Recent weeks have seen successive rises in reported COVID infection numbers across Australia, with figures in some states indicating virus levels not seen since early 2023. The growing wave of COVID, ...

In a statement released on Friday, the Labor government’s Health Minister Mark Butler blandly noted “an expected festive season wave” of COVID infection and illness. Australian Health Minister Mark ...

Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney C Raina MacIntyre receives funding from NHMRC (L3 Investigator grant and Centre for ...

Thankfully, the height of the pandemic seems like a long-ago memory ― the masking, the wiping down of groceries, the stocking of toilet paper and hand sanitizer. A very long nightmare, but one that is ...

COVID vaccines have unquestionably made a huge difference during this pandemic. For example, it's estimated COVID shots have saved more than 1.4 million lives in the World Health Organization's (WHO) ...