COVID 19

Rules rolled out during the COVID-19 Pandemic did not adequately consider or protect people's human rights, new report has found.

The Melbourne man, 25, had a highly unusual entry into the workforce at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. 

How the Melbourne mums coped during the strict COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, five years on.

Customers can get anywhere from $50 to $255 through the cash back.

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.

The country's president, Javier Milei, is following ideological ally Donald Trump's similar decision last month.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

Two of Australia's most prominent human rights lawyers, as well as a leading infectious disease expert and late Indigenous activist, are among the recipients of the most prestigious titles in this year's Australia Day honours list, in the 50th year of the awards.

Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci's security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health.

Poor leadership, insufficient communication and staff shortages all bubbled to the surface as a deadly wave of COVID-19 swept through an aged-care home, a coroner has found.

A rock formation tore a 53-metre hole in the Costa Concordia as the vessel attempted a sail-by salute stunt.

Cases in China are surging, but is another pandemic likely?

The prime minister was asked about Djokovic having told media he feels traumatised coming to Melbourne since the incident in 2022.

She's one of many Australians who have sacrificed living close to work for the dream of owning property.

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world.

COVID-19 sent shockwaves across the world, but crucial questions about its origins remain unanswered.

Arthur Guinness took out a 9000-year loan on the unused St James's Gate Brewery in Dublin on December 31, 1759.

Years after a landmark legal ruling, thousands of pandemic-era penalties have been sent to the scrapheap.

Antony Baekeland stabbed his mother with a kitchen knife. When police found him, he was ordering Chinese food on the phone.

We're all familiar with COVID-19, but have you forgotten about its predecessor SARS?

Australian students were academically resilient in the face of long periods of remote learning during the pandemic, new research suggests.

Dr Clare Looker came into the role in July 2023 following the resignation of Dr Brett Sutton, having previously served as Deputy CHO during the COVID pandemic.

"They worked enormously hard, they made some incredibly courageous decisions. It doesn't mean they got every decision right."

The findings of an inquiry into the government response to the pandemic have been released.

Brisbane woman Frances Nilson, 74, agreed to be part of the trial because of her passion for science and the real-world success of vaccinations.

The Trump administration "sent us several samples of test kits," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.

COVID-19 was first detected in late 2019, but in the more than four years since, the disease has been through numerous different mutations.

Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly was the face of the government's response to COVID-19 for much of the pandemic.

After warnings XEC was heading Down Under, the first case of the highly transmissible variant has now been recorded in Australia.

"The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then," he said in the video.

Working with new data released by China, international researchers were able to narrow the field.

Jenny Abraham's world had shrunk to the walls of her apartment - but a $1200-a-month drug changed all that.

"It's the largest it's ever been, and it's money that could be benefitting all Australians."

The officials "expressed a lot of frustration" when the company didn't agree, he said in the letter.

Vaccinations against COVID-19 could be delivered via the nose, for patients who are scared of needles.

The Fair Work Commission in its judgement said the business analyst's attempt to be based five days out of the office was "unreasonable".

For those with long COVID, face masks are one of the only things preventing a potentially-debilitating infection that could set back recovery.

The case has been commenced in federal court on behalf of hundreds of thousands of customers.

North Korea is to reopen limited international tourism by the end of 2024, nearly five years after it completely sealed the country's borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic, two tour companies with connections to the isolated country have announced.

Long COVID cannot be accurately diagnosed in routine lab tests, according to international researchers.

The Bank of England cut interest rates for the first time since the start of the pandemic, providing some relief to households squeezed by the highest borrowing costs in 16 years.

Disgraced and imprisoned movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for COVID and contracted double pneumonia in his lungs.

Just days after declaring only a medical condition could prompt him to drop out of the race, the US president has been forced to isolate.

A doctor suspended over allegations he wrote fake COVID-19 exemptions and shared misleading information about the virus insists he told the truth about vaccines and their risks.

Just a couple of months after a new family of COVID-19 strains named FLiRT arrived in Australia, health authorities are warning a new, more infectious subvariant is taking over.

Other companies have been testing a combined COVID-flu vaccine, but Moderna is the first to announce positive late-stage trial results.

The airline is being sued by the Transport Workers' Union in the Federal Court after the firm laid off almost 1700 ground staff in November 2020.

Two women who attempted to steal $83,000 from the retirement savings of strangers by exploiting a pandemic aid program have been handed two-year sentences but released on probation.

Roads are improving and safety technology is getting better. So why are more and more Australians dying on the road each year?

A new family of COVID-19 strains, nicknamed "FLiRT" are spreading across the world, and have arrived in Australia. This is what you need to know about it.