By Hope NewsroomThursday 25 Feb 2021NewsReading Time: 1 minute
Today’s headlines from the Hope News team. You can listen to hourly bulletin updates at hopenews.com.au.
New South Wales Health officials are contacting those who’ve arrived from New Zealand since last Saturday to see if they’ve visited hotspot venues amid a growing COVID-19 cluster in Auckland.
Anyone arriving from today will have to go into hotel quarantine for 14 days.
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Ghana has become the first country to receive free coronavirus vaccines through a global initiative to make sure poorer countries don’t miss out.
Meanwhile, US regulators say Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine is safe and could be approved within days.
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Queensland’s Premier says hosting the Olympic Games in 2032 would give the State much needed hope.
The International Olympic Committee has named Brisbane the preferred candidate city.
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New South Wales drivers are increasingly being caught by mobile speed cameras since warning signs were removed.
Nearly nine times more motorists were caught speeding in January this year compared to the same time last year.
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The place we call home has an influence on our life expectancy.
Researchers at Torrens University have found people living in the Hills, Northern Beaches and the North Shore have an average life span of 88 years.
It drops to 67 for Sydney’s CBD.
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It’s been 40 years since the Cochlear ear implant was invented.
Professor Graeme Clarke came up with the idea after seeing his father struggling with hearing loss.