Summary
- Victoria recorded 270 new coronavirus cases yesterday, its third-highest daily total. The state's Chief Health Officer has warned the state's ongoing surge of coronavirus cases will result in at least 200 people requiring hospital care within the next fortnight.
- The number of cases associated with Sydney's Crossroads Hotel has grown to 30, and the cluster is now genomically linked to the Melbourne outbreak. Today, a Woolworths at Bowral and a pizza store in Belfield have been forced to close following positive cases, but Premier Gladys Berejiklian has ruled out a city-wide lockdown.
- More than 14,000 doctors and other healthcare workers have signed up to relieve overstretched Victorian hospitals battling coronavirus outbreaks that have led to severe staffing shortages.
- Queensland has upped its border operation after banning residents of 77 Sydney suburbs from entering the Sunshine State, in addition to its existing ban on Victorians. A total of 35 people were turned around yesterday.
- There have been more than 13 million cases of coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic and more than 575,000 people have died. Three US states have broken their single-day records for coronavirus deaths. Australia passed the 10,000-case mark yesterday.
Watch live: Coronavirus updates for Victoria and New South Wales
You have a choice of two 11am press conferences today.
You can watch Victoria's coronavirus update with Premier Daniel Andrews and Police Minister Lisa Neville:
Or you can watch the New South Wales coronavirus update with the state's Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant and Minister for Health Brad Hazzard:
Depending on your settings, the two videos might both play at once. It's an idea to click 'don't play' or pause and mute the one that you don't want to watch, unless you're confident you can multi-task and view both simultaneously.
Latest updates
Victoria records 238 new coronavirus cases, woman in her 90s dies from COVID-19
By Paul Sakkal
An additional 238 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Victoria over the past 24 hours and another person has died.
Of those 209 are under investigation and the remaining 29 are linked to known outbreaks.
A woman in her 90s has died from the virus, taking the state’s death toll to 27.
“We send our best wishes, thoughts and prayers to her family,” Premier Daniel Andrews said.
There are 105 people in hospital, 20 more than yesterday, and 27 in intensive care, one more than yesterday.
About 27,000 tests were conducted on Tuesday.
There are currently 1931 active cases in Victoria.
NSW records 13 new cases
By Kate Aubusson
In the 24 hours to 8pm last night NSW recorded 13 new cases, Health Minister Brad Hazzard has told reporters this morning.
Three were returned travellers and 10 were linked to the Crossroads cluster.
Of those 10 cases:
- Six attended the venue
- Two were close contacts of people who attended
- Two already reported cases acquired their infection at Planet Fitness (where an infectious Crossroads employee attended)
In Sydney’s south-west alone, 3297 people came forward for testing in that 24-hour period.
"We have had massive pressure in the pop-up clinics,” Mr Hazzard said, reminding people they can also go to their local hospitals for testing.
There are clinics at Liverpool Hospital, Campbelltown Hospital, Victoria Park in Picton, Camden Hospital, Narellan Community Health Centre, Bankstown Hospital, Fairfield Hospital and Bowral Hospital.
Watch live: Queensland border restrictions update
An update on Queensland's border restrictions is about to start. You can watch it live below:
Watch live: Coronavirus updates for Victoria and New South Wales
You have a choice of two 11am press conferences today.
You can watch Victoria's coronavirus update with Premier Daniel Andrews and Police Minister Lisa Neville:
Or you can watch the New South Wales coronavirus update with the state's Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant and Minister for Health Brad Hazzard:
Depending on your settings, the two videos might both play at once. It's an idea to click 'don't play' or pause and mute the one that you don't want to watch, unless you're confident you can multi-task and view both simultaneously.
AFL has approached Queensland government to move more teams to the state
By Toby Crockford
The AFL is negotiating with the Queensland government to move "hundreds" of players and coaches to the state for two months to keep the season alive, according to the state's Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has spoken to Ms Palaszczuk about accommodation for interstate teams to temporarily base themselves in the Sunshine State.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.Credit:Matt Dennien
"In breaking news I can reveal the AFL has approached Queensland to move more of its teams and players to Queensland," Ms Palaszczuk told state parliament.
"He is looking to book accommodation for hundreds of players and officials at Queensland hotels for two months. You can imagine what that means to those businesses.
"I stress none of these measures can happen without strict quarantine protocols and the COVID management plan that has allowed the AFL season to proceed.
"As everyone knows, AFL’s more than a sport to Victorians. We know how they feel.
"Given the choice between not having a season and having it based in Queensland I think I know what the fans would like to happen."
Victoria's coronavirus update will be at 11am
Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews and Police Minister Lisa Neville will be giving the state's daily coronavirus update at 11am today. We will post the video feed in the blog shortly.
At that same time, there will be a New South Wales coronavirus update as well, with the state's Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant and Health Minister Brad Hazzard. We will include a video feed in the blog for this press conference as well.
Second Centrelink call centre worker in Melbourne's north tests positive for COVID-19
A second worker at the Centrelink call centre in Mill Park, north of Melbourne, has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
The employee at the facility run by British public services provider Serco last worked on July 9. The office was closed on Tuesday night for deep cleaning and has reopened today.
A worker who last worked at the call centre on July 6 also tested positive. It is not clear if the cases are linked. June Meldrum, a Serco manager, said the worker infected on July 6 likely contracted the virus outside the workplace that has 500 staff.
Contact tracing is underway to determine if the workers had close contacts at the call centre.
“Again, please do not attend work if you have any symptoms at all, including a headache, cough, runny nose or any cold-like symptoms,” Ms Medlrum said in an email to staff.
Yet another venue announces virus connection in south-west Sydney
By Mary Ward
Another venue in Sydney's Macarthur region has been told by NSW Health that a patron who attended its premises tested positive for COVID-19.
Wests League Club at Leumeah, near Campbelltown, was advised by NSW Health on Tuesday night that a person who visited their venue on two occasions last week has received a positive test.
The person visited the club at 8pm on Friday as well as between midnight and 2.30 on Sunday morning, the venue said in a Facebook post today.
It is not known if they are the same person who departed the nearby Macarthur Tavern at midnight on Sunday morning, causing the closure of that venue overnight.
Wests League Club was closed at 11.30pm last night for a deep clean and will reopen at midday today.
"By the time that we re-open, there will have been over 100+ man hours of cleaning and sanitising from additional staff and contractors to ensure that our Club is cleaner than it has ever been," the venue said on Facebook.
Some hospitals at capacity because of coronavirus: AMA president
By Dana McCauley
Australian Medical Association President Tony Bartone has said some hospitals are already "at capacity" and struggling to roster enough healthcare workers as the number of staff sent home due to outbreaks continues to climb.
"What we are finding is that hospital doctors and nurses are under the pump, in terms of being able to man rosters because of infections or, indeed, having to isolate because of contacts with people who’ve become infected," Dr Bartone told Channel 7's Sunrise on Wednesday morning.
"That's where we're needing to actually boost or surge that workforce capacity, at the moment, to fill the gaps for people who, because of infection or needing to be in isolation, are not available for shifts."
Australian Medical Association president Tony Bartone.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Dr Bartone said there was no shortage of equipment or beds to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, but that "strategic workforce planning" was crucial.
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald revealed on Wednesday that more than 14,000 healthcare workers, including about 4000 nurses and 1260 doctors, are on the Victorian government's surge workforce database.
On Tuesday, the number of healthcare workers with active COVID-19 infections was 114, with outbreaks spread across a dozen hospitals and 35 aged care services.
Victoria's health department has refused to confirm the number of workers who have been furloughed to self-isolate for 14 days, but multiple sources suggest it is more than 1000, with individual hospitals forced to send hundreds of staff home.
"In terms of equipment and in terms of number of beds, we're coping and indeed, the plans are there to ramp it up," Dr Bartone said.
"That's where all the Chief Medical Officers of all the States and Territories and AHPPC have been working together, from the beginning, in terms of planning for an eventuality of the proportions we're seeing now."
Victoria recorded 270 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of active cases to 1803, with 85 people in hospital and 26 in intensive care, including 21 on ventilators.
The state has 660 ICU beds, with about 1000 ventilators ready to be set up and plans to build hundreds more physical bed spaces, with thousands more ventilators on order.
The federal government also has about 7500 ventilators in the national medical stockpile.
Of the existing 660 beds, 446 were staffed on Friday, with fewer than 60 lying empty as about 370 were being used to treat patients admitted for reasons other than COVID-19, such as car accidents, heart attacks, strokes and recovery from surgery.
While the Victorian government announced funding for 4000 extra ICU beds in April, it remains unclear when this number will be delivered.
Dr Bartone said 4000 was "an extraordinary number of ICU beds" and that if the state reached a point where it needed that many, it would have "tens of thousands of people in hospital and ... an even a much more extraordinary number of cases being reported."
He said the state was "well off any need for that quantum ... at the moment."
Where are active coronavirus cases in Victoria?
This map shows the location of active coronavirus cases recorded in Victoria:
Keep in mind this is the data as of yesterday. We do not yet know today's daily increase for Victoria, and the detailed local government area-level breakdowns tend to be published later in the afternoon. As the state records more cases, this detailed data is often being put out later and later in the afternoon.
Quite a few readers have contacted me today asking why the numbers displayed here differ from those on the Victorian health department's own dashboard.
The data I use also comes from the health department, but is based on a daily update they send out as is the go-to source for these numbers. I suspect their dashboard is updated at a different time of day so sometimes there is a lag between the two sources.
You can see a detailed breakdown of active case numbers by local government area over time in this article: Ten graphs that show Victoria's coronavirus trends
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