Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People queue for coronavirus test kits in Sydney SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's COVID-19 infections hovered near record levels on ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday it would expand the rollout of the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines from next week as it battles a steady rise in hospital admissions fuelled by the ...

And she has revealed what she believes will help push the country over its latest COVID wave - the country’s eighth - by ...

Researchers developing Australia’s first mRNA Covid vaccine say they may have solved the “immune imprinting” issue that has contributed to the declining effectiveness of boosters as the virus mutates.

LONDON — As more cases of the new omicron Covid variant emerge around the world, experts say it's likely that the variant, first identified in South Africa last week, had already been circulating for ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus on Sunday and Australia found two as the countries half a world apart became the latest ...

Pfizer Australia and BioNTech SE today announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have authorized the companies’ XBB.1.5-adapted monovalent COVID-19 vaccine (COMIRNATY ® Omicron XBB.1.5 ...

The World Health Organisation recently evaluated NB.1.8.1 as a “low risk” variant overall. That classification reflects ...

Today’s announcement of an independent inquiry into Australia’s COVID response will examine how we’ve handled the pandemic and how we could better prepare for the next one. But the pandemic is not ...

The new omicron Covid variant poses a greater risk for the unvaccinated and there's reason to believe that current vaccines are going to be "quite effective," a former White House advisor said Monday.

The BA 3.2 strain, dubbed “Cicada”, was first detected in South Africa in December 2024 but only started to spread to at least 23 countries in Europe and the US between late 2025 and early 2026. The ...