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

Writing for CNN, infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr Kent Sepkowitz, made the dire warning

After more than three years of COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that over 763 million infections, and nearly seven million deaths, have been attributed to SARS-CoV-2.

Australians urged to get their boosters, with COVID and influenza cases rising as the country heads into winter.

American virologist Dr Robert Redfield, who served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021, feared his grandchildren would be faced with an even bigger crisis

Covid-19-related deaths declined last week as the dominant strain is neither more transmissible nor more severe, according to the Public Health Department.

Covid-19 related deaths declined last week as the dominant strain is neither more transmissible nor more severe, according to the Public Health Department.

As Australia heads towards the fourth winter of the pandemic, we have once again started seeing an increase in the level of COVID circulating. With this comes an increased risk of infection and serious illness.

The key to the mystery may lie in your genes.

WA Premier Mark McGowan urges Western Australians to be vaccinated against influenza as it emerges almost 200 children under nine have needed hospital treatment for the virus this year.