AstraZeneca became the latest pharmaceutical company to unveil positive data in the global race for a coronavirus vaccine.

More than 23,000 adults are currently being assessed in the trials in the US, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Kenya and Latin America. 

Oxford professor Andrew Pollard says their dosing regimens may be around 90 per cent effective and so more people could be vaccinated with a planned vaccine supply. 

AstraZeneca say they are looking at producing three billion doses of the vaccine in 2021.

Another food delivery worker was killed in Australia, bringing the death toll to five in just two months.

The cyclist was hit by a truck in Sydney just days after an Uber Eats rider was hit by a car in Sydney. 

The Transport Workers’ Union has called for food delivery riders to be better protected, saying Australia is facing “a crisis of national importance”.

Tasmania will conduct a commission of inquiry into child sex abuse in public institutions like schools and youth detention centres. 

The inquiry will begin in 2021 and last 12 months. 

Premier Peter Gutwein says survivors will be able to come forward because of the new inquiry. 

He believes it will ensure the safety of Tasmanian children in the future.

Victoria have discharged their last COVID-19 patient from hospital.

The Department of Health and Human services have confirmed the man left hospital yesterday.

The state now have zero active cases.

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast severe thunderstorms today and a low-intensity heatwave later this week.

The Bureau also said Queensland could face up to six cyclones this summer due to a climate phenomenon called La Nina. 

This system brought on Cyclone Yasi and the 2011 floods in the Sunshine state causing catastrophic damage.

The Brisbane City Council has requested a local man rewrite a petition he wrote last week regarding lord mayor Adrian Schrinner.

Coorparoo man Kierian Wilson criticised the council’s rejection of Labor councillor Kara Cook’s request to work remotely, including attending conferences via video call, after giving birth.

The Council are insisting that Ms Cook was never told that she could not attend meetings remotely, but that it was not yet possible with the council’s existing technology