The Latest Breaking News from Adrian Esterman

With coronavirus case numbers expected to rise in the coming weeks, health authorities are urging Australians who haven't yet had a booster to do so.

Epidemiologist and former WHO official Professor Adrian Esterman claimed that BA.2 is 'pretty close to measles' in terms of transmissibility.

Epidemiologist Adrian Esterman says BA.2 is about 40 per cent more contagious than the original Omicron strain, with a similar transmissibility to the highly-contagious measles.

As Western Australians wonder how the state's eventual border reopening might unfold, pundits often draw on the South Australian experience. But how comparable are the states and what bearing did SA have on Premier Mark McGowan's call to indefinitely delay the border opening?

An economist who has been analysing COVID-19 statistics since the start of the pandemic believes the latest Omicron strain may mark its end in highly vaccinated countries, but local epidemiologists warn COVID-19 could still have some nasty surprises.

In the face of the Omicron variant, millions of Australians have already received booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines. But questions about whether a further booster is necessary, and how a universal vaccine may alter the status quo, remain.

Omicron’s arrival dashed much-anticipated hopes that a "normal" summer was on the horizon. Now as the dust settles on the latest COVID curve ball, what can we expect from the coming months?

Experts believe South Australia has reached the peak of its biggest and deadliest COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began. So what happens next?

Ireland’s premier Micheál Martin says ‘we have weathered the Omicron storm’; France reports 400,851 daily cases and 233 Covid-linked hospital deaths