Sky News host Paul Murray says half of all of Australia’s coronavirus sufferers have recovered, but you “don’t hear this much on Channel Nine … and the ABC wouldn’t dare mention it”.
| Australia now have more than 6,300 cases of COVID-19, but more than 3,400 people have recovered with 79 or three per
cent suffering serious or critical symptoms of the virus in ICU. “I bet you didn’t see that on TV tonight”. Image: Getty
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