Friday: National cabinet to meet to decide on Covid relief payments. Plus: spider protein could reduce cardiac damage after heart attacks
Good morning. Victoria is waking up to its fifth lockdown. The national cabinet is convening to decide on lockdown support payments. Australia is under growing pressure as the US follows the EU lead on carbon tariffs. And a leaked Kremlin document suggests Russia launched a secret multi-agency effort to interfere in the 2016 US presidential elections.
Protesters rallied in Melbourne against Victoria’s five-day lockdown that state officials imposed until 11.59pm on Tuesday in an effort to contain 18 cases and two chains of transmission linked to the Sydney outbreak. In NSW, 65 new cases were recorded yesterday – but Gladys Berejiklian warned residents to expect higher numbers today. And people visiting GP clinics and pharmacies while infected have been identified as a new driver of the coronavirus spread.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/16/morning-mail-melbourne-lockdown-protest-kremlin-leak-funnel-web-venom-hope
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