Four subway lines in the locked-down Chinese metropolis of Shanghai will reopen as the city slowly eases pandemic restrictions.
Staff Writers
Highly sensitive information collected for Covid-19 contact tracing was put at risk due to a weak system, a scathing report has found.
Angie Raphael
A woman aged in her 40s is among the new Covid-related deaths in Western Australia as the state hit a new unwanted record.
WA’s reported COVID infections have soared to a new record high.
Sarah Steger
PM hopeful Anthony Albanese has claimed Australia’s borders are closed - even though international travel was reopened in February - in his latest pre-election stumble.
Students in one state have been forced to return to remote learning as the double whammy of Covid-19 and the flu collide.
Holly Hales, Daniela Pizzirani
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has contracted COVID-19 and will remain in isolation until after Saturday's federal election.
Tim Dornin
North Korean factories are churning out more medicines and medical supplies, state media says, as the country battles its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak.
Hyonhee Shin
The Pan American Health Organisation says coronavirus infections in North America have been climbing for the past seven weeks.
We’ve been in a pandemic for two years, yet when my husband tested positive to COVID it was still a shock.
Kate Phillips
Eric Clapton says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and cancelled two European gigs.
More Perth hospitals have experienced code yellows in the past 24 hours, signalling further worries for WA’s crumbling health system.
Briana Fiore
WA’s COVID contact tracing system contained a ‘number of significant weaknesses’ that could have compromised the personal and medical information of tens of thousands of West Australians.
Josh Zimmerman
WA’s NAPLAN testing regime has been thrown into chaos because so many kids have been absent with COVID-19, forcing education authorities to make a big change.
Bethany Hiatt
Waning vaccine efficacy and the approach of winter will play a role in the McGowan Government’s decision-making over COVID – although the Premier again reiterated he did not want to reintroduce restrictions.
Tasmania is lifting its remaining coronavirus density and capacity limits from this weekend, Premier Jeremy Rockliff has announced.
Ethan James
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared in parliament via videolink on Wednesday after catching COVID-19 on the weekend.
Ben McKay
WA’s reported COVID infections grew to 16,253 on Wednesday but the number of active cases declined slightly for the second consecutive day.
On Wednesday, health officials reported 32 COVID-19 deaths and 9570 new cases in New Zealand.
Australia needs to ‘move on’ from the pandemic and bringing back restrictions to slow the outbreak would ‘crush their dreams’, Scott Morrison has said after a record 14 West Australians died with COVID.
Peter Law
Vaccinated travellers to Indonesia - including WA’s favourite overseas holiday destination Bali - will no longer be required to present a negative COVID-19 test upon entering the country.
Geoffrey Thomas
Victoria's Burnet Institute has partnered with Moderna to develop new vaccines for diseases such as malaria and hepatitis C.
Tara Cosoleto
Leader Kim Jong-un has complained of North Korean officials' "immature" efforts against the country's worsening COVID-19 outbreak.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo says people will no longer have to wear face masks when outside as coronavirus case numbers in the country dip.
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