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Kerry has been a journalist for more than 15 years. She started her career at The Sydney Morning Herald, followed by a stint at The Australian Women’s Weekly. She came to news.com.au in 2018 as Commissioning Editor, before becoming News Editor and then Sections Editor. She helped spearhead news.com.au’s groundbreaking #LetHerSpeak and #JusticeShouldn’tHurt campaigns, which have won a News Award, a Kennedy Award and a Walkley Award.

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Australian Coronavirus

PM reveals ‘concerned’ text to Dan Andrews

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed he sent a text message to the Victorian premier after receiving “concerning” feedback on his plan to extend the State of Emergency.

Australian Coronavirus

Hotel guard delivered food while infected with COVID-19

A ‘bored’ guard working for Victoria’s hotel quarantine program delivered food while waiting for a COVID-19 test result, which later came back positive.

Australian Coronavirus

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 22: Milly Brown, Assistant in Nursing conducts a COVID-19 swab test as large crowds queue at a Bondi Beach drive-through testing clinic on July 22, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. New South Wales recorded 16 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the state's total number of coronavirus cases to 3,425. NSW residents are being urged to avoid non-essential travel and large crowds, as health authorities work to contain several COVID-19 cluster outbreaks across the state. Cases linked to the Crossroads Hotel, Thai Rock and Batemans Bay Soldiers Club clusters have been shown to all be linked to virus strains in Victoria, where residents are currently in lockdown due to the dramatic rise in community transmissions. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Mandatory masks will be in place ‘for a while’

Victorians could be living under mandatory mask rules well into the Summer, with Premier Daniel Andrews saying the rules will likely be in place “for a while”.

Global Coronavirus

Karin Hildebrand, a doctor in an intensive care unit (ICU) in Stockholm's Sodersjukhuset hospital is pictured with a protective face mask on June 11, 2020, during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

‘Dangerous’ to think masks stop virus

The top health boss of a nation which handled its coronavirus crisis very differently has labelled evidence around masks as “astonishingly weak”.

Leaders

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 10, 2020. - Secret Service guards shot a person, who was apparently armed, outside the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said just after being briefly evacuated in the middle of a press conference. The president was abruptly ushered out of the press event and black-clad secret service agents with automatic rifles rushed across the lawn north of the White House. Minutes later, Trump reappeared at the press conference, where journalists had been locked in, and announced that someone had been shot outside the White House grounds. Trump said he knew nothing about the identity or motives of the person shot, but when asked if the person had been armed, answered:

Trump pounces on ‘unprecedented flub’

US President Donald Trump has claimed vindication on one of his pet election issues after an embarrassing blunder in one state.

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Australia: Two Sydney hospital workers test positive

Two staff members at a hospital in Sydney’s west have returned positive results within the past 24 hours.

A sign displaying the rules about remaining at a safe distance are attached to a mirror in the gymnasium at Nuffield Health Sunbury Fitness and Wellbeing Gym in Sunbury-on-Thames, west of London on July 25, 2020 as novel coronavirus lockdown restrictions are eased to allow gyms, leisure centres and indoor swimming pools in England to reopen. - England's gyms, leisure centres and indoor swimming pools were allowed to open their doors on July 25 for the first time since the March shutdown was introduced to combat the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP)

Man’s ‘whopping’ fines after going to gym

A man in Adelaide has been fined $6360 after going to the gym instead of staying in quarantine for 14 days.

Health Problems

Melburnians are rushing to markets and grocery stores ahead of a stage 4 lockdown.

Panic grips Melbourne pre-lockdown

Hordes of people have crammed grocery stores and markets as Victoria’s capital prepares to enter a stage 4 total lockdown, with cases rising.

Australian Coronavirus

Police speak to two women as they fine them for not wearing face masks in public without a valid reason, in Melbourne on July 31, 2020. - As greater Melbourne passed the halfway point of a lockdown initially intended to last six weeks, the state of Victoria - of which Melbourne is the capital - recorded over 600 new cases, leaving Premier Daniel Andrews to flag harsher restrictions in a bid to cut the infection rate. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Partygoers ‘hiding in closets’ fined

The people were attending an illegal party when police burst in, leading them to try to evade detection by hiding on the premises.

Australian Coronavirus

Nearly 400 cases expected in Victoria

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is expected to announce nearly 400 new cases of coronavirus today, as his state’s outbreak worsens.

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