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Darwin Bureau Chief for Sky News Matt Cunningham says it’s been “remarkable” the way frontline workers “have pulled their socks up and got on with the job”.

The Advertiser is reporting “frontline health professionals will be backed by a support army under a recruiting plan being launched today in the continuing battle against coronavirus”.

Mr Cunngingham said he took his “hat off to the frontline workers who were doing such a tremendous job and also to the people who are putting their hands up to go back into the workforce”. Sky News host Peter Gleeson said the policy was “really strong” and would do much to bolster the public health force. Image: Getty

 

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