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4.11am GMT
Mark McGowan, the premier of the state of West Australia, has called an emergency Covid media conference, the ABC reports.
Health minister Roger Cook will be present.
3.54am GMT
A number of countries tightened their borders against a surge in variant strains of the deadly coronavirus as the United States ordered travellers to wear masks on most public transport, AFP reports.
With doses of the different Covid-19 vaccines so far approved for use still in relatively short supply – and mass inoculation programs in their early stages – Britain and the EU have become embroiled in an ugly row over the shots they had been promised by AstraZeneca.
