Crime by SAM FLANAGAN, SHAYLA BULLOCH 22nd May 2021 6:27 PM
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Subscriber only The Townsville woman who was found in a pool of blood after being fatally stabbed in the neck on Friday has been identified. Emergency services rushed to a unit complex in Riverway Dr, Condon where Kayla Golding laid on the footpath bleeding out just before 7.30pm. Members of the Queensland Ambulance Service performed CPR on Miss Golding at the scene before she was transported to Townsville University Hospital. She was declared deceased a short time later. The 29-year-old has been remembered fondly on social media after her passing.
Australia has rejected calls to buy the highly-regarded, one-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine to replace the scrapped AstraZeneca rollout.
The country s vaccination plan was thrown into chaos when a link to a rare blood clotting was discovered in the AstraZeneca jab.
Anyone under 50 is now advised against getting it and states are refusing to administer it unless the patient already had their first shot.
The government was in talks last week with Johnson & Johnson and manufacturer Janssen, which asked for approval for its vaccine from Australia s medicine regulator.
Federal Health minister Greg Hunt has ruled out proceeding with the purchase at this stage because it is too similar to the AstraZeneca drug - which raised fears over blood clotting in a small number of cases