WATCH LIVE: Victoria coronavirus update
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is addressing the media with Health Minister Jenny Mikakos about Melbourne's coronavirus hotspots and a new testing blitz.
You can watch their press conference live, below:
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Victoria embarks on suburban testing blitz
By Melissa Cunningham
Victoria's suburban testing blitz will target 10 suburbs: Keilor Downs, Broadmeadows, Maidstone, Albanvale, Sunshine West, Hallam, Brunswick West, Fawkner, Reservoir and Pakenham.
More than 800 health workers will hit the streets in a fleet of mobile testing vans and go door-to-door to test residents in those suburbs, regardless of whether they have symptoms.
Describing it as an "unprecedented testing blitz", Mr Andrews said the purpose was to find all positive COVID-19 cases in those suburbs.
"We do anticipate we will find more positive cases," Mr Andrews said. "We plan on doing more than 100,000 tests."
He said the Australian Defence Force will work with the state government to transfer the tests to pathology labs.
"This is a massive boost to testing capacity, it is unprecedented," Mr Andrews said.
Melbourne's suburb hotspots revealed; 33 new cases
By Melissa Cunningham and Craig Butt
Victoria has recorded another 33 cases of COVID-19 overnight, marking the state's ninth consecutive day of double-digit rises.
It is the biggest increase in new coronavirus cases in Victoria in more than two months.
Premier Daniel Andrews has revealed a suburb-by-suburb breakdown of Melbourne's coronavirus hotspots and says residents in Keilor Downs, Broadmeadows, Maidstone, Albanvale, Sunshine West, Hallam, Brunswick West, Fawkner, Reservoir and Pakenham will receive free testing, with or without symptoms.
The Victorian government wants to carry out 10,000 tests a day across those areas, with a particular focus on Keilor Downs and Broadmeadows, where large numbers of infections have been detected.
Australia's coronavirus death toll stands at 104
Sadly, Australia's coronavirus death toll has climbed for the second day. But this time, the national toll has been adjusted to include an 85-year-old nursing home resident who died on April 27.
NSW Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant, revealed this morning that the resident's death at an aged care facility in Bankstown had been reclassified as a COVID-19 death.
COVID-19 outbreaks: What are you doing differently now?
It has been just over a week since coronavirus case numbers started to surge in Melbourne, putting the country on alert of a second wave.
Here's a question for our Melbourne readers, as well as those elsewhere in the country: Has it changed your behaviour?
WATCH LIVE: Victoria coronavirus update
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is addressing the media with Health Minister Jenny Mikakos about Melbourne's coronavirus hotspots and a new testing blitz.
You can watch their press conference live, below:
Student's diagnosis confirms 'active virus transmission' in NSW
By Lisa Visentin
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says authorities remain concerned there is active transmission of the virus in the state.
"This is not a time for NSW residents to be complacent or cocky," said Mr Hazzard, who is currently addressing the media alongside the state's chief health officer.
"We need the community in Sydney particularly, but also in NSW, to realise that this virus is still amongst us."
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard.Credit:Wolter Peeters
NSW Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant, said the diagnosis of a year 2 student at Lane Cove West Public School is evidence the virus is still active.
"It does highlight that we have got evidence of COVID-19 transmissions, albeit at very low levels," she said.
Dr Chant also revealed that the death of an 85-year-old resident at an aged care facility in Bankstown on April 27 has now been reclassified as a COVID-19 death.
Mr Hazzard repeated the government's advice that NSW residents should avoid travelling to Victoria.
"My message to NSW residents is, don’t visit Victoria, particularly don’t visit Melbourne hotspots," he said.
He also urged Victorians not to travel to regional NSW or Sydney.
Victoria's hotel quarantine system 'could be improved': Hunt
By Paul Sakkal
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says Victoria should not be blamed for the recent COVID-19 outbreak, but its hotel quarantine system "could be improved" and was deficient compared to other states.
"The last thing we want to be is judgmental … all the states and territories have done a wonderful job," he said.
A security guard and a young traveller outside Melbourne's Crown Promenade Hotel in March.Credit:AAP
Mr Hunt spoke in Melbourne a short time ago about federal funding for research projects.
About 1000 members of the Australian Defence Force will begin arriving in Victoria today to improve the state’s hotel quarantine system and boost its expanded testing regime.
Between 800 and 850 soldiers will work at hotels housing returned overseas travellers, while the rest will help at testing sites.
"This is Australia at its best," Mr Hunt said.
He said it was not the first time the military had been deployed to help states with their pandemic responses and it would likely not be the last.
Mr Hunt said deploying the military would minimise the risk of Victoria's outbreak becoming uncontrollable. He urged anyone in Victoria with mild symptoms to be tested and asked people to stay home if they feel sick.
He said about 48,000 tests had been conducted across the country over the past 24 hours, including about 20,000 in Victoria.
WATCH: NSW coronavirus update as state records four new cases
By Lisa Visentin
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says there have been four new COVID-19 cases in the state since 8pm yesterday, three of whom were returned travellers.
Mr Hazzard also confirmed one case was a seven-year-old child from Lane Cove West Public School, which was first reported by media outlets on Wednesday.
You can watch Mr Hazzard's press conference with NSW Health Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant, below:
WATCH LIVE: Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the media
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is due to speak to the media shortly alongside Communications Minister Paul Fletcher at Sydney's West HQ, formerly known as the Rooty Hill RSL.
You can watch their press conference live, below.
Should Melbourne hotspots be placed in lockdown?
As we wait to hear from Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews this morning with the latest on Melbourne's COVID-19 outbreaks, we're asking: Do you think the government should be placing hotspots in lockdown?
Under Victoria's stage three restrictions, residents were only allowed outside their homes for four reasons: food and essential supplies, exercise, medical treatment, and work or education. Some people say that the council areas identified as hotspots should be placed under those restrictions again.
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