The Latest Breaking News from NSW Health

COVID rules have been wound back further across Australia, despite two new subvariants driving surge in case numbers – prompting alarm among some experts.

The message is clear: The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, and Australians should brace themself for a winter of not just that virus, but other lurgies too.

Health secretary says emergency departments remain under significant pressure due to high Covid-19 and flu cases

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The union representing prison officers - and a range of other workers considered by many to have been on the front line at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic - says the NSW government should also give one-off payments, like those promised to health workers this week, to employees in…

A man in his 50s has become the second person to be diagnosed with monkeypox in NSW and the third in Australia.

Queanbeyan pharmacists were working through the implication of free flu shots.

An inquest calls out shortcomings in the care of 18-year-old Alex Baes, who died from a toe infection despite attending Broken Hill Hospital four times in less than two days.

Health authorities are urging anyone who visited the CBD in the past 10 days to be on alert for symptoms of a fever, cough or shortness of breath.