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Victoria has 13 virus deaths,240 new cases

Victoria has had 13 more coronavirus fatalities, taking the state’s death toll to 376 and the national figure to 463. It also reported 240 new cases and while this was an increase on the previous day the state’s five-day run of numbers under 300 continues. But a cluster at Frankston Hospital in Melbourne southeast is… Read More »

Grave Shortages of P.P.E. Gear Flare Again as Covid Cases Surge

As coronavirus cases surge across the country, hospitals, nursing homes and private medical practices are facing a problem many had hoped would be resolved by now: a dire shortage of respirator masks, isolation gowns and disposable gloves that protect front-line medical workers from infection. Unlike the crisis that caught a handful of big city hospitals… Read More »