Friday: Aboriginal organisations accuse the NT government of failing to carry out emergency plans over outbreak. Plus: recordings show orcas hunting blue whales
Aboriginal groups say there has been a catastrophic failure by government over Covid plans in the Northern Territory. Photograph: Katherine Morrow/AAP: Aboriginal organisations accuse the NT government of failing to carry out emergency plans over outbreak. Plus: recordings show orcas hunting blue whalesGood morning. There are concerns over the ability of home rapid antigen tests to detect the Covid Omicron variant, as issues over the supply of the tests to concession card holders rumble on.
, the Morrison government says, just months after campaigning to prevent the reef being listed as “in danger” by the world heritage committee. , to be made by the prime minister Scott Morrison in Queensland on Friday, comes a fortnight after Labor pledged $163m to protect the natural wonder. It highlights the reef as a key election fight in the Cairns electorate of Leichhardt.Rapid antigen tests are being distributed by governments to schools and workplaces but what they can and cannot do is still being determined.
Pharmacies in some areas of Sydney with the highest rates of Omicron infections are struggling to provide rapid antigen testsamid a worsening Omicron crisis, a lack of rapid tests, dire staffing shortages and effective bans on essential visitors,
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