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Canberrans aged 40-49 eligible for COVID-19 vaccine

Canberrans between the ages of 40-49 are now eligible to book in for a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at the ACT COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic at Garran, the ACT Government announced this morning.

ACT to roll out new prescription monitoring system

A new real-time prescription monitoring system will be rolled out in the ACT next year.

Canberra Health Services chief resigns

Canberra Health Services CEO Bernadette McDonald announced today that she would resign to return to her family in Melbourne.

Local family pushing boundaries to access paediatric healthcare

There are no specialists in Canberra who can provide care for the complications arising from six-year-old Cooper Hadley’s craniofacial abnormalities.

New COVID-19 exposure locations in NSW following positive case

ACT Health is advising anyone in the ACT who has been in the Greater Sydney region of NSW on or after 30 April to visit the NSW Health website and check the...

New case of COVID-19 in returned diplomat to ACT ‘no risk to the public’

A new case of COVID-19 has been detected in a man in his 50s, who is a returned overseas traveller to the ACT.

ACT vaccine rollout update includes over 50s

Canberrans aged 50 and over will access the vaccine through their GP and at Calvary Hospital as the ACT vaccine rollout is updated.

Can our health system handle the rollout?

The corona crisis has brought out the best in our nation’s leaders, both political and bureaucratic. But it has also exposed their weaknesses.

Fifth active case of COVID-19 in ACT hotel quarantine

The ACT has a new positive COVID-19 case: a teenage boy, ACT Health confirmed this afternoon, bringing the number of active cases to five.

ACT’s first AstraZeneca vaccinations ‘a real milestone’

Doctors at Canberra Health Services were given the ACT’s first AstraZeneca vaccinations at the Garran Surge Centre this morning.

Two new cases of COVID in hotel quarantine

The ACT has recorded two new cases of COVID-19 in hotel quarantine in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of active cases to four.

Updated: ‘Weak positive’ COVID-19 cases identified in hotel quarantine

Two returned travellers in hotel quarantine have returned weak positive test results for COVID-19, the ACT Government has announced.

Hotel quarantine ends for Canberra’s returned travellers

The ACT continues to have zero active Coronavirus cases, as all bar one of 166 returned travellers from the Government-facilitated flight to Canberra on 8 February completed their mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine...

First Canberrans are vaccinated against COVID-19

The ACT received its first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine today; among the first were a nurse and a woman of 86.

Update: ACT Government pages affected in Facebook ban

Today social media giant Facebook blocked Australian media sites from sharing news stories; however, ACT Health and ACT Government sites have also been blocked from view.

Call to increase Covid-19 testing rates in Canberra

Canberra residents should get tested for COVID-19, ACT Chief Health Officer Dr Kerryn Coleman recommended today, after viral fragments were found in Belconnen wastewater last week.

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