Melbourne to ease more COVID curbs as 80% vaccination rate nearsStarting on Friday, when 80% of people across Victoria - of which Melbourne is the capital - are expected to be fully vaccinated, Melburnia...
24 Oct, 2021, 09.11 AM IST
Australian govt aims to 'live with Covid virus' instead of eliminating itAustralian authorities on Wednesday extended the Covid-19 lockdown in Melbourne for another three weeks, as they shift their focus to rapid...
02 Sep, 2021, 09.53 AM IST
Melbourne extends sixth virus lockdownAlmost seven million people in Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state were scheduled to exit a four-week lockdown on Thursday, but state ...
30 Aug, 2021, 08.26 AM IST
COVID-19: Indian women's cricket team's schedule for Australia could be alteredThe schedule includes three One-Day Internationals, as many Twenty20 Internationals and a historic day-night Test match at the WACA Ground.
25 Aug, 2021, 12.18 PM IST
250 held in Australia anti-lockdown protestsAuthorities in Australia say more than 250 people have been arrested while protesting coronavirus lockdowns in the country. Many faced fine...
21 Aug, 2021, 10.50 PM IST
Sydney records deadliest day of COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne lockdown extendedSydney, which is in its eighth week of lockdown, is the epicentre of Australia's third COVID-19 wave that threatens to push the country's A...
16 Aug, 2021, 11.50 AM IST
Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, enters 6th lockdownMelbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane, Australia's most populous and third-most populous cities respectively, in locking down due to the spre...
05 Aug, 2021, 07.05 PM IST
Melbourne to lockdown for 5 days from ThursdayA three-week lockdown of Sydney and surrounding communities in New South Wales state had been due to end on Friday. But it will now last un...
15 Jul, 2021, 04.28 PM IST
Australia's COVID-19 hotspot logs four new local casesThe four new local infections bring Victoria's total cases to 74, including two recovered cases, in the outbreak that began in late May aft...
06 Jun, 2021, 10.56 AM IST
Australia's Covid success under threat as Melbourne goes into lockdownvAs authorities said a cluster of positive cases had grown to 39, streets in Australia's second city emptied out for the fourth time since ...
28 May, 2021, 10.31 AM IST
Masks, social restrictions return to Australia's Melbourne after fresh outbreakAmid worries the cluster, which has grown to nine cases in two days, could spark a major outbreak, Victoria imposed social restrictions and...
25 May, 2021, 11.40 AM IST
Australian Open crowds banned as Melbourne begins lockdownAustralia's second-largest city of Melbourne went from welcoming thousands of fans for its Grand Slam tennis tournament to deserted city st...
13 Feb, 2021, 10.08 AM IST
Melbourne lockdown lifted after zero new virus cases recordedMelbourne and the surrounding Victoria state recorded the first 24-hour period without any new Covid-19 cases since June 8 -- before securi...
26 Oct, 2020, 11.36 PM IST
Australia eases lockdown in its coronavirus epicenter VictoriaThe state at the epicenter of Australia’s Covid-19 outbreak announced an easing of restrictions on Sunday, but left many businesses shutter...
19 Oct, 2020, 09.20 AM IST
Australia cuts citizen returns as coronavirus cases riseAustralia will slash the number of returning citizens allowed into the country by half as it struggles to contain an outbreak of coronaviru...
11 Jul, 2020, 04.38 AM IST
Five million begin lockdown in Australian cityFive million people in Australia's second-biggest city began a new lockdown Thursday, returning to tough restrictions just weeks after they...
09 Jul, 2020, 01.00 PM IST
Several Australian schools in lockdown over bomb threatsThe threats came on the first day of the opening of the schools after the long Christmas break, leading to multiple police operations, medi...
29 Jan, 2016, 10.29 AM IST