The Latest Breaking News from Paul Griffin

Queensland schools are being encouraged to reinstate mask-wearing protocols after a week in which more than 15,000 students tested positive.

As health authorities warn another wave of COVID-19 has hit Queensland, some families, like the Brodies, have been unlucky enough to have caught COVID twice in just two months while also dealing with the disruption of the floods.

Queenslanders are being encouraged to voluntarily don masks again to protect themselves against COVID-19 with experts saying it's too early to declare the pandemic over.

New figures reveal hundreds of Queensland children ended up in hospital with the virus during the Omicron wave but the state is still lagging behind all other states in vaccination rates.

Japanese encephalitis is a rare virus that in serious cases can cause your brain to swell. Cases have also appeared in Victoria this week.

The NT's peak Aboriginal health body is calling for "urgent action" to boost remote vaccination rates — especially in Central Australia and the Barkly region — before the NT continues to wind back public health measures.

Air quality expert Lidia Morawska says with Queensland still recording thousands of new COVID-19 cases a day, it is too early to ease the state's mask rules as planned.

Queenslanders who have received three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine are 20 times less likely to die from the virus than those who remain unvaccinated, new data shows.

Paxlovid and Lagevrio will not be available for Australian GPs to prescribe for ‘many, many weeks’

As Queensland braces to hit the peak of its current COVID-19 Omicron wave within the week, health officials are reassuring residents that hospital systems will cope with the influx of new cases.

The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine has been approved in Australia, and it's set to play a big part in future vaccine rollouts around the world.