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11.22pm BST

Last month, 99.2% of people who died from covid in America had 1 thing in common. They had not been vaccinated.

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11.06pm BST

Jane Halton, former head of the federal Department of Health in Australia, said the country's government needs to be doing more to ensure it's easy for aged care workers to vaccinated.

She says this could include sending in teams to homes, rather than just relying on workers to get the jab in their own time.

That would be our preference.

Our preference would be that this is made as easy as possible for workers. We've done this for the aged care residents themselvess, our preference would be that this made is made as easy as possible.