About 300 staff at Cedar Meats, the western Melbourne meatworks at the centre of Victoria's biggest COVID-19, returned to the abattoir for work this morning, as photographer Jason South captured below.
The Cedar Meats cluster has spread to 111 people, made up of 67 staff and 44 contacts. The last new cases linked to the outbreak were last Friday May 22.
Staff return to Cedar Meats in Brooklyn after it was shut down to a COVID-19 outbreak.Credit:Jason South
Staff at Cedar Meats on Thursday morning.Credit:Jason South
You're in lockdown at home when your boss calls and asks you to come and live at work. What do you do?
Take a look at this Bogota textile factory that has taken an innovative approach at welcoming workers back while reducing risk of exposure, by building small studio apartments within the workshop.
The US death toll has passed 100,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
There have been 100,047 deaths from the virus in the country, the tally showed before 8am, AEST. Nearly 1.7 million Americans have been infected.
Over the weekend, the New York Times commemorated the then impending milestone early by publishing 1000 obituaries of the country's coronavirus victims.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles says health authorities are still working to confirm how the state’s latest COVID-19 related death contracted the virus despite not leaving the small Central Queensland town he lived in since February.
A specialist team has been dispatched to the town, with new fever clinics to begin extensive testing of residents this morning. However, Mr Miles says much is still unclear:
“We don’t know a lot more than yesterday," he tells ABC radio. “Our immediate focus is testing as many people as we can because that’s what will allow us to find out if the virus is circulating on the ground there or whether he has acquired it some other way.”
Nathan Turner, 30, is the seventh Queenslander to die with COVID-19. However, his exact cause of death is not confirmed.Credit:Facebook
Nathan Turner, 30, was found unresponsive by his partner in the Blackwater home they shared on Tuesday afternoon, with paramedics confirming he had passed away and his diagnosis later discovered in a post-mortem test.
Mr Miles says the results of a second test on his partner, who works at a shop in the town and displayed symptoms but returned a negative result, will be known later today.
Reserve Bank boss Philip Lowe will shed light on Australia's economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic when he faces the Senate inquiry into the government's coronavirus response later today.
RBA governor Philip Lowe has said that moving forward, Australia should not handle the economy in the same way as before the pandemic.Credit:AAP
Dr Lowe, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chair Wayne Byres and Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton will appear via videoconference before the COVID-19 committee hearing.
"Labor is looking forward to the opportunity to hear from the RBA governor about his views on the economic response to COVID-19 and the best path forward for recovery," Labor senator and inquiry chair Katy Gallagher told AAP.
"Australia entered this crisis from a position of weakness, not strength.
"With monetary policy now all-but exhausted, Governor Lowe's views about where Australia goes from here will be important evidence for this committee and vital to Australians who are relying on this government to get the recovery right."
We will be bringing you live updates from the inquiry throughout the day.
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday called his Republican rival Donald Trump an "absolute fool" for not wearing a mask at a series of recent public events, saying his lack of leadership on the issue is "costing people's lives".
The United States is on the brink of recording 100,000 official deaths, even as the nation begins to open up again.
With sport scarce across the world, tonight's NRL restart match between the Eels and the Broncos will be screened in 70 countries.
The game, which is being played at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, is the first since the league shut down play in late March due to coronavirus restrictions.
The NRL will follow the lead of the German Bundesliga soccer league and use cardboard cut-outs of fans at games.Credit:AP
There will be no crowds present, although fans will be able to order $22 cardboard cut-outs of themselves to be set up permanently in crowd-less stadiums as the code pulls out all the stops to generate an atmosphere without putting spectators' health at risk.
In terms of the health risk to players, some promising research has come out of World Rugby's medical group.
The organisation's chief medical officer has said rugby players could be less at risk of transmitting COVID-19 than basketballers and other athletes in semi-contact sports if measures such as banning scrum resets are implemented by national unions with high rates of the disease, following an analysis of contact in 60 matches.
A staff member at a Melbourne hotel hosting quarantined travellers was among Victoria's eight new coronavirus cases yesterday.
The health department revealed on Wednesday a Rydges on Swanston employee had become infected, prompting the hotel to be shut to the public. The hotel is being used by a small number of returned overseas travellers in mandatory quarantine.
Two of Victoria's latest COVID-19 cases were diagnosed at Lynden Aged Care home in Camberwell, bringing the total cases linked to the facility to three. Staff and residents at the nursing home are undergoing more testing for COVID-19.
The remaining cases included one returned traveller in hotel quarantine and four people picked up during routine testing.
Victoria has 183 cases with an unknown source of infection while eight people are in hospital, with four in intensive care. We can expect to get an update from the government on Victoria's numbers later this morning.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the civil service is too busy dealing with the coronavirus pandemic to investigate whether his chief adviser should be punished for breaching Britain's lockdown laws, Europe correspondent Bevan Shields writes.
Urging the country to "move on", Johnson told MPs he "totally understands the public indignation" over the scandal but insisted top aide Dominic Cummings would not be sacked or face an independent investigation by the Cabinet Office.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to a parliamentary committee by videolink.Credit:
"I am not certain right now an inquiry into that matter is a very good use of official time," Johnson said during a virtual interrogation by a special parliamentary committee.
Cummings has refused to apologise for going to his parents' farm in Durham in late March even though his wife Mary Wakefield had coronavirus symptoms and he fell ill with the disease the next day.
His actions also included a 100-kilometre round trip family drive with his four-year-old son to a sightseeing spot - Barnard Castle - on the day of his wife's birthday. The architect of the Vote Leave campaign claimed the drive was to test his eyesight ahead of the journey back to London.
State political editor Noel Towell writes that the state opposition's new attack line, that Andrews’ attachment to his strange Belt and Road deal with the Communist nation is "arrogant", just might stick. He writes:
"It’s easy to sling criticisms at the federal government over its handling of the increasingly fraught relationship between Australia and China, which is what Pallas did, under no particular pressure, earlier this month.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews with Treasurer Tim Pallas.Credit:Josh Robenstone
"But the Treasurer’s accusation, backed up later by Andrews, that China had been "vilified" in the debate over the COVID-19 inquiry brought national attention onto the state’s Belt and Road deal. And a lot of people – from both sides of politics – didn’t like what they saw. Especially against the background of tensions heightened by the pandemic."
Victoria is thought by China watchers to be the only non-national government, the only state or province, among 138 jurisdictions around the globe who have got involved in Belt and Road.
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