The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath announces daily reporting of COVID statistics will be wound back and a blanket COVID-19 vaccine mandate direction for private health care workers will be lifted.

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each Australian jurisdiction.

All those eligible will start receiving it from September 1

The FDA today authorized the new booster, which could arrive as early as next week in Chicago, where nearly 2 million residents are expected to be eligible.

Japan, which was praised for keeping its coronavirus cases and deaths largely under control earlier in the pandemic, is experiencing its most severe coronavirus wave so far and has become a hotspot for the virus in East Asia.

The inventors of Corbevax said it was cheap, easy to make, effective and safe. They hoped it could bring vaccine equity to countries that can't access costlier shots. Has it lived up to its promise?

Rapid antigen tests offer a way to both reduce the amount of time most cases spend isolating and reduce the percentage of cases who are still infectious when they end isolation.

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World Health Organization described as a “welcome decline” at a media briefing on Wednesday

The number of severe covid cases needing hospital care has decreased, leading to a lowering of the alert level.

A level two alert means that "Covid-19 is in general circulation but direct Covid-19 healthcare pressures and transmission are declining or stable"

But new surges of virus likely, experts warn