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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media regarding the latest case of COVID-19 coronavirus infections, breaking a 102-day run of no local transmissions, at the parliament in Auckland on August 12, 2020. (AFP)

New Zealand scrambles to find source of new virus infections

Virus measures back in place in the country as election candidates postpone campaigning for a week

12 Aug 2020 9:36 AM

Customers enjoy lunch in the sunshine at the Riverside Market in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. New Zealand marked a 100 days of being free from the coronavirus in its communities Sunday, Aug. 9, with just a handful of infections continuing to be picked up at the border where people are quarantined. (AP)

New Zealand reaches 100 days without coronavirus transmission

There are still 23 active cases but all were detected at the border when entering the country and are held in managed isolation facilities

09 Aug 2020 10:27 AM

Victoria state's authorities say welcomed a “stabilisation” in coronavirus cases, saying the state had averted an exponential increase in infections due to its strict lockdowns. (AP)

Australia's Victoria sees 'stabilisation' in new coronavirus cases

Cases with unknown sources of infection, referred to as 'mystery cases' still continue to be a concern

08 Aug 2020 3:24 PM

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attends the launch of the Labour Party's election campaign in Auckland on August 8, 2020, ahead of the country's general elections scheduled for September 19. (AFP)

COVID success adds bonus points to Ardern's re-election bid

The polls had pointed to a cliffhanger election this September, but the story has since changed because New Zealand's coronavirus response

08 Aug 2020 1:07 PM

A patient has her temperature checked at a medical clinic during lockdown due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Melbourne. (AP)

Australia’s hotspot state tells citizens not to panic buy

Production of beef, lamb and pork has been reduced by one third to reduce chances of virus spread in meat processing plants

06 Aug 2020 11:30 AM

A man walks past a large face mask pinned to a tree in Melbourne on August 3, 2020 after the state announced new restrictions as the city battles fresh outbreaks of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Australia's virus cases soar despite month-long lockdown

The virus has spread rapidly through nursing homes in Melbourne, with almost 1,500 active infections now linked to the facilities

05 Aug 2020 11:33 AM

Workers push trolleys past an empty shop in Melbourne’s central business district on August 3, 2020 after the state announced new restrictions as the city battles fresh outbreaks of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Australia announces paid pandemic leave for those required to self-isolate in Victoria state

Authorities predicted that the latest restrictions in country's biggest cities would cost around 250,000 jobs

03 Aug 2020 3:20 PM

A cyclist passes a group of police and soldiers patrolling the Docklands area of Melbourne. (AFP)

Australia's second-biggest city imposes overnight curfew

Victoria, which is Australia's second most populated state, declared state of disaster over spike in new coronavirus cases

02 Aug 2020 6:13 PM

Police detain an anti-mask protester in Melbourne. (AFP)

Australia's Victoria sees a drop in new COVID-19 cases

Once proud of itself about a tough approach to social distancing, the state now accounts for about 60% of Australia’s 17,300 cases

01 Aug 2020 10:12 AM

Ambulance officers transfer a resident from the Epping Gardens aged care facility in the Melbourne suburb of Epping as the city battles fresh outbreaks of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Australia's elder-care homes most vulnerable amid virus resurgence

Government has deployed disaster-relief teams to elderly-care centres and extended Melbourne's lockdown measures to surrounding cities

30 Jul 2020 3:01 PM

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens while Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks during a press conference at the US Department of State following the 30th AUSMIN July 28, 2020, in Washington, DC. (AFP)

Not ready to harm ‘important’ ties with China: Australia tells US

While Washington is Australia’s main security ally, China is its largest trading partner

29 Jul 2020 9:04 AM

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said that New Zealand has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong. (AP Photo)

New Zealand suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty over Chinese security law

Australia, Canada and the UK suspended extradition treaties with Hong Kong earlier this month

28 Jul 2020 1:48 PM

Experts fear a severe COVID-19 outbreak could be catastrophic in a country where malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are already problems. (Representational Image: AFP)

Papua New Guinea orders lockdown after first COVID-19 death

The country had seen only 11 cases until a week ago but the total now stands at 61, with new cases being found daily

27 Jul 2020 4:52 PM

The Indian community in Australia is comprised of nearly seven lakh people. (Representational Image)

Australia's migration intake to fall by over 2 lakh; Indians affected

India is one of the top sources of skilled immigrants to Australia, with nearly 90,000 students studying in Australian universities

26 Jul 2020 5:44 PM

Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish film-maker, writer and refugee who has documented life inside the Australian offshore immigration camp on Manus Island, poses for a portrait in Christchurch, New Zealand. (AP)

Award-winning refugee author granted asylum in New Zealand

Behrouz Boochani applied for refugee status after attending a literary festival to speak about Australia's hardline immigration policies

24 Jul 2020 12:27 PM

People walk along Albert Park lake in Melbourne. (AFP)

Australia might need weeks to tame the second wave of virus

Australia has recorded about 11,800 coronavirus cases with a death toll of 123, a fraction of what has been seen in other countries

20 Jul 2020 1:16 PM

The quake struck about 12.50pm local time at a depth of 85 km (52 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and struck offshore 18 kms (11 miles) east-southeast of Wau.(Representational Image: AFP)

Quake of magnitude 7 hits Papua New Guinea

A warning for “hazardous tsunami waves” was issued briefly for coastal regions but later it was announced that the danger has passed

17 Jul 2020 1:53 PM

Earlier this year New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accused Australia of sending back people who were not "genuine Kiwis". (Representational Image: AP)

Australia deports New Zealanders despite virus travel ban

Since 2014 nearly 3,000 New Zealanders in Australia have had their visas cancelled ‘on character grounds’

16 Jul 2020 4:13 PM

File image made from video, Brenton Harrison Tarrant appears in a screen via video link in Christchurch, New Zealand. (via AP)

New Zealand's christchurch gunman to represent himself at sentencing

The Christchurch mosque shootings were a shock to the world, which prompted immediate action for stricter gun laws in New Zealand

13 Jul 2020 8:53 AM

People gesture to each other as they walk outside public housing towers that are a hotspot for COVID-19 in Melbourne in Melbourne, Friday, July 10, 2020. (AAP Image via AP)

Australia slashes citizen returns by half as virus surge worsens

Some five million residents of greater Melbourne were ordered into a six-week lockdown this week in an effort to curb a second wave of virus

10 Jul 2020 11:19 AM

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