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Gould, who is in prison for perverting the course of justice, had claimed Chris Jordan defamed him at speech at the National Press ClubJailed accountant Vanda Gould has failed in a defamation lawsuit against the Australian taxation commissioner, Chris Jordan.In the federal court, Gould, a Sydney-based accountant, had claimed that remarks Jordan made at the National Press Club in 2017 defamed him by painting him as having engaged in the worst kind of money laundering, insider trading and tax fraud. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2021-10-22 07:06:51

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A WHO paper estimates 80,000 to 180,000 healthcare workers could have died from Covid-19; Australia’s second-most populous city celebrates the end of lockdownUK Covid booster jabs could be brought forward as cases hit 52,000New Zealand sets 90% vaccination target before shifting from lockdownsBeijing rolls out Covid-19 booster shotsUK PM resists calls to activate ‘plan B’ despite high level of infectionsSee all our coronavirus coverageOne thing regular readers will have noted is that I occasionally pop in this map which seems to indicate the extent to which the UK’s caseload is an outlier in the western end of Europe, while also showing the surge that is building up towards the east of the continent.It can sometimes be quite the cognitive dissonance for a journalist to be reporting that Russia – with a much larger population and a much lower caseload than the UK – is going into a week of work-free lockdown to try and break transmission, while members of the UK government are failing to follow their own public health advice over face mask wearing, even as daily Covid cases top 50,000.“The UK is an outlier, because it does have quite high coverage of vaccination — and is still having 45,000 cases per day,” said Quique Bassat, a pediatrician at the Barcelona Institute for Global health.Yet after Britain marked “freedom day” in July, it was to be expected that there would be a “persistence of transmission as opposed to other countries which have maintained much more stringent preventive measures,” said Bassat. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/oct/22/covid-live-news-up-to-18000-healthcare-workers-killed-by-virus-who-says-melbourne-emerges-from-long-lockdown

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Publish date : 2021-10-22 07:07:37

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