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I have COVID-19. What happens now? How to manage your symptoms at home

You've felt that first tingle of a sore throat. Or, you've been hit with a headache that's knocked you out for an entire day. You're COVID-positive. Here are some things to think about that will help you get through it.

ABC News · May 4, 2022

Albanese rallies against ‘fear and division’ at Labor campaign launch – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU · Apr 30, 2022

With wait times for public elective surgeries stretching out, Australians are funding their own procedures

With wait times for elective surgeries in public hospital systems ballooning following lockdowns, some patients are self-funding their own procedures to try and skip the queue.

ABC News · Apr 25, 2022

Rules about isolation for COVID-19 close contacts change in NSW today — this is what you need to know

The NSW government scraps the requirement for close contacts of COVID-19 cases to isolate at home for seven days. Here's everything you need to know.

ABC News · Apr 21, 2022

'Strict' household contact rules to ease, Lake Macquarie person dies with COVID-19

Hunter New England records more than 2000 new cases, another death.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 20, 2022

GOOD: NSW Health Services Will Give Free Period Products To Folks Who Can’t Supply Their Own

Too bloody right.

Pedestrian.tv · Apr 19, 2022

Two COVID-related deaths in Hunter New England health district

Hunter New England Health is caring for 86 people in hospital, with just one in intensive care.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 14, 2022

What To Do If All This Rain’s Got Your Sharehouse Mouldier Than A Block Of Blue Castello

Time to whip out my BFF white vinegar.

Pedestrian.tv · Apr 12, 2022

Newcastle and Hunter health district records highest COVID cases in NSW as hospitalisations rise

A Taree resident has died and hospitals in the Hunter health district were treating 74 people for COVID-19, three of whom were in intensive care, as hospitalisations further afield in NSW rose overnight even as cases fell.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 11, 2022

Charts reveal NSW's accelerating COVID-19 infection rate and how state recorded 1m cases in 75 days

NSW took 731 days to officially reach 1 million COVID-19 cases. To get from there to 2 million, it took just 75. And unofficially, the state probably hit that milestone even sooner.

ABC News · Apr 9, 2022