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Australia's ex-prime minister Scott Morrison denies he effectively ran a shadow government during his time in office, saying it was necessary during the pandemic to secretly appoint himself to several ministerial posts. "I believed it was necessary to have authority to have what were effectively emergency powers to exercise in extreme situations", Morrison said at a press conference on Wednesday. The revelations have sparked a political firestorm in Australia, with his successor Anthony Albanese promising a rapid investigation and accusing Morrison of carrying out an "unprecedented trashing of our democracy".
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison receives his second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, joined by Jane Malysiak, a WWII veteran who was the first ever Australian to receive the vaccine.
In Ireland there are only 22 ICU beds available for use. Almost half of all the country's COVID-19 cases were reported in the last fortnight.
George Papandreou said Greece is using the lessons of the financial crisis to deal with the pandemic.
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg discussed the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic in her country. She also called for "stronger multilateral cooperation" and urged more countries to contribute to a multi-donor fund Norway has created at the United Nations to help developing nations deal with the consequences of the global health crisis.
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