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Imogen Reid is a journalist and digital producer who began her career at The Australian as a cadet in 2019 after moving from a reporting role at news.com.au. She has covered varied assignments including hard news, lifestyle and travel. Most recently she has been focused on driving engagement across The Australian’s multiple digital products.

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LIVE: Coronavirus crisisNation

Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel at Circular Quay which is hosting those in quarantine from the airport. Picture: Dylan Robinson

US traveller ‘gave Sydney hotel guard virus’

A security guard at Sydney’s Marriott Hotel who allegedly caught COVID-19 from a returned traveller worked at other locations while infectious.

Tessa Akerman, Rachel Baxendale and Imogen Reid

LIVE: Coronavirus crisisNation

Doutta Galla Aged Services in Yarraville where coronavirus infections have occurred during Melbourne's second wave of COVID-19. Residents could be evacuated after an outbreak at the nursing home. AUSMAT medical response team arrive at the aged care facility. Picture: Sarah Matray

City of Sydney declared a virus hotspot

NSW Health has declared the City of Sydney a COVID-19 hotspot after outbreaks near the nightlife hub of Kings Cross and at a selective high school.

Rachel Baxendale and Imogen Reid

Coronavirus NZWorld

Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media about changing the 2020 general election date during a press conference at the Parliament in Wellington on August 17, 2020. - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on August 17 delayed New Zealand's looming election by four weeks to October 17 after a renewed coronavirus outbreak hampered campaigning. New Zealand, whose original election date had been set for September 19, is battling a return of COVID-19 which last week forced the country's largest city Auckland into lockdown and ended 102 days without community transmission. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

Ardern postpones election until Oct 17

Jacinda Ardern has postponed the NZ election due to concerns over the resurgence of coronavirus in the community.

Anne Barrowclough and Imogen Reid

LIVE: Coronavirus crisisNation

French engineer-virologist Thomas Mollet divides a 40ml flask, infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus, under a laminar flow at the Biosafety level 3 laboratory (BSL3) of the Valneva SE Group headquarters in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, western France, on July 30, 2020. - Could the Covid-19 vaccine be found by a biotechnology company in western France, far from major global research centers? The hypothesis is more than plausible for the British government, which has just signed an important agreement with it. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)

Britain snaps up virus vaccines

Britain buys up 90 million doses of two new vaccines which could be delivered in mid-2021, as doubts cloud hotel’s ‘patient zero’.

Remy Varga, Rachel Baxendale and Imogen Reid

LIVE: Coronavirus crisisNation

A man walks past the Stamford Plaza Hotel, used as an isolation hotel from returned travellers from overseas as part of measures against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Melbourne on July 22, 2020. - An inquiry into how the virus spread in Melbourne heard this week that many cases were likely linked to infection control breaches at hotels used to quarantine residents returning from overseas, with Australia reporting 501 new cases on July 22. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Recordings to reveal truth on hotel quarantine

Recordings are likely to exist of crucial talks on whether to use ADF personnel for Victorian hotel security as the war of words continues over bungled quarantine.

John Ferguson, Rachel Baxendale and Imogen Reid

MICHELLE BRIGHT MURDER CHARGENation

Police have charged Craig Henry Rumsby with the 1999 murder of Michelle Bright. Picture: Supplied/NSW Police

Mother’s relief, shock after long wait for justice

Loraine Bright waited 21 years for answers to who killed her daughter. One day a $1m reward was offered, the breakthrough came.

David Murray and Adeshola Ore

LIVE: Coronavirus crisisNation

Residents are taken away from CraigCare aged care in Pascoe Vale in medical transport. Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Picture: David Crosling

Aged care, schools leading virus hotspots

Data reveals aged care settings are the most common site of transmission in Victoria, along with schools, abattoirs and hospitals.

Remy Varga, Imogen Reid and Rachel Baxendale

LIVENation

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - AUGUST 06: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern makes an adjournment speech at Parliament on August 06, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Parliament will be dissolved next Wednesday 12 August, ahead of the 2020 New Zealand general election which will be held on 19 September 2020. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Ardern orders Auckland back into lockdown

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered Auckland into lockdown after four new coronavirus cases — New Zealand’s first community infections in 102 days.

Remy Varga, Rachel Baxendale and Imogen Reid

LIVE: Coronavirus crisisNation

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, left, and two teens arrested in Noosa for skipping quarantine

Deaths spike by 100 in less than 10 days

Coronavirus deaths have raced past 300, increasing by more than 100 in less than 10 days, amid warnings that more people will perish because of the ‘devastating effect’ on aged-care facilities.

Rachel Baxendale, Imogen Reid and Sarah Elks

Wild weatherNation

Fire rescue section off a driveway after a Tree fell on a car, in the driveway of a unit complex on McBurney Road Cabramatta Picture : Steve Tyson Time : OVernight

Major flood warnings, wind batters coast

A severe system lashing the south east coast has resulted in more than 800 calls for help to the NSW SES.

Imogen Reid and Greg Brown

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