Coronavirus live news: Auckland finishes week of lockdown, England prepares to reopen schools
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Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has had her coronavirus jab, becoming one of the first in the country to get the Astrazeneca vaccine.
AAP reports Gillard joined Australia’s health minister Greg Hunt and to receive the Astrazeneca vaccine at a Melbourne clinic on Sunday, urging everyone, particularly women, to get the vaccine.
Two weeks ago prime minister Scott Morrison and chief medical officer Paul Kelly were among the first to be vaccinated with the Pfizer jab.
Auckland has come out of a weeklong lockdown imposed after a community cluster of the more contagious UK coronavirus variant.
There were no new local Covid-19 cases recorded on Sunday, health officials said, allowing for the restrictions to ease. If no community cases are confirmed during the rest of Sunday it would make a full seven days since the last community case.
Related: Auckland emerges from strict weeklong Covid lockdown
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