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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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”.

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 ...

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 23 (Reuters) - Western Australia's capital of Perth and the neighbouring Peel region will enter a snap three-day lockdown from midnight on Friday after two people tested positive for ...

The country’s short, sharp responses have repeatedly subdued the virus and allowed a return to near normalcy. Now its model is being applied to Perth, its fourth-largest city. By Damien Cave SYDNEY, ...

Residents on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia fled their homes in the middle of the night, just days after being told to stay in because of the coronavirus. By Livia Albeck-Ripka MELBOURNE, ...