Victoria will launch a series of new drive-in vaccination centres across Melbourne after recording 21 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, almost half of them in the community while infectious.
Queensland has recorded six new locally acquired cases, including a one-year-old child who is currently in hospital.
The state's new cases are all linked to the Indooroopilly cluster with none infectious while in...
NSW won't take interstate border closures into account when deciding whether to ease Greater Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown settings at the end of August, the premier says.
Victoria has recorded 11 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases. Health officials say all are linked to previously reported cases although they were not in quarantine while infectious.
Five people have died and 319 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in NSW, as the nation's top doctor calls for a circuit breaker to halt the virus' spread.
More than 16 million Australians are under stay-at-home restrictions with Victoria having joined Sydney, parts of regional NSW and southeast Queensland in lockdown.
Authorities are increasingly confident southeast Queensland will emerge from an eight-day lockdown on Sunday amid the state's worst COVID-19 outbreak in a year.
Queensland is facing its biggest COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic's first wave, with a cluster growing to 63 cases halfway through an eight-day lockdown of the state's southeast.
China has reported the most new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since January as some cities stepped up restrictions, cut flights and increased testing to get to grips with an outbreak driven mainly by the Delta variant.
Victoria has acquired four new locally acquired COVID-19 cases. All are linked to the state's current outbreaks and all were in quarantine throughout their infectious period.
