Coronavirus live news: Australia 'close to vaccine deal', England scraps public health agency

Australian health minister ‘genuinely optimistic’ about vaccine in 2021, as British health secretary announces new pandemic authority and France records 3,000 new cases

The Australian government has also put extreme limits on citizens and residents wanting to leave the country, causing extreme distress for people wanting to reunite with family or rush to be with sick relatives.

According to a report in Nine newspapers this morning, federal MPs are starting to question it.

From Reuters in Trinidad and Tobago, where the government are about to bring in tougher anti-virus measures after the number of infections increased this month.

The Caribbean nation registered a jump in Covid-19 cases in August after a gradual rise in July, and has now recorded 474 cases and ten fatalities. Two of the deaths were reported on Friday.

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