COVID-19

The World Health Organisation has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily...

China has set out urgent plans to protect rural communities from COVID-19 as millions of city-dwellers plan holidays for the first time in years...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has assured that people with a heightened risk of COVID-19 will still be able to get free PCR tests. Under changes...

While many Chinese embrace new-found freedoms after the country dropped key parts of its tough zero-COVID-19 regime, some cities are warning residents to maintain...

Almost two-thirds of Australians believe the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind them despite a new wave of infections and different variants of...

Australians are living longer despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused life expectancy to drop in many of the world's richest nations. Australian Bureau of Statistics...

Australia's COVID-19 response failed the nation's most vulnerable people and in many cases amounted to over-reach, according to a new report. The report - Fault lines:...

Australia's latest COVID-19 data could differ from actual case numbers after some states scrapped mandatory reporting of tests. People in Victoria and NSW are no...

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...

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,...