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

When it comes to COVID, people living in disadvantaged communities are hit with a triple whammy. First, they’re more likely to get infected, and when sick, are more likely to have serious disease. Second, they’re more likely to develop long COVID. Third, our recent research suggests they’re less likely to…

After COVID vaccines for children aged five to 11 were approved in late 2021, the UK lagged behind the US and many European countries in rolling them out.

In early 2020, when Covid-19 was spreading rapidly across the globe, the data suggested that it was a short-lived infection.

The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall

Australia is in its fifth COVID wave, which has been brewing since February. It has grown slowly so many people may have not realised it.

Each Omicron wave so far in Australia has had distinguishing features – the sharp rise and fall of BA.1, the widespread transmission among children and families in BA.2, a shift to more infections in older people with BA.5, then the confusing variant mix in the summer wave of 2022-23.

As people head on their holidays abroad, or choose to have a vacation at home, there is an increased chance of catching a virus due to a number of them in circulation

Vaccine plans devised during Covid crisis have been systematically dismantled by ministers, says former head of vaccine taskforce

Of the nearly 58,000 cases recorded across the country, 30% occurred over the last fortnightly reporting period

With vaccines on the horizon, RSV could finally be preventable. But anti-vax misinfo could get in the way

The number of Covid-19 inpatients rose last week while health authorities encouraged vaccination for young children to protect their development.