Boom Radio: Lunchtime News Update
Prea Cunningham
Thursday 30 April 2020
1:00pm
Concerns for childcare centres after Covid-19 exposure
There are concerns for children exposed to COVID-19 at two Sydney Child care centres.
Further contact tracing is now ongoing in the buildings, increased building cleaning and further investigations are underway.
Streaming users jump amid Covid19 lockdown
Streaming service Spotify has reported a jump in user numbers since the start of the COVID-19 quarantine.
The public’s music listening routines are changing with people spending more time at home says the music streaming service, and it has gained a total of six million users since the start of the pandemic.
The Good News: Oldest mammal fossil found in Madagascar
A fossil of a badger-like creature named “The Crazy Beast of Gondwana” is said to have lived 66 millions years ago was discovered on the island of Madagascar.
It’s been dubbed Adalatherium hui, from the Malagasy word for “crazy” and the Greek word for “beast”
“Adalatherium is just one piece, but an important piece, in a very large puzzle on early mammalian evolution in the southern hemisphere,” vertebrate palaeontologist David Krause says.
The fossil is the oldest mammal fossil to be found in the southern hemisphere.
