COVID-19

PM reacts to Slater’s attack as India rescue flight date revealed

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Slater, a former champion Australian cricketer, said Mr Morrison had “blood on his hands” over the government’s refusal to allow ...

Push to axe hotel quarantine boss

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Opposition leader Michael O’Brien on Thursday said there hadn’t been enough sackings in hotel quarantine. “There should be a lot ...

Australia’s $9bn ‘elephant in the room’

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The federal government’s tough travel ban on India is the latest temporary restriction aimed at quashing the threat of overseas ...

What pushed Australia’s hotel quarantine to brink?

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Data obtained by The Daily Telegraph shows in the month to April 29, there were 469 cases of COVID-19 among ...

Victorians fleeing in record numbers

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Australia Bureau of Statistics figures reveal thousands of Victorians made the move interstate last year leading to the state’s biggest ...

What really sparked third Melbourne lockdown

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Senior Andrews government bureaucrat Matiu Bush has also been stood down in the wake of the documents obtained by The ...

New Aus-NZ travel bubble insurance risk

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The average cost of a single comprehensive travel insurance policy for a 14-day trip across the ditch was $113 — ...

ScoMo says India travel ban not racist

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From Monday, people who have been in India within the previous fortnight before their intended arrival in Australia will face ...

10 things you must know about COVID-19 jab rollout

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The fast-tracked phase 2a is part of the government’s bid to reset the rollout — which has faced criticism for ...

Top doctor‘s fury over ’hopeless system’

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Australian Medical Association WA president Andrew Miller said he did not have confidence in the system and has also labelled ...

Medical chief refuses to be drawn on COVID timeline

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Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said the rollout was “progressing significantly”, according to The Australian.The remarks came in response to ...

10 things Victorians need to know about COVID jab rollout

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The fast-tracked phase 2a is part of the government’s bid to reset the rollout — which has faced criticism for ...

Explainer: Britain’s ‘traffic light’ travel rules

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his medical advisers are “confident” the current coronavirus case data means they can push ...

Britain’s ‘traffic light’ travel rules

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his medical advisers are “confident” the current coronavirus case data means they can push ...

Public servants refuse to return to the office

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The Sunday Herald Sun can reveal just 57 per cent of the state’s 50,000-strong public service are back in the ...

‘Serious concerns’ over India travel ban

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From Monday, people who have been in India within the previous fortnight before their intended arrival in Australia will face ...

India hospital fire kills COVID patients as toll soars

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There were around 50 other patients at the four-storey hospital in Bharuch in the western state of Gujarat when the ...

Quarantine bungle put guests at risk of HIV

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Health officials took action in October last year amid concerns that finger pricking devices used to check the levels of ...

Travel bubble ‘potentially breached’

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The Western Australian health department confirmed the woman, from the Cook Islands, was meant to quarantine at a hotel in ...

Jail threat for India travel ban breaches

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The move, to be taken under the Biosecurity Act by Health Minister Greg Hunt, is being taken on the advice ...

How far behind Australia’s vaccine rollout really is

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Just 707,000 doses of the vaccine were due to be delivered to the nation’s medicines watchdog for safety checks this ...

MasterChef star’s fight to feed India’s poor

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The father of one, who migrated to Australia from India less than five years ago, said he was touched by ...

Why Pfizer vaccines are being tossed in the bin

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Insiders working in the program have warned of multiple issues that mean clinics are regularly under or oversupplied, sparking a ...

400 exposed to COVID in airport bungle

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Two transiting passengers from Papua New Guinea unintentionally spent two hours in the green zone on Thursday morning before they ...

PM responds to India travel loophole

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Scott Morrison said his government moved swiftly to stop one of the loopholes in Qatar after Aussie cricketers Adam Zampa ...

PM to slam shut loopholes as India turns to black market

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Parnell Palme McGuinness, a communications specialist, made the remarks in response to an emotional please from an audience member, who ...

Mates mourn blood clot victim but no evidence yet of vaccine link

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Darren “Misso” Missen, 55, from Tamworth, reportedly died from blood clots at the local hospital eight days after he received ...

State gov’t plan for new quarantine facility

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Acting premier James Merlino today confirmed the government had selected a site at Donnybrook Rd, Mickleham, he hoped would be ...

India’s grim COVID toll as travel loophole exposed

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Infection and death rates are soaring in the vast country of 1.3 billion, in contrast with the United States and ...

Where over 50s can get COVID vaccine right now

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There are more than 100 GP respiratory clinics around the country where you can make an appointment.From May 17, people ...