COVID patients will no longer be kept in segregated wards and surgical staff will wear full protective gear permanently as at least three major hospitals move onto a “war footing” similar to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Police are investigating whether a rival crime syndicate used the war ­between the Hamzy and Alameddine crime clans as a cover to murder gangster Ghassan Amoun.

Leaked documents have revealed Tennis Australia wrongly — and knowingly — told the world’s best tennis players, including Novak Djokovic, how they could play in the first grand slam of the year, even if they were unvaccinated.

Meantime - detained world number one DJOKOVIC has reportedly asked for his personal chef to cook for him in his quarantine hotel.

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