The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County resident has died from MPX — the nation’s first confirmed fatality linked to the disease, public health officials said Monday.

Re: "Doctors urge Covid jabs for young kids", (BP, Sept 13) and "Govt to procure updated jabs", (BP, Sept 7).

NSW has its first recorded case of measles in more than two years with health authorities warning anyone at possible exposure locations to monitor for symptoms.

The Royal College of Paediatricians of Thailand is to issue guidelines recommending an mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer be given to children aged six months to five years, with the first lot of three million doses expected to arrive next month.

The World Health Organisation expects a rise in COVID-19 in Ukraine to peak in October, possibly bringing hospitals close to their capacity threshold, WHO's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

The number of people testing positive dropped below a million for the first time since June

The NHS Covid vaccine service is also now offering appointments to carers and pregnant women

Most age groups are estimated to have seen a drop in prevalence of the virus.

New Zealand is removing most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions as the government signals a return to normalcy for the first time since the pandemic began