This week Australia became a world leader. But it wasn't a feat of engineering or some sort of sporting achievement — it was an unwelcome title. According to global databases, Australia led the world in per-capita COVID infections (if…
WHO must be reformed, India ready to play…
Speaking at the second global Covid summit on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the World Health Organisation needs to be reformed and strengthened to "build a more resilient global health security architecture".He also…
Covid 19 Omicron outbreak: Jacinda Ardern confirms New…
New Zealand's border will fully reopen from July 31 - two months earlier than the Government initially planned.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed the new date, which has been brought forward from October, while speaking to…
Covid 19 Omicron outbreak: Govt tipped to bring…
The Prime Minister is expected to today announce the country's full border reopening will be brought forward three months from October to July.It comes as Covid cases, thought to have plateaued, start to creep up…
Savannah Guthrie shares solo Mother’s Day morning after…
Savannah Guthrie may be spending Mother’s Day alone, but she’s not going to let it get her down!After testing positive for COVID-19 for the second time this year last week, Savannah said that she made…
People who never get the coronavirus could teach…
“What we are looking for is potentially very rare genetic variants with a very big impact on the individual,” said András Spaan, a clinical microbiologist and fellow at the Rockefeller University in New York who…
COVID-19 deaths: World Health Organisation releases number of…
The World Health Organisation is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by COVID-19 or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death…
Army officer convicted in first Covid-19 court martial,…
An Army officer and former health official was convicted last week of flouting Covid-19 rules in the first-known court martial of its type, officials said.The officer, 1st Lt. Mark Bradshaw, who had served as an…
Flurona death in Australia: Health experts warning to…
Health experts are warning of the dangerous potential risks of contracting both the flu and COVID-19 simultaneously, after an elderly woman in Victoria died from what has been dubbed ‘flurona’.As Australian’s brace for colder months,…