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4 August 2025 - Find out how you can share important messages around social and emotional wellbeing.

10 July 2025 - We work to minimise the impact of COVID-19 through free COVID-19 vaccines and subsidised treatments, national guidelines and case definitions for public health units, funding research to better understand and tackle this disease, and tracking and reporting on statistics.

22 April 2020 - The Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (the COVID-19 Plan) guides the Australian health sector response.

12 March 2025 - COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease. Symptoms range from mild to severe. Most people recover within a few days. Some people stay unwell far longer with long COVID. Getting vaccinated is the best protection.

27 July 2020 - Dr Aleeta Fejo is a member of the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association (AIDA). Listen to her advice on how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can look after their health during the coronavirus outbreak.

12 March 2025 - Some people are at higher risk of getting COVID-19, or of getting severe illness, getting long COVID or dying from COVID-19. If you are at high risk, you should take extra precautions – especially getting vaccinated – and talk to your doctor. You might be eligible for antiviral medicines.

18 June 2025 - This infographic issued on 25 November 2022 provides a weekly traffic light report of the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation across Australia.

22 December 2023 - Sean Choolburra offers some tips to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities stay healthy, strong and connected during the outbreak of COVID-19.

30 May 2025 - Read our latest news items related to primary care.

19 June 2025 - It is unlikely but possible that a patient in primary care with respiratory symptoms will have Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), so be alert for the possibility of MERS in returned travellers.