Australia is not in lockdown, nearly half of its population hasn’t received the vaccine or wouldn’t take it at all, yet the country has reported no deaths from COVID in all of 2021.
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration says the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine far outweigh the risks after a woman died from a blood clot in the brain in the state of New South Wales (NSW).
Liberal MP Gareth Ward says a Sydney school’s decision to promote partisan political issues in class fell “far short” of the standards set by the minister for education.