Almost seven million people in Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state were scheduled to exit a four-week lockdown on Thursday, but state ...

The discovery of a single local COVID-19 case in New Zealand was enough for the government to put the entire country into strict lockdown t...

Authorities in Australia say more than 250 people have been arrested while protesting coronavirus lockdowns in the country. Many faced fine...

Australia's third wave of COVID-19 infections, centred on Sydney, has forced more than half the population of nearly 26 million into lockdo...

Sydney, 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...

Melbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane, Australia's most populous and third-most populous cities respectively, in locking down due to the spre...

The worsening outbreak could lead to Australia's central bank delaying the tapering of its asset purchases from September to November, Lond...

NSW recorded 177 new locally acquired cases in the 24 hours to 8:00 p.m. local time Tuesday, with only 47 of these confirmed to be isolated...

A 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...

Hundreds of extra police patrolled parts of Sydney to enforce the city's lockdown orders imposed to stamp out an outbreak of the highly inf...

Sydney began a two-week lockdown on Sunday as the Bondi neighbourhood cluster of the highly infectious coronavirus Delta variant rose to 11...

"From 6pm today all of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong will go into lockdown," said Gladys Berejiklian...

The areas of Sydney to be locked down midnight are Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and City of Sydney, all in the centre of the metropolis.

NSW officials have so far resisted calls for a hard lockdown although Australia has a good record of successfully suppressing past outbreak...

On Wednesday, the state tightened curbs for a week on gatherings and movement in Sydney, but stopped short of a full lockdown, as fears gre...

A Covid-19 cluster emerged in Sydney last week and has grown to more than 100 cases, with parts of the city in a snap lockdown and restrict...

Police are warning that making such threats is a serious criminal offence and every effort will be made to identify the person or persons r...