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I mentioned before that the 30-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Covid-19 in the emote community of Robinson River is the sister of federal Labor senator for the NT Malarndirri McCarthy.
McCarthy has just appeared on ABC RN to discuss the worrying implication of the Delta variant entering a remote Indigenous community, and the stress her family are now under:
Before I went to sleep last night, family members were still quite anxious ... We’ve got five-year-old twins who have been infected with Covid. It is a very serious time ...
Most of them are double-vaxxed, which I was very pleased to hear ... Some had already gone to try and get a vaccination, and this is where it’s been quite despairing. These vaccinations should’ve occurred earlier this year ...
First Nations media organisations started receiving funding in September. That’s way too slow, way too late. The damage had already set in.
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