Key Points
- Residents of Echuca are facing evacuation warnings with the Murray River near the New South Wales border with Victoria set to peak from today
- Philippines detects cases of highly transmissible XBB Omicron sub-variant and XBC recombinant of Covid-19
- Qatar Airways says it is cutting back on its own flights to enable the arrival of fans for next month's World Cup
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![Communications Minister Anika Wells has written to the C-E-Os of Optus, Telstra and T-P-G and will meet them in Canberra on Tuesday [[7 Oct]] over Triple Zero concerns ahead of disaster season.](https://images.sbs.com.au/dims4/default/88105e7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/859x483+25+0/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff1%2Fbe%2F11da887a4d3fa89fb4473d14cb10%2Fito-na.png&imwidth=1280)
