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Year in Review – July – pt. 3

Peter Bannan

PETER BANNAN looks back at the events and issues from July in The Guardian‘s Year in Review series.

Friday, July 15

• Health authorities braced for a surge in the number of new COVID-19 infections as waste-water detections increased across the state. Swan Hill District Health acting chief executive Chloe Keogh said high levels of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants also had been detected in wastewater across the Loddon and Mallee regions.

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• Police across two states searched for a woman whose car was found crashed in Wycheproof. Colleen South was last seen at Renown Park, Adelaide, on July 1 driving a silver Hyundai Getz.

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Tuesday, July 19

• Hope was in sight that the local almond pollination season would kick off on time after the NSW Government announced a plan to allow beehives in the state to be moved.

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• The lead detective investigating the disappearance of Krystal Fraser believed he knew who killer her, as shocking new information surfaced at an inquest into her disappearance from Pyramid Hill in 2009.

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