More Australians hospitalised with COVID than ever before as staff shortages put further strains on an overburdened system;

Shorter isolation times and more rapid testing, will changes to Australia's pandemic policies help or just put more stress on the health system?

A snap meeting of national cabinet today will try to come up with some guidelines about when to use rapid antigen tests, as governments try to shift the way we're managing the country's record numbers of COVID cases.

COVID-outbreaks are once again emerging in residential disability care.

More testing blunders as long waiting times for COVID tests and results continue.

Australia's health systems under increasing pressure as Australians live with the virus

Almost two years since the COVID outbreak began, tens of thousands of Australians are spending Christmas in isolation, as daily COVID cases hit a fresh record;

As New South Wales reintroduces QR check in codes, Western Australia mandates booster shot;

New modelling predicting how quickly the Omicron wave of COVID cases could climb will be presented to today's national cabinet meeting and a discussion about whether to speed up the booster program

There'll be an emergency meeting of National Cabinet tomorrow to discuss the Omicron variant, as the World Health Organisation suggests cancelling some festive events because of its spread