The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is an infectious respiratory disease with several symptoms, which can be mild, moderate, or severe. These symptoms include...

Image: Shutterstock GPs can now prescribe antiviral pills for some of their vulnerable COVID-19 patients to take at home. More patients are expected to have access in coming weeks and...

Image: Shutterstock Not many more sleeps until Christmas, and all those long lunches and get-togethers with family and friends. If you’re hosting a gathering and want...

  Image: John Cairns, University of Oxford via AP The past 20 months has seen an explosion of vaccine development, with COVID vaccine testing and...

Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) crews continue to travel hundreds of thousands of kilometres each week to transport and administer Pfizer vaccines to some...

The Delta variant is a strain of COVID-19, first detected in India in late 2020, which now has the world in its grasp. Unlike...

  Picture: Dave Hunt/AAP You may have already downloaded to your phone a digital certificate proving you have received one or two doses of a...

      Prime Minister Scott Morrison talked about the Kabul bombings on Friday but didn’t announce what happened at National Cabinet. Mick Tsikas/AAP Image National Cabinet met...

  Picture: Joel Carrett/AAP One consequence of the escalating COVID outbreak in New South Wales has been increased political tension around the “national plan” for...

  Picture: Onchira Wongsiri/Shutterstock Australia’s official policy on vaccines is that they be voluntary and free. But the federal government hasn’t shut the door completely...