On August 9, 2022, Australia’s COVIDSafe app was officially decommissioned, and all its features removed. People were encouraged to uninstall the app. Reports of its closure have made international ...

Governments and policy-makers need to assess the ramifications of the technological response that was deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic, a report from the Ada Lovelace Institute has concluded.

Professor Alemayehu Molla is affiliated with the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, RMIT University. He is a Member of the Australian Computer Society and the Association for ...

As Pfizer plans to lean in on producing its COVID-19 antiviral this year—boosting the number of available Paxlovid treatments by 50% to more than 3.6 billion doses by the end of 2022—the drugmaker is ...

Biopharmaceutical giant Pfizer has offered AU$100 million (US$74.43 million) to acquire Australian company ResApp, which has developed a mobile app to diagnose COVID-19 by the sound of a person's ...

As we prepare for the festive season, it’s easy to let COVID boosters fall off our to-do lists. But COVID is still ...

Alexander Downer told senior colleagues the H5N1 strain of bird flu could mutate into a pandemic ‘with potentially devastating consequences’ for Australia and the world ...

OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel ...