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SYDNEY, March 29 — Australia today announced a nearly US$100 million (RM431.5 million) boost in funding to tackle domestic violence after support services reported a spike in coronavirus-related family abuse. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said there had been a 75 per cent surge in Google searches...

A man enters a pharmacy as people stay away due to restrictions to stop the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney March 27, 2020. — AFP pic

Women's Safety, a domestic violence charity in Australia's most populous New South Wales state, has reported that more than 40 percent of workers had seen an increase in client numbers, with over a third of cases directly linked to the virus outbreak. “We've also seen half a dozen examples in the past week where perpetrators have actually used Covid-19 as a form of abuse — telling their partner that they have the virus, therefore they can't leave the house.”

 

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