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Students to return: The back-to-school plans for each state

Students and teachers in Victoria and NSW will be required to undergo two rapid antigen tests per week, as states prepare their back-to-school plans.

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NSW and Victoria schools reopening plans focus on Covid surveillance testing but scrap contact tracing

Twice-weekly rapid tests, mandatory masks and booster shots for teachers are crucial to both states’ near-identical plans

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Two Australian states to test school students twice weekly for COVID

Australia reported 58 deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, as the two most populous states, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, said students would be tested twice weekly for the Omicron variant when classes resume next week.

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Canberra records 694 new cases as NSW releases back to school plan

There are three people in ICU of a total 67 hospitalised cases. Two people are ventilated.

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RATs for pupils in NSW back-to-school plan

Two rapid antigen tests per week will be supplied to students and teachers across NSW schools as part of COVID-19 measures for the start of the school year.

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Patients left without crucial information as Covid puts pressure on NSW interpreting services

Lack of staff and funding can have potentially ‘catastrophic’ outcomes for patients left in the dark without language services, interpreters say

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NSW unveils its much-anticipated back-to-school plan as state records 34 COVID-19 deaths

Students and teachers in NSW will be required to take two rapid antigen tests a week and be subjected to mask mandates when school returns for term 1.

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NSW and Victoria reveal back-to-school plans – as it happened

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COVID updates: Millions of RAT kits sent to schools as NSW and Victoria reveal education plans — as it happened

Students and teachers in NSW and Victoria will have access to weekly rapid antigen tests, with those states planning to do away with school closures when classes resume. Our coronavirus updates — as it happened

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The Right stuff: why shellshocked NSW Liberal moderates are fearing factional fights

Tim James’s preselection in Gladys Berejiklian’s former NSW seat shows the growing influence of the hard right in the state

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Man convicted of murder of US mathematician Scott Johnson lodges appeal days after guilty plea

Scott White admitted to the killing in court earlier this month but now appeals against his conviction

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Whitehaven underground extension gets planning approval

Whitehaven Coal's Narrabri underground mine has received planning approval to extend its longwall operations and prolong the life of the mine by 13 years to 2044.

Newcastle Herald

Boy, 9, dies after NSW vehicle rollover

Police say a recreation vehicle has rolled over in regional NSW, leaving a nine-year-old boy dead and injuring a 41-year-old man.

AAP

Western Australia races to contain Perth Covid cluster as Greg Hunt declines to condemn border decision

New South Wales records 30 Covid deaths, Victoria 20, Queensland 10, South Australia three and Tasmania one

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Australia's Queensland state says peak of Omicron two weeks away

Australia reported 64 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, as the most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), said the Omicron COVID-19 variant would not delay the start of the school year.

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Man dies in NSW river after fleeing police

The body of a man who ran from a traffic stop in the NSW mid north coast town of Taree has been recovered from the Manning River.

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NSW records 30 deaths from COVID-19, hospitalisations increase to 2,762

NSW is in a good position to manage further likely increased COVID-19 case numbers when schools return and post-holidays, Dominic Perrottet says, as the state records 2,762 patients and 30 new COVID-19 deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm.

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NSW records 30 deaths, Victoria 20, Qld 10, SA three and Tasmania one – as it happened

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Locals ‘devastated’ after Whitehaven Coal allowed to bury used tyres at Maules Creek mine

NSW government’s approval compromises ‘environmental integrity of the operation’, say campaigners

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NSW may have hit its Omicron peak based on hospital data — and that's good news for other states

The evidence is firming up that at least one state — New South Wales — has reached its hospitalisation peak for this wave of the pandemic.

AAP

NSW still awaiting school COVID-safe plan

NSW parents are still waiting to hear how the government plans to keep school children safe when they return to school at the end of the month.

AAP

Postal vote option for NSW by-elections

Residents of four NSW electorates due to vote in by-elections on February 12 will all have the option to do so via post, as the state's COVID outbreak goes on.

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Brad Hazzard promises Eurobodalla Hospital will open as a level four facility

As by-election campaigns ramp up, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has assured Eurobodalla residents that the region's new hospital will be a level four facility.

The Guardian - AU

Australia has had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic – here’s what we know about who is dying

As the nation reaches the deadliest stage of the entire coronavirus pandemic, the protective effects of the vaccine remain clear

The New Daily

CHO reveals common conditions behind elevated virus risks

NSW's chief health officer has revealed the common conditions that can lead to a elevated risk of death from COVID, on a day of record fatalities.

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