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Ally is Youth Editor at news.com.au and has been working as a news reporter for news.com.au since 2017. She graduated with a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) from Charles Sturt University that same year and started working at news.com.au as an intern during her final year of studies. Since landing a spot on the team, Ally has written about a multitude of different topics from online dating scams and road rules to the COVID-19 pandemic and breaking news.

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Health Problems

The Ruby Princess cruise ship is watched by a small gathering of residents as it departs Port Kembla in Wollongong, New South Wales, Thursday, April 23, 2020. The Ruby Princess cruise ship has been told to leave Australia by Thursday. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

All the virus news from the past 24 hours

It’s been another frantic day of coronavirus updates. Here is everything you need to know about how it will affect you.

Health Problems

Local officials in protective gear wait at a hotel in Adelaide for the arrival of Australian residents who will go through a mandatory 14-day quarantine after returning on a repatriation flight carrying over 300 passengers who were stranded abroad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak on April 21, 2020. (Photo by Brenton EDWARDS / AFP)

Why Australia’s fared better than Europe

The drop in new COVID-19 cases show Australia is on its way to defeating the virus and there are clear reasons behind the country’s recent success.

North America

US President Donald Trump participates in the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 22, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump corrected after ’fake news’ claims

Donald Trump was corrected by the CDC director, after the President claimed the media “misquoted” comments regarding COVID-19.

Global Coronavirus

A patient who tested possitive to the new coronavirus is taken on a stretcher into the emergency room of the IESS Sur Hospital in Quito on April 18, 2020. (Photo by RODRIGO BUENDIA / AFP)

Virus cases are likely exploding

The number of global COVID-19 cases is near 2.5 million, but experts warn the real number is much higher and the true extent may never be known.

Australian Coronavirus

A traveller is seen on a stretcher after disembarking at Adelaide Airport in Adelaide, Monday, April 20, 2020. The first of two flights bringing Australians home from India has landed in Adelaide with about 370 passengers facing a 14-day period of mandatory quarantine. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

All the virus news from the past 24 hours

It has been another frantic day of coronavirus updates. Here is everything you need to know about how it will affect you.

Australian Coronavirus

Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media at a press conference in Canberra, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Stop it’: PM takes aim at racist attacks

Scott Morrison has lashed out at people perpetrating racist attacks against Chinese Australians amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus Health

A nurse prepares his face mask in the corridor at the isolation ward of the University hospital of Essen, western Germany, on April 1, 2020. - Two patients from France infected with the new coronavirus COVID-19 were to be transported to the Unibversity hospital of Essen for further treatment. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)

PM lifts restrictions on surgery, IVF

From next week, restrictions on a number of elective surgeries will be eased. Here is a list of all the procedures that will recommence.

Leaders

A woman watches a television news broadcast showing file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a railway station in Seoul on April 21, 2020. - South Korea played down a report on April 21 that the North's leader Kim Jong Un was being treated after surgery, as speculation mounted over his absence from a key anniversary. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

S Korea responds to Kim Jong-un rumour

South Korean officials have spoken over the rumours that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is in “grave danger” after undergoing heart surgery.

Australian Coronavirus

Residents swim at Coogee Beach in Sydney on April 20, 2020. - Authorities in Sydney reopened three beaches for walking, running, swimming or surfing only amid lockdown restrictions put in place due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

All the virus news from the past 24 hours

It has been another frantic day of coronavirus updates. Here is everything you need to know about how it will affect you.

Global Coronavirus

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

‘Fake news’: Trump’s tense clash with media

Donald Trump has butted heads with a reporter during a White House press briefing, telling the journalist to “keep your voice down”.

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