The risk of human-to-human spread of the H5N8 strain of bird flu appears low after it was identified for the first time worldwide in farm workers...
Johnson & Johnson has applied to the World Health Organisation for an emergency approval of its COVID-19 vaccine, which should help speed up its use in...
A top medical official has backed Australia to pull off its biggest ever mass immunisation program despite enormous logistical challenges. Coronavirus jabs wi......
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has raised hopes international borders could reopen once coronavirus vaccinations have been widely delivered. Jabs will start on......
Every adult in the United Kingdom could receive both doses of a coronavirus vaccine by August or September, the head of the country's vaccine taskforce has...
Ministers, health workers and volunteers will join a weekend drive to encourage Britain's most vulnerable to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, as a target nears......
South Africa has secured millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer vaccines to fight the highly infectious COVID-19 variant that is dominant in th...
Two new COVID-19 variants, one of which has been classified as a "concern", have been identified in England with some similarities to the South African and...
Businesses have started the year in a more optimistic mood, while confidence among Australians more generally is running close to the long-run average as the...
Five people in NSW sent back into isolation after COVID-19 transmission between guests in hotel quarantine have tested negative. The group will remain in isol......