Today is February 16, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, almost one in 10 Canberrans would be impacted when the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme and Jobseeker supplement were wound up at the end of March, prompting fears of business closures and a spike in poverty in the nation's capital, and defence and foreign affairs employees being posted overseas will be among the first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine while other public service employees will maintain their position in accordance with the national rollout.

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