SBS Hindi News 8 January 2022: Australia sets a national record with a sharp rise of COVID case numbers

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In this latest SBS Hindi news bulletin: Australia records more than 116,000 cases of COVID-19 in a single day; Comonwealth Coronavirus Pandemic Leave payments extended to recognise positive rapid test results; New official modeling shows the NSW's hospitalisations of COVID-19 patients are up 3.2 per cent and more news.

Updated 08/01/2022

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