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More than a dozen coronavirus-related deaths have been announced at hospitals in mid and south Essex. NHS England data shows there have been 17 more fatalities recorded at Southend, Basildon and Broomfield hospitals in the past 24 hours. The deaths happened either on or between January 19 and 31. It takes the total number of Covid-related deaths at the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to 1,998. There were 15 more deaths announced by Essex hospitals, with 10 of those at the trust responsible for running Colchester and Ipswich hospitals. Another was recorded at Clacton Community Hospital and the other four at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.
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Subscriber only An infectious diseases expert says individual Hospital and Health Services will be responsible for managing the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines to regional areas, such as Mackay. But Griffith University s Nigel McMillan said many other unanswered questions remained about the distribution of the vaccine in local communities such as Mackay and the Whitsundays. Each health district will manage their own (rollout), Prof McMillan said. How each health service is going to manage that is up to each of those organisations. I don t know how they are going to do that. Queensland Health has already publicly stated that six major hospitals across the state will deliver the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to those of the highest priority.
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Subscriber only A Brisbane man who had returned from Melbourne in the peak of its months-long lockdown claims he was forced to catch a taxi on two occasions from hospital while in mandatory state imposed hotel quarantine - despite not yet returning a negative result to COVID-19. Joshua Walker, aged in his 20s, had been working in inner city Melbourne during the height of the country s COVID-19 pandemic in August - while the southern state had been thrust into hard lockdown after recording hundreds of coronavirus related deaths. The information comes to light as The Courier-Mail yesterday revealed a police investigation had been launched in relation to an alleged quarantine breach at a Gold Coast hotel.