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10.21PM – Dec 21, 2020 Reuters US President-elect Joe Biden plans to publicly receive a COVID-19 vaccine injection on Monday in an effort to boost confidence in its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year. Biden has vowed to make the fight against the coronavirus, which has killed more than 300,000 Americans and infected more than 17 million, his top priority when he takes office on January 20. At age 78, he is in the high-risk group for the highly contagious respiratory disease. Joe ...

Advertisement We are fortunate in Australia that we have achieved good control of COVID-19, from the moment we shut the international borders in mid-March. That, together with hotel quarantine, left us in a position to rapidly detect and stamp out epidemics as they arose, even the second wave in Victoria. Our fortunate status, however, is no reason for complacency. The cluster to emerge on Sydney’s northern beaches this week – along with the threat of another aged care outbreak –...