South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is voluntarily self-quarantining after a guest at a dinner he attended was tested positive for coronavirus. 

Reports indicate that President Ramaphosa is currently asymptomatic, but has chosen to isolate as a precaution. 

Professor at the Australian National University Susan Scott is one of four honoured overnight by receiving Australia’s top science prize. 

Professor Scott is one of four recipients to receive the Prime Ministers Prize for Science, and has been commended on her work as Australia’s leading general relativity theorist. 

A student has tested positive for coronavirus in a school in Sydney’s Western Suburbs. 

Staff and students of the school have been asked to self-isolate as contact tracing and cleaning of the school campus gets underway. 

The Electoral Commission of Queensland have today announced that over 300,000 Queenslanders have already submitted their postal votes in anticipation of the upcoming state election. 

ECQ Commissioner Pat Vidgen says he is encouraged by this trend and is delighted to see Queenslanders utilising the postal voting option. 

Severe weather conditions are set to continue for the remainder of this week according to Queensland’s forecast. 

Thunderstorms complete with sleet, hail, and plenty of lightning have already hit areas such as Toowoomba hard, and residents are bracing for more. 

A fire has erupted in Rio de Janeiro main hospital forcing workers and 200 patients to evacuate.

Yahoo reported two women have been hospitalised in serious conditions with COVID-19 and died.

According to the fire department, the fire began in one of the several buildings' basements, sending dense black smoke into the sky.

Three members of a Pro-Independence Group Student Localism, advocating independence for Hong Kong, have been arrested under the city's new national security law on suspicion of publishing content on social media platforms inciting secession.

The national security law in Hong Kong, which took effect on June 30, is seen as a means to curb dissent after months of anti-government protests last year.

Coral reef taller than the Empire State Building has been discovered 500 meters from Cape Town, North Queensland.

The newly-found reef sits amongst seven other reefs and is the first to be discovered in over 120 years.

The detached reef is being observed by a team of scientists and researchers from Schmidt Ocean Institute.

The destruction of a sacred Aboriginal ‘Decision Tree’ has been temporarily halted preventing construction to the sacred site and prompted Dujab Wurrang woman, Sissy Eileen Austin, to step down as First People’s Assembly Member after the tree was taken away on Monday.

Austin thanked her supporters and said, the trust between Aboriginal peoples and the government is broken.

The construction on the Western Highway will be decided by the Victorian Supreme Court tomorrow morning at 10.30am.