COVID 19

The federal health minister does not expect summer to bring with it the steep spike in COVID cases that was experienced last year. While isolation requirements

Passengers and crew on the first major cruise liner to visit Western Australia since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have tested positive for the virus.

New Zealand is dismantling the legislative framework for most of its COVID-19 restrictions, but keeping its seven-day isolation and limited mask-wearing provisions as cases

When COVID-19 hit Australia, the country's top health bureaucrats were bracing for something big - but even they were yet to grasp the enormity of the looming crisis.

Australians who test positive to COVID-19 will no longer have to isolate, with mandatory stay-at-home orders officially scrapped. The changes took effect on

Long COVID clinics across the country are being inundated with requests for assessments from patients struggling with ongoing symptoms, an inquiry has heard.

Western Sydney residents endured an unequal lockdown imposed by the NSW government during the COVID-19 Delta outbreak, a report has found. People from Sydney's

Victoria's "white elephant" quarantine facility will close within days as Australia's COVID-19 pandemic response continues to wind down. The

National cabinet's call to scrap the compulsory isolation period for people with COVID-19 is "100 per cent the right decision", NSW's premier says.

The scrapping of COVID-19 isolation rules has come too soon after a string of major events that could lead to a spike in infections, doctors say. The head of

COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to fall across the country as experts question the utility of weekly virus data dumps. The federal health department released

Canada is set to drop its vaccine requirement for people entering the country while Japan will also loosen border curbs as the World Health Organisation warns about a decline

The medicines regulator has given provisional approval to a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster for children aged five to 11. However the Therapeutic Goods Administration

Clinical trials of a locally made nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 are set to begin in Victoria. The heparin spray, made at Monash University's Medicines

Commuters in NSW and South Australia will no longer legally have to wear masks on public transport, as Victoria ramps up compliance on its networks. The NSW

More than 100 fines have been issued on Victorian public transport and in excess of 181,000 warnings given as part of a COVID-19 mask compliance crackdown so far this September.

Public health experts are increasingly optimistic the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight. The World Health Organisation has advised the pandemic could

Two COVID-19 antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organisation on the basis that Omicron and the variant's latest offshoots have almost certainly

At the height of COVID-19 the daily case numbers became popular viewing and reading, but in a sign the pandemic is easing, Australians will have to wait a week for the next

COVID-19 vaccines are more effective in males while females are more likely to experience negative side effects from their first jab, a new report shows. Australian