Australia appears to have avoided the winter surge in COVID-19 cases seen in previous years, according to a recent report. Federal surveillance data shows 64,357 COVID-19 cases have been reported so ...

Recent weeks have seen successive rises in reported COVID infection numbers across Australia, with figures in some states indicating virus levels not seen since early 2023. The growing wave of COVID, ...

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

Health authorities in several Australian states have recommended the return of masks amid a spike in COVID-19 cases leading ...

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 ...

Many Australians have stopped worrying about respiratory viruses. The pandemic has passed and attention has shifted. COVID no longer dominates the headlines, and influenza is often dismissed as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...