Today is AUGUST 24, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, new modelling shows the impact the current national plan targets to reopen Australia will have on deaths and long Covid cases, and a mental health ward at Calvary Public Hospital in Bruce is being cleared to prepare for a Covid specialist respiratory ward.

Today is AUGUST 23, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the community sector has urged transparency about a Covid outbreak in Canberra's disability care sector, and workers at an ACT construction site will have to provide evidence they have had their first Covid vaccine or evidence of a booking.

Today is AUGUST 20, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Many Canberrans in their 20s are looking to AstraZeneca for protection amid an outbreak of the coronavirus, and an inner-north childcare centre has closed its doors for deep cleaning after a positive Covid case visited the site.

Today is AUGUST 19, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Chief Minister Andrew Barr has warned Canberra is at a critical phase of the latest Covid outbreak, and the first Australian evacuation flight has left Kabul with 26 people on board.

Today is AUGUST 18, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT is grappling with an extraordinary demand for testing as thousands enter home quarantine, and ACT senator Katy Gallagher is in home quarantine after her daughter Evie tested positive for COVID-19.

Today is AUGUST 16, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Canberra could face a longer COVID-19 lockdown, and ACT Health names more exposure sites.

Today is AUGUST 13, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT has begun a seven-day lockdown after four cases of COVID-19 were confirmed to have been infectious in the community, and testing sites have been overwhelmed by a surge in demand.

Covid lockdowns will rip $35 million from the ACT economy in school visits alone, and climate activists charged over vandalism of Parliament House have accused the government of committing atrocities by refusing to address climate change.