SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Wednesday reopened borders to vaccinated skilled migrants and foreign students after a nearly two-year ban on their entry, in a bid to boost an economy hit by ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Like millions of others in the most locked-down place on the planet, Melbourne resident Rav Thomas dutifully spent 262 days confined to his home as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. He got ...

Charlotte Roempke, 8, welcomes her grandfather Bernie Edmonds as he arrives at Sydney International Airport after Australia reopened its international borders in Sydney, Australia February 21, 2022.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia must "push through" the fast-moving Omicron outbreak, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, as infections surpassed 1 million, more than half in the past week ...

The number of Australians admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 hit a record of about 5,450 on Monday, official data showed, as the spread of highly contagious new Omicron subvariants strains the ...

The most recently detected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant of concern (VOC) is the Omicron variant, which was first detected in South Africa on November 9, 2022, ...

Australia reported one of its highest daily death tolls from the novel coronavirus on Thursday while hospital admissions hovered near record levels, as authorities struggle to get ahead of highly ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus on Sunday and Australia found two as the countries half a world apart became the latest to ...