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Casino giant Crown Resorts is not fit to run its $2.2 billion Sydney casino because it facilitated money laundering and has other "deep" problems, a highly anticipated report has found.

A hotel quarantine worker and released guest of the same Melbourne quarantine hotel where an infected staff member worked have tested positive for COVID-19.

Businesses have started the year in a more optimistic mood, while confidence among Australians more generally is running close to the long-run average as the nation tries to put aside the devastation of the 2020 recession.

Russia's updated statistics on coronavirus-linked deaths show that 162,429 people with COVID-19 had died in the pandemic last year, a number much higher than previously reported by government officials.

Victorian authorities are looking to make COVID-19 testing compulsory for hotel quarantine workers on their days off, after a second worker contracted the virus in less than a week.

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A Queensland woman has suffered a chest injury and cuts to her arms after an encounter with a kangaroo in the state's north.

Daily saliva testing for COVID-19 has begun across South Australia's quarantine hotels as the state government continues to boost security around people returning from overseas.

President Joe Biden says it will be difficult for the United States to reach herd immunity, at least 75 per cent of the population inoculated against coronavirus, before the end of August.

The man who will give the final tick of approval to COVID-19 vaccines in Australia says transparency during the rollout is critical, while the federal government has announced certificates will be provided to those having the jab.