The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

LOS ANGELES — Officials in Beverly Hills will not use city resources to enforce an indoor mask mandate if the Los Angeles County Public Health Department decides to issue one.

Social media has the reputation of being spontaneous, rushed, prone to typos and ungrammatical sentences, and generally a linguistic disaster. And some of it is. However, analysis of Twitter posts on the topic of COVID-19 suggests there is more to social media language than first meets the eye.

The ACT recorded 1104 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours until 8pm Tuesday.

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each state and territory.

The Deputy Premier reveals how much taxpayers paid to set up and run the controversial privately owned Wellcamp quarantine facility on the Darling Downs.

Queensland's Deputy Premier Steven Miles says while COVID case numbers are high in Queensland, the hospitalisation rate is much lower than for other variants because of the higher vaccination rate.

Around 110,000 people are off work with condition at any one time, new research estimates

Researchers say impact of rise to 2 million cases meant it was ‘a significant part of pandemic’s legacy’

European Commission (EC) has approved AbbVie’s (NYSE:ABBV) lead asset RINVOQ (upadacitinib 45 mg [induction dose] and 15 mg and 30 mg [maintenance doses]) for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis. AbbVie shares traded in a range of $150.33 to $153.56 on a day volume…

BENGALURU: It is likely that the surge in Covid-19 numbers is under-reported, say experts as an increasing number of people — both asymptomatic and symptomatic — are using home-test kits (Rapid Antigen Tests) and not sharing the data with the authorities.

The league will still strongly suggest all players and personnel be fully vaccinated.