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Why Australia needs to get donations organ-ised

Life-saving organ transplants have plummeted in the pandemic, fuelling a national campaign to sign up 100,000 Australians as new organ donors.

Sarah Ison

HealthOwner shut for COVID breach 'no vigilante'

The owner of an organic food store shut down by NSW authorities for allegedly repeatedly breaching coronavirus restrictions says he's not a "vigilante".

Luke Costin

Tough restrictionsVideoVictoria emerges from its fifth lockdown

Victoria's lockdown has ended but remaining restrictions, including strict density limits, may prevent some businesses from reopening.

Emily Woods

HealthNew research predicts risk of Alzheimer's

Australian National University researchers have developed a method of linking a person's deteriorating brain health and the likelihood of getting Alzheimer's.

AAP

HealthSydney braces for another lockdown month

Sydney's lockdown is expected to continue well into August after a meeting of the NSW government's crisis cabinet agreed to an extension.

AAP

HealthSA lockdown ends, Marshall fears for NSW

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has again praised the community for responding so well to the state's early lockdown, as he eyes the crisis in NSW.

Tim Dornin

Vaping ResearchPremiumTikTok vape videos glamorise e-cigarettes, study shows

Nearly two-thirds of vaping videos on TikTok glamorise e-cigarettes, a new study warns, and more than a quarter of such videos feature children.

Charlotte Elton

Sick shipVideoCommentsFear as breach exposes unvaxxed health workers to COVID

Roger Cook is ‘very angry’ after two healthcare workers — who chose not to be vaccinated — were exposed to COVID in a protocol breach involving the transfer of sick crew from the virus-riddled ship.

Peter Law

HealthAll NSW adults can book AZ jab from Friday

After weeks of encouraging younger adults to talk to their GP about getting the AstraZeneca vaccine, NSW will on Friday allow bookings at state-run hubs.

Luke Costin

Hotel spreadVideoQLD confirms COVID-19 quarantine breach

Queensland authorities say a returned traveller, who tested positive for COVID-19 on the Gold Coast, caught the virus in hotel quarantine in Brisbane.

Marty Silk

Global pandemicVideoLatest on worldwide spread of coronavirus

The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the COVID-19 virus the world has encountered, and it is upending assumptions about the disease even as nations open their economies, according to virologists and epidemiologists.

AAP

‘Huge relief’VideoSouth Australia to lift lockdown after no new cases

South Australia will lift its COVID-19 lockdown on Wednesday morning after reporting no new virus cases.

Tim Dornin

Health'Come back' call to Aussie blood donors

Australia could experience a shortage of life-saving blood supplies if donation rates don't improve.

AAP

HealthCOVID-19's impact on NSW: the numbers

NSW has recorded 145 new cases of COVID-19 in the latest 24-hour reporting period, up to 8pm on Sunday.

Luke Costin

Shutdown predictionSouth Australia set to end lockdown

South Australia will most likely end its seven-day lockdown on time at 12.01am on Wednesday after it recorded one new case linked to the Modbury cluster.

Tim Dornin

HealthTwo more COVID deaths as NSW plots future

Two more people have died from COVID-19 in NSW, as the state recorded 145 new infections and the state government considers changes to Sydney's lockdown.

Angelo Risso

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Top cop reveals plan to tackle police suicide tragedies

Police Commissioner Chris Dawson will hold a forum dealing with mental health, to start within the next few weeks, in the wake of recent suicides that have shocked the force.

Brianna Dugan

Coronavirus crisisCommentsPremiumLockdown — not vaccines — will fix Sydney outbreak: PM

Scott Morrison has hosed down calls to divert vaccines to NSW from states like WA, saying extra vaccines are not the solution to Sydney’s outbreak.

Sarah Ison

HealthCOVID-19's impact on NSW: the numbers

NSW has recorded 141 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Gina Rushton

HealthCOVID case travelled across NSW-Qld border

A COVID-positive man who received a negative test result but was still obliged to self-isolate travelled across the NSW-Queensland border, authorities say.

AAP

Dreaded variantConfirmed: BBC California crew has Delta strain

A cargo ship berthed at Fremantle Port is riddled with the fast-spreading Delta variant of COVID-19, genomic sequencing has confirmed.

Peter Law

HealthSA record three cases in quarantine

South Australia has recorded three new COVID-19 cases, all in quarantine, so the state's premier says the lockdown will still end on Tuesday night.

Gina Rushton

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Why Perth kids are facing serious danger from vaping

Parents and the Education Department are seriously underestimating the dangers of vaping by West Aussie kids — and it’s time they wake up.

Ben O'Shea

Ben O'SheaThe West Live Host

HealthVic lockdown strategy is working: Andrews

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it's still too early to know whether the state will emerge from its fifth coronavirus lockdown at 11.59pm on Tuesday.

Benita Kolovos