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.
Australia has the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rate in the world, with about 40 people dying with the virus every day but health authorities are concerned the pandemic has slipped off the national agenda.
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.
Parents and carers will be allowed back on campus at ACT public schools from Monday under a raft of changes to COVID-19 restrictions implemented by the ACT Government.
