Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says Australians must make their own COVID-19 choices, as experts back a decision to expand access to a fourth vaccine dose.
Experts say nine out of 10 long COVID sufferers were not taken to hospital with the virus, showing a milder infection won't protect patients from brain fog.
Angry bank customers who travelled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks have been stopped by a health app on their mobile phone.
The Novavax vaccine has been given the Australian regulator's tick of approval as a COVID-19 booster for people aged 18 and over, the company has announced.
After more than two years, the ACT Government is lifting the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration, replacing it with the power to make a "COVID-19 management declaration" that includes regulating businesses and mandating vaccination requirements.
COVID-19 deaths are again on the rise with Australia recording 88 fatalities of patients with the condition over the weekend and 363 in the past seven days.
North Korea has reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population.
North Korea has confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak, calling it the country's "biggest emergency incident", with leader Kim Jong-un ordering a lockdown.
The ACT has recorded 1,242 new COVID cases and two virus-related deaths, as an Australian University is hoping to develop a COVID-19 vaccine to protect against all variants.
Millions of Beijing residents have queued up for another round of COVID-19 tests as China's capital seeks to trace and isolate every infection to contain a small but stubborn outbreak - and avoid a Shanghai-style prolonged lockdown.
A prominent US senator has pledged a vigorous review into the origins of the coronavirus if republicans retake the Senate and he lands a committee chairmanship.
