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DECEMBER 3 (GMT) – DECEMBER 4 (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 3 USA WORLD AUSTRALIA Trump escalates claims China releases images of moon Censored post disappoints President Donald Trump stood before A Chinese spacecraft landed on the The Australian government is a White House lectern and delivered a moon this week to bring back lunar disappointed a Chinese social media 46-minute diatribe against the election rocks to Earth for the first time since company has censored a post by the results that produced a win for Democrat the 1970s, the government announced. prime minister. Scott Morrison used Joe Biden, reiterating his baseless claim China’s National Space Administration WeChat to respond to an offensive tweet that he really won. said Chang’e 5 “successfully landed” at its by a senior Chinese government official. designated site shortly after 1500GMT after making a powered descent from its orbiter. UK EUROPE NEW ZEALAND ‘Challenges’ with vaccine rollout Putin’s ‘large-scale’ vaccination New cases for NZ, five historical Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned President Vladimir Putin ordered a “large- Nine new cases of Covid-19 in managed of the “immense logistical challenges” scale” COVID-19 immunisation campaign isolation facilities are being reported by in distributing the newly approved to start by late next week, with doctors the Ministry of Health today, including coronavirus vaccine as it emerged that and teachers set to be first in line to get a five historical cases. most care home residents will need to Russian-designed vaccine that has yet to wait for their jab. complete the advanced studies needed to ensure its effectiveness and safety in line with established scientific protocols. 1 DECEMBER 3 (GMT) – DECEMBER 4 (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 6 WORLD WORLD AUSTRALIA SKoreans take exam amid virus Turkey announces vaccine plan Tasmania opens up borders Hundreds of thousands of masked Turkey’s health minister has announced Tasmania is open to all states and students in South Korea, including 35 a vaccination plan starting with an territories for the first time in nine confirmed COVID-19 patients, took the experimental “inactivated vaccine” later months after dropping border highly competitive university entrance this month to combat the COVID-19 restrictions with South Australia. Arrivals exam despite a viral resurgence that pandemic amid a surge in infections and from SA no longer have to quarantine, as forced authorities to toughen social deaths. of 12.01am on Thursday. distancing rules. USA UK NEW ZEALAND Controversial jet in the air Royal Navy detonates WWII mine Positive news for finances American Airlines is taking its long- A Second World War mine found by The government’s finances are in much grounded Boeing 737 Max jets out of divers in the Firth of Clyde has been better shape than expected, with strong storage, updating key flight-control detonated by the Royal Navy. The domestic spending propping up the tax software, and flying the planes in “pristine” mine, confirmed as being a take. Official figures show a deficit of preparation for the first flights with German submarine-laid device, still $3.8 billion for the four months ended paying passengers later this month. contained about 350kg of explosives. October, less than half the amount forecast before the election. 2 DECEMBER 3 (GMT) – DECEMBER 4 (AEST), 2020 - AAP Boris Johnson. - PA USA UK Trump escalates election ‘Challenges’ with vaccine claims rollout President Donald Trump stood before a White House Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of the lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the “immense logistical challenges” in distributing the newly election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe approved coronavirus vaccine as it emerged that most Biden, reiterating his baseless claim that he really won. care home residents will need to wait for their jab. Trump called his address, released only on social media and The UK became the first country in the world to give the go- delivered in front of no audience, perhaps “the most important ahead to the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech on Wednesday, speech” of his presidency. But it was largely a recycling of the paving the way for vaccinations to start next week. same unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud that he has But the recommendation from the Joint Committee on been making for the past month. Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises ministers, “The constitutional process must be allowed to continue,” he that care home residents and staff should be the top priority said. cannot yet be fully carried out. “We are going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said the that every legal ballot is counted and that no illegal ballot jab has to be stored at such low temperatures that it can only is counted. This is not just about honoring the votes of 74 be moved a few times. Each pack of doses cannot be easily million Americans who voted for me, it’s about ensuring that split and the 975 doses they contain would be too many for Americans can have faith and this election and in all future individual care homes, meaning the vaccine would be wasted. elections.” Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Johnson Trump, who spoke from the Diplomatic Room, kept up his acknowledged the “immense logistical challenges”, adding: “It pushback against the election even as state after state certifies will inevitably take some months before all the most vulnerable its results and as Biden presses ahead with shaping his Cabinet are protected – long, cold months. in advance of his inauguration on January 20. “So it’s all the more vital that as we celebrate this scientific Biden received a record 80 million votes compared to achievement we are not carried away with over-optimism or fall 74 million for Trump. The Democrat also won 306 electoral into the naive belief that the struggle is over.” votes compared to 232 for Trump. The Electoral College split Sir Simon told a Downing Street briefing that the first people matches Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton four years ago. to receive the jab from 50 hospital hubs next week would be Trump dug further into his contention of a “rigged the over-80s, care home staff and others identified by the JCVI election” even though members of his own administration, who may already have a hospital appointment. including Attorney General William Barr, say that no proof of GP practices will then operate local vaccination centres widespread voter fraud has been uncovered. Courts in multiple as more vaccine becomes available and, if regulators give battleground states have thrown out a barrage of lawsuits filed approval for a safe way of splitting packs, care homes will on behalf of the president. ■ receive stocks, he added. Sir Simon said it would take until March or April for the entire at-risk population to be vaccinated. But later in the briefing, he insisted the NHS was “raring to go” to vaccinate people in care homes, hopefully this month. ■ 3 DECEMBER 3 (GMT) – DECEMBER 4 (AEST), 2020 - AP Russian President Vladimir Putin. - AP WORLD EUROPE China releases images of Putin orders ‘large-scale’ moon landing COVID vaccination A Chinese spacecraft landed on the moon this week to President Vladimir Putin ordered a “large-scale” bring back lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since COVID-19 immunisation campaign to start by late next the 1970s, the government announced. week, with doctors and teachers set to be first in line to get a Russian-designed vaccine that has yet to complete China’s National Space Administration said Chang’e 5 the advanced studies needed to ensure its effectiveness “successfully landed” at its designated site shortly after and safety in line with established scientific protocols. 1500GMT after making a powered descent from its orbiter. It released footage filmed by cameras onboard the Putin’s action came hours after Britain became the first country spacecraft, showing the barren scene at the landing site and in the West to authorise the use of a vaccine against the the lander’s shadow. coronavirus developed by US drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s The probe, launched on November 24 from the tropical BioNTech. southern island of Hainan, is the latest venture by a Chinese Russia touted its domestically developed vaccine, Sputnik space program that sent its first astronaut into orbit in 2003, V, as the world’s “first registered COVID-19 vaccine” after has a spacecraft en route to Mars and aims eventually to land the government gave it regulatory approval in early August. a human on the moon. However, giving the shots the go-ahead drew considerable It is expected to spend about two days drilling into the lunar criticism from experts, because at the time the Sputnik V only surface and collecting two kilograms (4.4 pounds) of rocks and had been tested on several dozen people. debris. The Russian leader said at the time that the early vaccine The samples will be lifted up into orbit and transferred to recipients included one of his daughters. a return capsule for the trip to Earth, where it is to land in Putin said that more than two million doses of the Sputnik V China’s northern grasslands in mid-December. ■ jab “has been produced or will have been produced in the next few days.” “This gives us the opportunity to start if not mass, but large- scale vaccination, and of course, as we agreed, first of all of the two risk groups – doctors and teachers,” Putin told government officials.

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