An Australian-first study on the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines has found a third COVID jab provides two thirds more protection from death or hospitalisation from Omicron.
The federal health department is currently making improvements to the My Aged Care reporting template for residential and in-home and community aged care providers’ weekly reporting on resident and workforce COVID-19 vaccination status.
Australians could find out in a matter of weeks whether they need to receive a second COVID-19 vaccine booster ahead of a predicted winter surge in infections.
Catholic Health Australia is calling on Health Minister Greg Hunt to step up and immediately change Australia’s official definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ from two doses to three.
In an ultra-secure lab at the Kirby Institute at UNSW, a team of researchers have been working to understand the effectiveness of vaccines against the Omicron variant - and the first round of data is definitive: boosters are key. BIANCA ROBERTS reports
More than seven-in-10 vaccinated Australians say they will definitely get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot when it is recommended to them, new analysis from the Australian National University (ANU) shows.
Fragile nations are doomed to be stuck in an endless cycle of COVID-19 strains, and therefore put nations across the globe at risk, unless the world urgently addresses vaccine inequity and hesitancy, according to World Vision.
The emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant underlines the need for Australia to develop a network of dedicated quarantine facilities and to pursue the roll out of booster shots more vigorously, the AMA said on Monday.
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