Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Lorena Allam about the worst outbreak among Australia’s Aboriginal population in the pandemic so far
Covid-19 is spreading throughout western NSW – even infiltrating small, remote Indigenous communities – in what is now the worst outbreak for the Aboriginal population in this pandemic so far. Meanwhile vaccination rates for Indigenous people are lagging behind the general population, with particularly low rates across western NSW.
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