Monday: Much of WA goes into five-day lockdown after hotel quarantine guard tests positive to Covid. Plus: the anti-fog glasses treatments that work with facemasks
Good morning, it’s Imogen Dewey here, bringing you news about the lockdown in Western Australia, the coronavirus vaccine debacle unfolding in Europe and startling findings about our federal political donations on the first day of February.
Western Australia has imposed a five-day lockdown in metropolitan Perth, the Peel region and the state’s South West amid fears a hotel quarantine worker who tested positive to Covid-19 contracted the highly contagious UK variant. It has thrown the first federal parliamentary sitting days into confusion, with politicians arriving in Canberra for the start of the parliamentary year from WA ordered into immediate quarantine. Scott Morrison is set to commit $1.9bn for Australia’s vaccine rollout and attempt to bolster consumer confidence in a speech today – but the Coalition seems unlikely to lift unemployment benefits when jobkeeper is scrapped in March.
Continue reading…Monday: Much of WA goes into five-day lockdown after hotel quarantine guard tests positive to Covid. Plus: the anti-fog glasses treatments that work with facemasksGood morning, it’s Imogen Dewey here, bringing you news about the lockdown in Western Australia, the coronavirus vaccine debacle unfolding in Europe and startling findings about our federal political donations on the first day of February.Western Australia has imposed a five-day lockdown in metropolitan Perth, the Peel region and the state’s South West amid fears a hotel quarantine worker who tested positive to Covid-19 contracted the highly contagious UK variant. It has thrown the first federal parliamentary sitting days into confusion, with politicians arriving in Canberra for the start of the parliamentary year from WA ordered into immediate quarantine. Scott Morrison is set to commit $1.9bn for Australia’s vaccine rollout and attempt to bolster consumer confidence in a speech today – but the Coalition seems unlikely to lift unemployment benefits when jobkeeper is scrapped in March. Continue reading…