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As well as shutting down three quarantine hotels, the density of guests inside the remaining hotels will be reduced to limit the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

A bar owner in California who allegedly sold fake COVID-19 vaccine cards from his business has been charged

India's government agreed to provide more medical oxygen to hospitals, potentially easing a two-week-old shortage that worsened the country's exploding coronavirus crisis.

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India has set yet another COVID-19 record, recording more than 412,000 new cases in 24 hours.

A 66-year-old man in ICU in Queensland is among five Australians to have developed serious blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca jab in the past week.

Scott Morrison said his medical expert panel was "working on (this) right now", but more evidence was needed that the shots protect against COVID transmissibility.

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India's government faced calls for a strict lockdown to slow a devastating surge in new coronavirus cases.

COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warns the coming weeks will be "horrible".

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Victoria says the number of coronavirus vaccinations it has given out has increased by over 100 per cent compared with last week, after mass vaccination hubs opened.

The European Union's drug regulator has begun evaluating a request by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech to extend approval of their coronavirus vaccine to kids aged 12 to 15.

Australians aged over 50 will today begin rolling up their sleeves to get their COVID-19 vaccines as the next stage of the country's rollout begins.

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The Federal Government has reiterated the travel ban preventing anyone in India from flying into Australia is a "temporary measure".

The United States has fully vaccinated more than 100 million people against Covid-19, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention - a milestone that comes with optimism about the future.

Devastating scenes in India, Turkey enters its first lockdown, Iran suffers through it's 'fourth wave' and Brazil has the highest daily rate of COVID-19 deaths per million in the world.

In hopes of taming a monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India opened vaccinations to all adults on Saturday.

A fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in western India killed 18 patients early Saturday, as the country grappling with the worst outbreak yet stepped up a vaccination drive for all adults

The mRNA vaccine from the US manufacturer joins vaccines from AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson in receiving the WHO's emergency use listing

The federal government has held talks with French biotech firm Valneva over a new vaccine supply.

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Brazil today became the second country after the US to officially top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month.

As India faces a devastating surge of new coronavirus infections overwhelming its health care system, people are taking desperate measures to try to keep loved ones alive.

Professor John Skerritt said today: "the current evidence does not suggest a likely association" between the vaccine and the man's death.

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The man died eight days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination however authorities have not established a link between his death and the jab.

Flights from India to Australia are likely to resume within weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

Stories of deaths tangled in bureaucracy and breakdowns have become dismally common in India, where coronavirus deaths have officially surged past 200,000.

Positive traces of COVID-19 have been detected in sewerage around the Allambie Heights area in Sydney's north.

A pill that treats coronavirus in the earliest stages of the disease could be available by the end of the year, the CEO of Pfizer has said.

A private school founded by an anti-vaccination activist in South Florida has warned teachers and staff against taking the COVID-19 vaccine, saying it will not employ anyone who has received the shot.

Confidence in the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine appears to be wavering among the Australian population.

Travellers who were forced into hotel quarantine after a delayed flight could go home today.

Dr Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signalling that oxygen levels are critically low.

Tens of millions of doses could be available in the coming months.

India has been hit by another record jump in COVID-19 cases, with almost 350,000 new infections in the past 24 hours.

The European Union has revealed fully vaccinated Americans could soon be permitted to travel to Europe in time for summer.

Several US states have resumed administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine after a green light from federal health officials.

The most recent blood clotting cases linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine includes the first victim over 50 – but Dr Tony Bartone has called for confidence.

The USA has this morning decided to continue to roll out the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 single-dose vaccine, after it was put on hiatus for more than a week.

Eleven Sydney dock workers have returned negative COVID-19 tests after boarding a ship with an infected crew that had docked in Port Botany.

A Brisbane police officer who developed blood clots after receiving his COVID-19 jab has returned to work.

The Pfizer vaccine is now restricted to Australians aged under 50 while the AstraZeneca jab has been recommended for over 50s.

Victoria will open three new mass COVID-19 vaccination hubs after National Cabinet decided to increase eligible recipients.

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Sydney man Chris Mottershead is desperate to show off his first baby, nine-month-old daughter Dylan, to his mother in the UK.

Australians could pick up a sausage sizzle while getting their COVID-19 jab, with Bunnings "open" to offering its warehouses as vaccination hubs.

Pfizer has responded to reports a Queensland police officer was hospitalised in Brisbane with blood clots three days after receiving the companies coronavirus vaccine.