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PM Says COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Can Be Completed By Christmas [Headlines] With a boost of Pfizer vaccine, supplies are set to triple to one million doses a week in the second half of July. And more top news. Today’s headlines from the Hope News team. You can listen to hourly bulletin updates at hopenews.com.au. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the COVID-19 vaccine rollout can be completed by Christmas with a boost in supply of the Pfizer vaccine. Supplies are set to triple to one million doses a week in the second half of July. … Residents of Sydney’s south western suburbs who leave ...

Mass vaccination centres will be set up across NSW to deliver up to 200,000 jabs a week, as the state scrambles to avoid another crippling Covid-19 outbreak. Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced on Thursday morning that huge vaccine hubs with large supplies of Pfizer will be built in Sydney CBD, Macquarie Fields in the city's south-west, and in Wollongong. The Sydney City clinic will be set up near public transportation hubs and open for extended hours to cater to CBD workers. New hubs will be in addition to the centre at Sydney Olympic Park, and another in the Hunter Region which is due to ...

Lockdown continues in Western Australia Western Australia recorded no new cases, with the premier, Mark McGowan, saying the lockdown for Perth and the Peel region had brought some time for contact tracers to get on top of any locally acquired cases. “This is amazingly encouraging news,” he said. “But we cannot afford to get complacent. So I’m appealing to every Western Australian: we need you to get tested.” McGowan raised concerns at overseas arrivals coming through the state, saying although hotel quarantine was safe, it still posed some risk. “We’ve done our utmost to make ho...

Sydneysiders have taken to decorating telephone poles with Covid stickers after leaving hospitals dotted around the city. Hundreds of coloured stickers have been stuck to poles outside St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown. Those that have had no need to visit hospitals in recent times were perplexed by the recent trend, which started after Covid first hit the city. When visitors enter Sydney hospitals to visit a patient they are asked a set of Covid-related questions to sign in, before being handed a sticker if deemed low risk. The admittance s...

When Fire and Rescue NSW crews arrived at the scene, the house was well alight. Crews reported flames of about two metres coming out of all of the windows. While almost everyone in the house was able to escape the fire, a teenage boy was unable to be found. Once firefighters put the fire out, they went inside the home and found a body in an upstairs bedroom. NSW Police superintendent Julian Griffiths said it was too early to formally identify the body and police were still in the preliminary stages of the investigation.(9News) NSW Fire and Rescue Deputy Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell said the s...