Medical deliveries by drone ready for take-off in Australia
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Medical deliveries by drone are ready for take-off in Australia, with startup Swoop Aero expecting to start bringing medicines to regional patients in May.
Swoop Aero has signed a deal with chemist chain TerryWhite Chemmart, and the first deliveries will be out of a pharmacy in Goondiwindi in the south of Queensland. Drones will be used to deliver medicines to customers within a 130 kilometres range of the town, sparing them trips of up to three hours to visit the pharmacy.
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A chemist has been slammed for charging almost $60 for a packet of disposable face masks ahead of a government lockdown.
Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli snapped an image of the display at a chemist in the Morayfield Shopping Centre in Brisbane s north, and then declared the move isn t on. Some shops in Brisbane are increasing mask sales by 400 per cent, taking advantage of people s anxiety, he told the Courier Mail. This (lockdown) is already hard enough for Queenslanders.
Face masks have increased in demand after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced all Brisbanites will be forced to wear a mask as health authorities scramble to contain an outbreak in the city.