The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Diamonds defender Jo Weston has tested positive to COVID-19 at the team's training camp in Perth, delaying her travel to the Commonwealth Games.

People flu/ influenza like symptoms urged to visit health centres

Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley will miss Sunday's game against Melbourne in Alice Springs while isolating at home under the AFL's COVID-19 protocols.

Ministers have suggested states should pick up the cost of Covid leave payments as calls grow for support to continue

NEW DELHI: With the Centre announcing free vaccination for booster doses for the next 75 days, district officials in Delhi are gearing up for expansion of the Covid-19 inoculation drive. They have already started identifying eligible beneficiaries and reaching out to them.

The Acting Opposition Leader says rising COVID case numbers should prompt the government to reinstate pandemic leave payments ended by the former government, as pressure mounts on the Prime Minister to act.

LOS ANGELES — Sustained jumps in cases and hospitalizations fueled by the hyper-infectious BA.5 subvariant pushed Los Angeles County into the high COVID-19 community level Thursday, a shift that could trigger a new public indoor mask mandate by the end of this month unless conditions improve.

A sizeable drop in Germany's birth rate in the first months of 2022 has prompted claims from anti-vaxxers that COVID-19 vaccines were to blame.

The New South Wales government will provide free rapid antigen tests to vulnerable communities after a federal government program ends at the end of the month.

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The actual number of new daily Covid-19 infections may be as high as 50,000 compared with the official Ministry of Public Health figures, Nitipatana Chierakul, a respiratory disease expert with Siriraj Hospital, said on Thursday.