive to COVID despite being vaccinated
“In the four weeks ending 1 May 2021, six (3%) overseas acquired COVID-19 cases self-reported being fully vaccinated prior to ...
WHO approves China’s COVID vaccine
The WHO has already given emergency use listing to the vaccines being made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, and ...
Saddling up for post-COVID world record
After COVID-19 last year forced fans away from the Spring Carnival, the state government has been asked to lift crowd ...
Britain reveals ‘green traffic light’ countries
The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced the list of green areas — and it is very short.COUNTRIES THAT GOT THE ...
Australian dies in India after contracting COVID
Ms Ralhan told SBS that her father, 59, died after contracting coronavirus, three days after the federal government enacted a ...
State eases more COVID restrictions
From May 28, small to medium-sized venues will be able to have up to 200 people per space without any ...
India flight start date confirmed as COVID positive Aussies left behind
Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed on Friday the government’s controversial India travel ban will be lifted on May 15, allowing ...
Intruder breaches Melbourne COVID hotel
Police are investigating after the attempted burglary at the Intercontinental Hotel on Collins Street on Saturday after a man was ...
Gladys ‘pleased’ with COVID numbers
The planned news conference will reveal whether Sydney’s coronavirus outbreak has spread further after an eastern suburbs couple tested positive ...
States tighten borders after NSW outbreak
The rest of Australia has been watching the situation in NSW closely after an eastern suburbs couple both tested positive ...
42,000 on COVID alert after new case
NSW Health said trace amounts of the virus that causes COVID-19 had been found in the Marrickville Sewage Network. The ...
Urgent virus alert for Woolies, chemist
A man in his 50s from Sydney’s eastern suburbs tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, and contact tracing alerts from ...
Top minister in COVID isolation
Dominic Perrottet returned a negative COVID-19 test but remained in isolation nonetheless, following his government’s guidelines.Mr Perrottet dined at the ...
