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Is the mask mandate coming back? Are there new booster shots? When can I go back to work? Everything you need to know if you get COVID-19.

China plans to manage mpox, formerly know as monkeypox, in the same way it handles infectious diseases such as COVID-19 after detecting around 500 cases of the viral infection in August.

The federal government is under fire, accused of failing Australian prawn farmers, who warn it is a matter of “not if but when” more devastating crustacean diseases enter the country, potentially spreading to lobsters. 

The WA Coroner will consider whether ambulance ramping and resourcing levels at Royal Perth Hospital's emergency department caused delays in the appropriate treatment of Ashleigh Hunter, who died from a meningococcal infection.

A leading mosquito-borne virus expert says back-to-back La Niña seasons are bringing a heightened risk of Japanese encephalitis to the southern states.

A doctor's search for ways to improve healthcare affordability has taken him halfway around the world. Now his work has also won him a top prize.

New South Wales will join other states in testing sewage for polio, as cases of the largely eradicated disease emerge overseas.

While Australia is on high alert over foot-and-mouth disease, experts are sounding the alarm about another livestock virus that's spread by mosquitoes

Queenslanders at risk of catching monkeypox are trying to get vaccinated before travelling to overseas hotspots, but the state's stockpile is so small they're unable to access it.

And here's how experts say we could get things back on track.

The European Union says its new order for monkeypox vaccinations will be delivered by the end of June.

Today's national cabinet meeting finishes with no change to essential workers or isolation requirements despite calls from retailers. States and territories say they expect an increase in cases when school surveillance testing begins. As it happened.

Woolworths says absences at its distribution centres has decreased, but rapid antigen tests, paracetamol and toilet paper are still subject to purchase limits. 

All the COVID-19 news from across Australia on Monday, January 24 — as it happened

Students and teachers in NSW and Victoria will have access to weekly rapid antigen tests, with those states planning to do away with school closures when classes resume. Our coronavirus updates — as it happened

Get up to speed on all the coronavirus news from across Australia.

Ivermectin could be the saviour for rare Australian sea lion pups in the battle against deadly hookworm.

New Zealand will end a three-and-a-half-month lockdown in Auckland next week as it adopts a new coronavirus control strategy, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. It comes as Air New Zealand cancels 1,000 flights to Australia.

Catch all the latest COVID-19 updates from across Australia, all in the one place.

Catch all the latest COVID-19 updates from across Australia, all in the one place.

Catch all the latest COVID-19 updates from across Australia, all in the one place.

Catch all the latest COVID-19 updates from across Australia, all in the one place.

Catch all the latest COVID-19 updates from across Australia, all in the one place.

Catch all the latest COVID-19 updates from across Australia, all in the one place. As it happened.

Australia knew about the threat of the deadly Spanish flu months before it arrived. Much of what happened then, like quarantine policies, federal edicts and state-based border controls, are mirrored in the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.