Some people getting Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines should consider waiting up to eight weeks between the first and second doses, instead of the three or four weeks previously recommended, US health officials say.
Listen up Canberra crafters, eight-year-old Skye has joined the cause to crochet companions for her fellow kids getting the jab and she needs your help.
Skye is the youngest member of Good Omen...
Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States were in people who were fully vaccinated and a third of them had received a booster dose, a US report says.
There are no cases of the new Omicron variant in the ACT, but the territory government is taking a precautionary approach, said ACT Health Minister, Rachel Stephen-Smith.
Five police officers have been injured in the Netherlands and at least 28 people detained as violent protests against COVID-19 restrictions continued for a second night.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says unvaccinated people will not be granted freedoms any earlier than December 15 despite thousands rallying against vaccination requirements.
While more than 17 million Australians or 82.8 per cent of the population aged 16 or over are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the nation's reopening is still a way off.
