Morning mail: Covid-positive nurses in hospitals, no free RATs, apocalyptic cinema

Tuesday: Asymptomatic nurses are being recalled to work in NSW. Plus: films about the end of the world are on the rise

Good morning. Covid-positive nurses are being recalled to work in NSW hospitals. Scott Morrison is resisting calls to make rapid antigen tests free. And Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre's legal deal with Jeffrey Epstein has been released.

Covid-positive nurses are being ordered to work in breach of NSW health protocols as hospital managers resort to desperate measures to staff their facilities that are buckling under the Omicron outbreak. As 2,500 health workers are in isolation across the state, Guardian Australia has been contacted by multiple nurses working across several hospitals who are alarmed at finding themselves working alongside Covid-positive colleagues. All of the nurses say they had received unofficial, verbal advice from their hospitals that Covid-positive nurses could leave their mandated isolation to work, provided they were asymptomatic and wore personal protective equipment.