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**    Duration of WHO-declared COVID-19 pandemic (a)  Wellcome Trust Publishers Pledge The first pandemic-related IP pledge addressed copyrights. On January 31, 2020, the Wellcome Trust, a large UK-based medical charity, led a group of approximately thirty scientific and medical publishers in committing to make all peer-reviewed research publications relating to COVID-19 available without charge on an open access basis. The signatories included Elsevier, Cell Press, Karger, the JAMA Network...

Date Time Work starts on parenting facility and region’s first Changing Place The City of Launceston has started work on a $600,000 redevelopment of the public toilets and parenting facilities in the Paterson St West multi-storey car park, which will include Northern Tasmania’s first ‘Changing Places’ accessible bathroom. The project is part of the City of Launceston’s Accelerated Capital Works Program, an initiative of the Care and Recovery Package, Tasmania’s largest local governm...