SBS Sinhala news on 23 Sep 2021: Western and South Australian states are in COVID threat again due to a truck driver from NSW

A truck driver is stopped at the NSW-Victoria border

A truck driver is stopped at the NSW-Victoria border Source: SBS News

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Today's News Highlights

  • Victorians have been warned to brace for more aftershocks after the state's largest earthquake in recorded history
  • Melbourne is bracing for its fourth day of Anti Vaccine protests by construction workers
  • Victorian teachers and childcare workers will be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before they return to work.
  • A New South Wales-based truck driver who visited Western Australia and South Australia last week has tested positive for COVID-19, prompting public warnings of over exposure sites.
  • President of Sri Lanka, Gotabhya Rajapaksha addresses the 76th UN General Assembly
  • French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed he will send an ambassador back to the United States next week
  • Attackers have struck Taliban vehicles in eastern Afghanistan killing at least two fighters and three civilians
  • Prime Minister Scott Morrison has held a bilateral meeting with United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon
  • The term 'batsman' has been amended to the gender-neutral term 'batter' in the Laws of Cricket

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