Health
No new COVID-19 cases for NSW with Sydney restrictions likely to ease next week
NSW has recorded no new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian flagged restrictions will likely be eased next week.
- by Mary Ward
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Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
'Operating in the dark': A year since Australia's first public COVID-19 concerns
Exactly one year ago we heard concerns from Australian health authorities for the first time about a new illness emerging from China. There was a lot we didn't know.
- by Rachel Clun
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
To fight coronavirus, we all need a breath of fresh air
Locking people in quarantine rooms without access to fresh air is not just bad to their mental health – it may make them more vulnerable to COVID-19.
- by Tim Moore
Push for wider roll-out of 15-minute coronavirus tests
Several health experts are urging the Victorian government to embrace rapid antigen testing for coronavirus, arguing that the technology is cheap, improving in accuracy, and could help keep borders open and strengthen hotel quarantine.
- by Simone Fox Koob and Cameron Houston
Authorities 'hopeful' virus cluster contained, Victoria eases travel
Victoria has eased conditions for people travelling back from the Greater Brisbane area as Queensland authorities say they are now "hopeful" the hotel cluster has been contained.
- by Stuart Layt
Dozens spared another quarantine as authorities clear cluster concerns
About 30 people will be released from hotel quarantine by 6pm Saturday, as authorities get a greater understanding of the current virus cluster.
- by Stuart Layt
Man and daughter did not breach quarantine, authorities say
The state's chief health officer has defended not making the information public sooner, saying there was no risk to the public and all protocols were followed.
- by Stuart Layt
'I thought we were going to die': Stranded outback couple saved after days without food, water
The couple walked for more than 40km after their car became bogged in sand, stopping to leave notes and etch "SOS" on a dirt road.
- by Georgina Mitchell
All rooms at Brisbane hotel to be tested in breach investigation
All the rooms at the Hotel Grand Chancellor will be tested for COVID-19 as authorities try to determine how the virus was bale to spread in the quarantine hotel.
- by Stuart Layt
Mystery of the seventh floor: How did the virus spread in hotel quarantine?
Brisbane's Hotel Grand Chancellor has seen six COVID-19 cases all linked to the seventh floor, with authorities trying to solve the mystery spread.
- by Stuart Layt
Exactly how Brisbane cleaner caught COVID might never be discovered
Queensland police are combing through four days worth of CCTV as an investigation continues into how a hotel cleaner contracted a virulent COVID-19 strain.
- by Stuart Layt