Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Coronavirus cases and hospitalisations have surged across New South Wales and Victoria today as concern grows over spreading infections among students and children. Free tickets to Australian cricket great Shane Warne’s state funeral at the Melbourne Cricket Ground will be made available from 3pm today. And a Chinese airliner with 132 people on board has crashed in the southern province of Guangxi, officials say.
– COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations surge across NSW and Victoria
– How to get a ticket to Shane Warne’s state memorial service
– Chinese airliner with 132 aboard crashes, officials confirm
– Staggering Russian death toll from Ukraine invasion accidentally revealed
– In Pictures: Shopping centre shattered in Russian bombing
