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That is a 25% jump in three weeks, you love to see it:
City of Hume, where much of Melbourne’s Muslim community lives, the first-dose vaccination rates have gone from 48% on the 6th of September to 73% today! Wow great effort.
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The ACT also recorded its first Covid-19 death for more than a year.
The first death of a Canberran with COVID-19 in over a year. The palliative care patient was in his 90s. He was in the Calvary Haydon facility, where the disease has spread over the past week. https://t.co/cfiXEhFwoT pic.twitter.com/4kpHTCrAg2
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Source: The Guardian