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Boss of infected Melbourne man tests positive

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  • NSW reports 11 new cases, Victoria reports two new cases linked to Sydney
  • Australia to phase out AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from October.
  • NSW Nationals MP Adam Marshall tests positive for COVID-19.
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We’ll wrap the blog here after a busy day of news. Thank you for reading with us. Here are some of the headlines:

  • The fast-growing Sydney outbreak has enveloped the NSW parliament with a state MP testing positive and Parliament House declared an exposure site.
  • Eleven new cases were reported today from the Sydney outbreak but Gladys Berejiklian - who was deemed a casual contact of the infected state MP - is resisting lockdown calls.
  • Two people have been infected in Melbourne as a result of the Sydney outbreak, after a returning traveller passed on the virus to his boss at work.
  • China has escalated the trade war against Australia, lodging a surprise complaint with the World Trade Organisation over duties placed on some imports.

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