A breakthrough has been made in the race to find a coronavirus vaccine as a new drug developed by academics from the university of Oxford is shown to induce an immune response, prompting the UK government to order 100 million ...

The CEO of an independent aged care home in NSW is calling for help from the government as she is forced to reinstate some lockdown visitation measures and her home is on the brink of running out of PPE. Viv ...

Australian researchers are testing fabric samples from gown manufacturers to find out how to best keep healthcare workers safe from COVID-19. The Medical Device Research Institute (MDRI) team, based at Flinders University, is testing the fabrics for resistance to bacteria, viruses ...

Health and social workers in the UK have been among those paying the highest price for doing their job during the coronavirus crises, a report by Amnesty International has found. The human rights organisation said that at least 540 frontline ...

Two more Australians have died of COVID-19 over the weekend taking the national death toll to 108, while two Melbourne aged care homes have recorded new cases in the double digits. It has also been announced that aged care workers ...

With the recent outbreak of COVID-19 forcing Melbourne back into lockdown for six weeks and parts of NSW on high alert, is it time to ask: were we too quick to open up again? Our neighbours New Zealand this week ...

Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are being forced to work in unsafe working conditions and feel they are being put at risk of catching COVID-19. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers reported today that access to masks ...

Aged care residents died at three times the normal rate in the UK during the COVID-19 peak in April, according to official government statistics. On April 12, 1300 people died in care homes in comparison with 407 the previous year ...

Scientists from around the world are pushing for recognition that it is possible COVID-19 can spread through airborne transmission. In an open letter, 239 experts from a range of science and engineering fields, including virology, aerosol physics and medicine, appealed ...

This week on The Coronavirus Podcast, host Conor Burke is joined by Professor Michael Ward from the University of Sydney. Michael led a study which posits that COVID-19 may become a seasonal virus, much like the common cold or flu. ...