Health authorities are warning that COVID-19 could be going undetected in New South Wales, after fragments of the virus were detected in a third sewage plant in two days.
Fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been found in the sewage system at Burwood Beach Treatment Plant from a sample taken on Wednesday.
The plant has a catchment of around 225,000 people and takes in Newcastle and the surrounding suburbs of Dudley, Charlestown, Jesmond, Lambton, New Lambton, Mayfield, Elermore Vale, Wallsend, Kotara, Garden Suburb, Adamstown Heights, Kahibah, Highfields, Merewether, Waratah West, Georgetown and Carrington.
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It follows similar health alerts issued yesterday for the sewage systems at Allambie Heights on Sydney s Northern Beaches and Merimbula on the NSW south coast.
Cases of Covid-19 are creeping up in some areas of Oldham as borough continues to top region s infection rates
Twelve of the borough’s neighbourhoods saw case numbers increase
The heat map of new Covid-19 cases in Oldham (Image: Gov.UK)
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Satanic panic on a Greater Manchester council estate: The long shadow cast by the ritual abuse scandal
Social workers snatched 20 children away from their families amid bizarre accusations of devil worship and occult rituals
Updated It s a disgrace. The lives of these innocent children and their parents have been irreparably ruined
At the crack of dawn on a May morning in 1990 a convoy of official cars crawled up the hill from Middleton to the sprawling council estate of Langley.
Once there, police officers and social workers converged on five homes.
Kids were roused from their beds, hurriedly dressed and taken off in tears as their distressed parents looked on in shock.
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By Simon Allin @SimonAllin3 Local Democracy Reporter, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey
Barnet Council was urged to go greener by the Labour group (Image: Canva/Pixabay) Councillors continued to row over parks, green spaces and climate change during a debate on Barnet Council’s budget. Conservatives outlined the support they were providing to residents and businesses during the coronavirus pandemic – including an extra £1 million to help low-income families with their council tax. But Labour leader Cllr Barry Rawlings told the Tories it was time they “woke up and smelt the Fairtrade coffee” as he urged greater action to protect the environment.