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Hospital visits banned from Boxing Day as Covid cases rise

From 12.01am on 26 December, Canberra’s health facilities will reintroduce a no-visitor policy to help protect vulnerable patients and staff.

10 new COVID-19 cases in ACT, one hospital patient

A new patient with COVID-19 has been hospitalised in the ACT, after almost a week where no active virus cases were reported in Canberra hospitals.

Hospital stress in NSW and Vic inevitable with reopening

Stress on the hospital system will occur as Australia reopens, but an infectious diseases physician think the worse-case isn't inevitable.

Canberra has daily record 32 new COVID cases

Canberra has recorded 32 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8pm yesterday, the highest number of cases ever recorded in the ACT in one day.

Mental health ward moved to make way for potential COVID patients

patients at the Bruce Calvary Public Hospital mental health ward are being relocated to a new facility at Calvary’s private hospital due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

COVID hospital fire in Iraq kills 58

The death toll following a fire at hospital housing coronavirus patients in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province has risen to 58.

Three in hospital following high-speed collision

Three people were taken to hospital following a two-car high-speed collision on the Monaro Highway near Pialligo around 5.45am today.

Bee stings cause most venom-related hospitalisations

More than a quarter of 3,500 hospitalisations due to contact with a venomous animal or plant in Australia in 2017-18 were caused by bee stings.

Hospital patients permitted two visitors

Restrictions for hospital visitors will be eased slightly from tomorrow, Monday 26 October, when hospital patients in the ACT will be allowed two visitors. The changes will allow two visitors per patient...

Inside the ACT’s $14 million surge centre we hope remains unused

Having currently cost around $14 million, the ACT’s rapidly produced temporary COVID-19 surge centre that has commandeered Garran Oval, adjacent to Canberra Hospital, is now ready for action. However, if the Territory’s current...

Nurses and midwives celebrated amidst coronavirus crisis

Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, Canberra’s nurses and midwives have been celebrated with the 2020 Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards on International Nurses Day today, Tuesday 12 May.

ACT records 10,371 negative tests plus no new cases overnight

There have been no new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the ACT in the past 24 hours to midday 7 May 2020.

Starlight sparks joy for William during hospital stays

Starlight Day, on Friday 1 May, is the biggest fundraising event of the year for the Starlight Children's Foundation.

Some elective surgery and procedures to resume in ACT

Some elective surgery and procedures will recommence in the ACT this week, in line with the Federal Government’s announcement last Tuesday, 21 April.

Community sharing the care for health workers and patients

Generous Canberrans and local businesses are being urged to get behind a Canberra Hospital Foundation campaign to make sure that donations arriving at health care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic are appropriate and reach frontline workers.

Garran Oval to house temporary COVID-19 ED

Garran Oval, adjacent to the Canberra Hospital, is set to house the temporary COVID-19 ED, which is anticipated to be operational in May.

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