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Australia's Victoria state logs record infections ahead of key sporting event

MELBOURNE, Sept 25, (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state notched up a daily record of 847 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and one death, government figures showed on Saturday as health officials warned the public to stay home ahead of a major national sporting final.

Authorities expect case numbers in the state to keep rising until mid November as it races to raise vaccination rates above the 70% double dose threshold, up from around 46% currently.

With the Australian rules football grand final, a major national sporting event, due to take place on Saturday evening, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton warned fans to stay home to avoid putting “you, your friends and your households at risk.”

Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil organiser votes to disband group

HONG KONG, Sept 25,(AFP) - The Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organised three decades of annual vigils commemorating the victims of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown voted to disband on Saturday in the face of China’s sweeping clampdown on dissent.

“This is a very painful dissolution,” Tsang Kinshing, a member of the Hong Kong Alliance, said after the vote.

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