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Covid force to go door to door in Perth this weekend conducting voluntary tests About 875 people expected be tested for virus over the next two weekends Belmont, Bassendean, Claremont and Melville will be targeted by testing blitz WA is just days away from reaching its peak in Omicron cases, premier warns The state recorded 7,151 new cases and one Covid-related death on Thursday A Covid detection force will go door to door in Perth this weekend and conduct random testing amid fears Omicron is lurking undetected in the community. About 875 people are expected be tested over the next...

The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest group affected. The new forensic DNA sampling was authorized by Congress in a little-noticed amendment to a January 2006 renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, which provides protections and assistance for victims of sexual crimes. The amendment permits DNA collecting from anyone under criminal arrest by federal authorities, and also from illegal immigrants detained by federal agents. Over the...

Dragnet for DNA assailed Louisiana man, ACLU oppose sampling; serial killer hunt defended 01/07/2003 Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. - Nearly 1,000 men have opened their mouths so police investigators could swab saliva and take cheek scrapings in search of DNA that matches that left behind by a serial killer. But some of the men have raised concerns that the DNA dragnet is too invasive and puts them in the position of having to submit to the "voluntary" testing or be branded as someone who could have killed four women. "They could have eliminated me as a suspect in...