A Covid mask mandate is being rolled out across Greater Sydney, the NSW Central Coast, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains.

Health authorities have renewed calls for Queenslanders to put travel plans to New South Wales and Victoria on ice.

Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton reportedly made a personal appeal for NSW to introduce a mask rule WEEKS ago, but was ignored.

Pop up hospitals are being set up in London as the surge in coronavirus cases overwhelms medical facilities.