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The Covid-19 pandemic was preventable, an independent review panel has said.

The Australian Football League has contacted more than 50,000 fans who attended Friday’s Richmond- Geelong match, amid fears hundreds may have been exposed to COVID-19 on the train.

America’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci says India is in such “dire straits” because it made the “incorrect assumption” that they were finished with the COVID-19 and opened up prematurely.

Seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, officials say.

Dozens more bodies have washed up on the banks of the Ganges in northern India as the country struggles with a second Covid wave.

Palestinian militants say they fired 130 missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike felled a tower block in the Gaza Strip.

Countries worldwide have appealed for calm after days of unrest spiralled into retaliatory attacks by Israel and Palestinians.

The US has authorised the Pfizer vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds as the US pushes to get the shot into more Americans’ arms.

The bodies of at least 40 people have washed up on the banks of the Ganges river in northern India, officials say.

Israel has launched air strikes against militant targets in the Gaza Strip, after rockets were fired from the territory towards Jerusalem.

At least four people have been injured, three of whom are now in critical condition, after a stabbing attack at a New Zealand supermarket.

When millions of devout Hindus gathered last month in the Himalayan town of Haridwar, many feared that it would turn out to be a “super-spreader event”.