LONDON—British health minister Sajid Javid on Saturday said he had tested positive for COVID-19, but added that his symptoms were mild. Javid, who has been health secretary for three weeks, has backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to scrap all remaining legal coronavirus restrictions from Monday, despite a fresh surge of cases fuelled by the…

Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Tuesday he is stepping down, exhausted and sick from battling the COVID-19 pandemic and other officials.

Authorities have lashed a New South Wales woman for speeding through a Victorian border checkpoint at night, turning her lights off and evading police for hours until road spikes were used to stop her car. Victoria Health Minister Martin Foley condemned the 57-year-old, from NSW’s Central Coast, for endangering the lives of police. People from…