It can be easy to forget the COVID-19 pandemic as you walk the streets of Manuka. But for Lisa Calabria and her team at Capital Travel, the pandemic and its devastating effects were still a grim reality.
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Times Past
The COVID epidemic ruled the year of 2020. But in 1967 there was an epidemic of another kind in Canberra, reported The Canberra Times. Cats and their proverbial nine lives were fighting a losing battle against a feline epidemic that had clawed Canberra and claimed many lives in the past few weeks. A Lyneham veterinary surgeon said about 600 cats had died in a fortnight, but that this was a conservative figure because of many unknown and unreported cases. READ MORE
