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

Some claim the rise in winter infections has been caused by the reduction of seasonal bugs during lockdowns. But experts are sceptical about these oversimplified explanations

New U.S. government data suggests holiday gatherings didn’t spark surges in respiratory diseases

ONS estimates that 3.5 per cent of Londoners had virus in week up to January 3

Millions of patients have taken up the opportunity to protect themselves from flu by getting their annual jabs, but millions are also yet to get the jab

Prevalence of the virus is continuing to increase among the over-70s, however.

MP Andrew Bridgen was suspended from the Conservative party on January 11 for persistent misinformation about COVID vaccines, including numerous false claims around their safety. The final straw appears to have been his comments comparing the vaccination programme to the Holocaust.

New ‘kraken’ mutation of the COVID-19 virus is most contagious subvariant yet

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

The Department of Health encourages getting vaccinated to help to protect the health service at a time when hospitals are under extreme pressure

Medical experts say the new COVID-19 mutation dubbed “kraken” is the most contagious subvariant of the virus to emerge since the pandemic began — and it’s becoming the dominant strain in the United States.

Figures had been on an upwards trend since late November.