Prime Minister Scott Morrison says localised restrictions being imposed in Victoria are "part of living with COVID-19" and proof National Cabinet's slow easing of restrictions makes sense.Key points:Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there will likely be further outbreaks of COVID-19He says localised responses, like that seen in Victoria, are going according to planVictoria has recorded…

A toddler at a childcare centre in Melbourne’s north is among 16 new cases of coronavirus in Victoria today.The child tested positive after attending the Great Beginnings nursery in Reservoir, Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos told reporters this morning.“A toddler has tested positive … and contact tracing and testing is underway, as is appropriate there,”…

More than 1 million Victorians have been advised not to leave their suburbs by a national health committee and the state government is considering making the advice a legally enforceable restriction. On Sunday the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee advised against travel to and from the Hume, Brimbank, Moreland, Darebin, Cardinia and Casey local government…

ChanticleerTransurban, Challenger, Stockland and Seek showed investors how COVID-19 will create positive and negative ripple effects as the August company reporting season approaches. In the space of about an hour on Monday morning, four separate companies gave Australian investors a preview of the barrage of COVID-19-related data points they’ll need to sort through in the August…

Organizers of a National Indigenous Peoples Day festival in Ottawa have adapted to COVID-19 restrictions through a virtual powwow on social media, and even a virtual traditional cooking workshop.National Indigenous Peoples Day is celebrated across Canada on June 21 each year to honour the history, achievements and culture of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.…

Home / India News / AAP says medical services to be boosted as Delhi’s Covid-19 tally nears 60k The Delhi government plans to make contact tracing more robust and boost medical services in areas hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Aam Aadmi party said Sunday..“Hon’ble CM @ArvindKejriwal and Hon’ble Dy CM @msisodia discussed key…

The Ministry said being densely populated (2,27,136 persons/sq. km), Dharavi had 491 cases in April 2020 with a 12% growth rate and a case doubling period of 18 days.   | Photo Credit: AP Maharashtra government., BMC aggressively conducted contact tracing, says Union Health Ministry. The Union Health Ministry on Sunday said the Maharashtra government…

TORONTO -- One day after recording a slight spike, Ontario has dipped back down to fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases. Health officials logged another 175 patients infected with the novel coronavirus on Sunday morning, bringing the provincial total number of cases to 33,476. Today, Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 cases again, with 175…

OTTAWA -- Watching the farms and highways of Ontario out of the oval windows of an Airbus A320, it's easy to forget for a moment how COVID-19 has so thoroughly changed familiar routines. From cruising altitude, the fields look as they always do, a bucolic quilt of greens and browns, shadows moving over them as…

President Donald Trump spent more than 10 minutes bragging about his ability to walk down a ramp and drink water out of a glass during his Saturday campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where COVID-19 infection rates are on the rise.The rally billed by the president's reelection campaign as a massive relaunch was instead marked by…