SBS Sinhala current Affair: "Omicron" confirmed in Australia

Listen to the SBS Sinhala feature with the latest information on COVID-19, reported from Australia

State and territory leaders say Australia will be "suppressing", not eliminating, the spread of COVID-19 Omicron variant Source: AAP Image/AP Photo/Mark Baker

Highlights

• New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT have brought in new rules for all international arrivals amid concern over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
• Australia has shut its international borders to nine southern African countries.
• Another Aboriginal remote community in Northern Territory has gone into lockdown

 

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