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The US president asks for an "adjustment" to plans to vaccinate White House officials early.Read more: BBC.COM ... Read More

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Scheme is first countrywide testing programme for schools in the UK and follows rollout of mass testing to care homesRead more: Read More

Pointing fingers at China is less likely to get it to cooperate and more likely to make it defensive. The bottom line is that Beijing needs to be engaged and not isolated - China is not the problem, it is a critical part of the solution.Read more: < ... Read More

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Stores and schools will be closed, and public and private meetings will be restricted over the holidays, in an effort to bring down coronavirus infections and deaths.Read more: Read More

Strong winds and heavy rain forecast to continue in parts of Queensland's south-east and northern NSW and report to reveal if Victoria's contact tracing shortcomings have been fixed. Follow all the latest news u ... Read More

The authorities have been struggling to control a growing number of infections and deaths.Read more: BBC.COM ... Read More