The Latest Breaking News on Should We Be Masking Up? What To Know About Australia’s New Covid Wave

Friday marked an end to the coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide

Global cases and death rates are a fraction of what they were at the height of the pandemic

It doesn’t mean Covid is over, warns Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infectious diseases.

Here's a quick wrap of the COVID-19 news and case numbers from each Australian jurisdiction from the past week.

The UK Health Security Agency says there have been 49 measles cases between January and April - compared to 54 cases in the whole of 2022

The UK Health Security Agency is calling on parents to check their children are up to date with their MMR vaccinations after detecting 49 measles cases between January and April

'We now call what was formerly swine flu just seasonal influenza.'

The National Health Security Office is preparing to order an additional 860,000 influenza vaccine doses, bringing the stockpile to 5.26 million doses to immunise vulnerable groups.