6 Aug 2020

Top Stories for Thursday 6 August 2020

From Morning Report, 6:00 am on 6 August 2020

Search and rescue teams continue to try find survivors of yesterdays massive explosion in Beirut. Business leaders are working to convince the government to allow privately run managed isolation hotels. An inexperienced doctor and inadequate supervision meant a critically ill toddler did not get potentially life saving treatment. Doctors are pleading with the Ministry of Health to ditch a "substandard" cervical screening test, saying its costing lives.