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   Numbers vary depending on whether local officials just note   
   a death that happened to occur during the heatwave   
   and those that look for signs of heat stress in the victim.   
      
   But the lower number cited below may be the most accurate.   
      
   It's possible to calculate the number just based on how many   
   degrees the temp is above normal for this time of year.   
   I won't bother with that exercise at this point.   
      
      
   Canada heat wave: More than 230 deaths reported in British ...   
   CNN, 30 Jun 2021 0:50Z   
   More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Fri as   
   a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said   
   Tue. The province's chief coroner called it ...   
      
   Sweltering heat wave linked to sudden deaths in Vancouver   
   ABC, 30 Jun 2021 03:06Z   
   Canadian police say a sweltering heat wave that has settled over western   
   Canada for several days is ...   
      
   BREAKING (30 Jun): Vancouver has reported 60 "sudden deaths" linked with the   
   unprecedented heatwave.   
      
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   Northwest heat wave wilts new GOP climate resolve   
   POLITICO, 30 Jun 2021 02:27Z   
   A week ago, 3 lawmakers from the Northwest joined dozens of their   
   Republican colleagues in creating the new Conservative Climate Caucus to   
   show they ...   
      
   [Leadership!]   
   COVID-positive NSW govt minister blasts vaccine rollout as 'abysmal'   
   ABC New England, 30 Jun 2021 01:41Z   
   A week into his COVID-enforced isolation, Adam Marshall has described the   
   federal govt's handling of the rollout as "a shambles".   
      
   [NSW case numbers still accelerating:]   
   NSW records 22 new COVID-19 cases on day 5 of lockdown   
   ABC News, 30 Jun 2021 01:40Z   
   NSW records 22 new COVID-19 cases on day 5 of its lockdown, as the   
   govt announces mandatory QR code check-ins for a swathe of new venues   
   including schools and offices.   
      
   For the first time, anyone entering NSW from Qld must fill in a border   
   declaration pass   
   ABC Gold Coast, 30 Jun 2021 02:36Z   
   The border declaration pass is a first for border residents -- who   
   need passes to enter both Queensland and NSW. Anxious business owners   
   say the new rule is "mystifying and confusing".   
   [Alice Springs will go into lockdown after it was discovered a fly-in   
   miner who tested -ve on arrival later developed covid symptoms and all   
   his house-mates have tested +ve].   
      
   [Money & political connections:]   
   Australia's borders 'not genuinely closed': Queensland's Deputy Premier   
   takes aim at federal govt's arrivals policy   
   ABC News, 30 Jun 2021 02:56Z   
   Queensland's Deputy Premier is doubling down on his criticism of the   
   Commonwealth's overseas arrivals policy after it was revealed a person going   
   between Indonesia and Australia had passed on the Delta variant to a   
   19-year-old hospital worker prompting a three-day lockdown.   
      
     Queensland COVID cluster linked to international traveller 'allowed to come   
     and go' as 3 new cases recorded   
     ABC News, 30 Jun 2021 0:42Z   
     Queensland records 3 new community cases of COVID-19 on the first day of   
     lockdown as it is revealed the latest cluster of the virus stemmed from a   
     person who had travelled in and out of the country "several" times during   
     the pandemic.   
      
     COVID-positive family allowed to fly into South Australia from South-East   
     Asia on private plane   
     ABC News, 30 Jun 2021 01:39Z   
     Health and govt authorities approved a COVID-positive family to fly in   
     from overseas to Australia last week on a privately-funded medevac flight,   
     despite ongoing calls to limit the number of overseas arrivals.   
      
   Heart inflammation after COVID-19 shots higher-than-expected in study of   
   US military   
   Yahoo News, 29 Jun 2021 19:32Z   
   Members of the US military who were vaccinated against COVID-19 showed   
   higher-than-expected rates of heart inflammation, although the condition was   
   still ...   
      
   Scientists say there's no life on Venus - but Jupiter has potential   
   CBS News, 29 Jun 2021 18:31Z   
      
   Russian fighters harassed Dutch frigate in Black Sea: defense ministry   
   Business Insider, 29 Jun 2021 17:29Z   
   Russian fighters harassed the Dutch frigate HNLMS Eversten in the Black Sea   
   for hours last week, the Dutch defense ministry said Tue. During the   
   incident ...   
      
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