From October 1, COVID vaccines will only be free and recommended for those most at risk of serious illness. Some people at lower risk – including healthy adults aged 18–64 – are asked to consider the ...

Australia has 4164 coronavirus cases but the daily rate of increase has slowed down. The number of coronavirus cases in ...

For the past five-and-a-half years, vaccines against SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been free for everyone living in Australia. But that's about to change. From October 1, only ...

A leading epidemiologist has identified two factors driving the surge in Australia’s coronavirus numbers. And she has ...

In a statement released on Friday, the Labor government’s Health Minister Mark Butler blandly noted “an expected festive season wave” of COVID infection and illness. Australian Health Minister Mark ...

A study of 7 million medical records found that in Australia, patients with long COVID are more likely to be women than men, or people aged 40–59 and those living in a high socioeconomic area. They ...

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, with its worldwide lockdowns and border closures, new data has revealed a way of tracking waves of COVID-19, and suggests one staple of pandemic life is ...

One week after the U.S. government amended its recommendations on the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children, Australia has followed suit. On May 27, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control (CDC) ...

On March 11 2020, as COVID continued to spread rapidly around the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a pandemic. More than 7 million people have since died from COVID. The ...