Australia’s longest coronavirus-free run has come to an end. As Perth was ordered into lockdown on Sunday (January 31), after a security guard working in hotel quarantine tested positive for COVID-19.

Perth residents ignored a plea from the WA premier not to ‘panic buy’ after it was announced the city would be going into lockdown. As he addressed the media to announce the lockdown on Sunday ...

The city of Perth has been locked down for five days after Western Australia state's first case of local COVID-19 infection in almost 10 months. The city of 2 million people and coastal towns to the ...

CANBERRA – About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital of Western Australia ...

Brisbane and surrounding Australian cities will enter a lockdown late Tuesday after recording two new COVID-19 infections, the Associated Press reported. The Queensland state capital joins Sydney and ...

Michael Toole receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Here’s a newspaper headline from May 27, 2020: “Worker at Melbourne quarantine hotel tests positive for COVID-19”.

The state of Western Australia is facing an “unprecedented situation” as it battles a raging wildfire while millions of residents are under coronavirus lockdown, the state’s premier Mark McGowan said ...

SYDNEY, April 26 (Reuters) - The government of Western Australia state said it will lift a three-day COVID-19 lockdown in Perth and neighbouring Peel region as planned from midnight on Monday after no ...