Healthcare
Explainer
Coronavirus pandemic
What do the vaccine reopening targets mean and when is all the Pfizer arriving?
Young people will now be the focus of Australia’s accelerating vaccination campaign. But what do all the reopening targets (and slideshows) mean? And when will vaccine supply catch up with demand?
- by Sherryn Groch
Latest
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Lockdown six needed to tackle mystery cases
Contact tracing is no longer enough to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant – people who have contracted the virus just can’t be found fast enough.
- by Catherine Bennett
‘Very difficult’: 69,000 jabs a day needed to reach NSW’s 6 million target
NSW will need to maintain some of its highest daily vaccination rates on record to reach the 6 million doses needed by the end of August for restrictions to begin to be eased.
- by Pallavi Singhal
Builders say Sydney suburban lockdowns halting $6b worth of projects
Building sites that depend on workers from western Sydney remain unable to open, despite the end of a government ban on some construction.
- by Megan Gorrey
Opinion
Vaccination
I live in Canterbury-Bankstown and I’m worried about my Pasifika community
A Fijian university professor describes his fears for his community in Sydney amid widespread vaccine hesitancy.
- by Jioji Ravulo
Cervical screening self-collection should be introduced, say experts
Medical experts have called on the federal government to introduce universal access to self-collection for cervical screening to help eliminate cervical cancer.
- by Maeve McGregor
Exclusive
Coronavirus pandemic
From 6000 to 60,000 a day: How Victoria’s testing rate has climbed
A mobile laboratory sent to cluster sites is also seeing results delivered in just a few hours.
- by Aisha Dow
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Our COVID testing strategy needs updating
The fast-moving Delta variant has exposed the failures in our current system, and why we need to immediately deploy daily rapid antigen testing nationally in all high-risk settings.
- by Dean Whiting
Updated
Coronavirus pandemic
‘We have a growing problem’: NSW records 163 new COVID-19 cases
NSW has recorded 163 new locally-acquired cases in the latest reporting period, the highest daily tally of the latest outbreak.
- by Pallavi Singhal
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
Code red: NSW plunged into COVID national emergency
Gladys Berejiklian is running out of strategies to contain the outbreak of the Delta strain, which means no end in sight to Sydney’s lockdown.
- by Deborah Snow
Opinion
Column 8
Sarah Moaney to skip tonight’s ceremony
The first rule of a lock-in is no-one says it’s a lock-in.