The Latest Breaking News from Victoria

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Victorians wanting to become parents are lobbying the state government to restart IVF treatment suspended in the state's pause on non-urgent elective surgery.

Victoria has declared a "pandemic code brown" for public hospitals statewide as both COVID-19 hospitalisations and the number of staff on leave due to exposure or infection reached a record high. The emergency code has been used in the past, during the Black Saturday bushfires and the 2016 thunderstorm asthma…

Seventy-seven deaths have been reported across the country, with 36 in NSW, 22 in Victoria and 16 in Queensland

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Thousands of Victorian children will miss out on vital swimming lessons this month due to instructor shortages and the rapid spread of COVID-19.

Looking like a bad time to live in NSW.

Victoria has declared an emergency for all metropolitan and six regional hospitals as it struggles under pressure from COVID-19 admissions and staff shortages.

Code Brown will be activated at midday tomorrow for all metropolitan hospitals and six regional hospitals, allowing them to redeploy staff and ask some workers to postpone leave in order to respond to a surge in patients.

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