A damning new audit has exposed one Aussie state’s eye-watering Covid spending blowout - with the true cost to taxpayers still unknown. FULL STORY: ‘Waste’: State’s $40bn Covid bill lashed
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- Had a mandatory lockdown been imposed one week earlier in March 2020, there would have been about 23,000 fewer deaths, the report concluded.
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- People with Down’s syndrome were not added to the shielded patient list until September 2020, the report said.
- For future emergencies, the report recommended central taskforces in the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, alongside earlier, tougher interventions.
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