Summary
- Melbourne's stage four lockdown has taken full effect this morning, with non-essential retail stores shut and permits required to travel to work and access childcare. There has been confusion for many people, with the list of permitted industries updated again this morning.
- Victoria is expected to record 471 new coronavirus cases today. The state recorded 725 new cases on Wednesday, the highest daily case total of the pandemic. It was also Australia's deadliest day of the pandemic, with 15 Victorians dying with the virus including a man in his 30s.
- NSW has recorded 12 new cases today, all from local sources. Two cases have been confirmed in NSW's Newcastle area, prompting the closure of a school and health alerts for several venues, including a Newcastle Jets game. A south-west Sydney buffet has also closed for cleaning. From Friday, NSW will require all people arriving from Victoria to spend 14 days in hotel quarantine.
- Queensland has declared its borders closed to all NSW and ACT residents from Saturday, as teams race to prepare new border passes. The state recorded no new cases today, but the source of a case recorded yesterday is still unknown.
- The CSIRO has opened Australia's first accredited surgical face mask testing facility in Melbourne today. Previously, medical-grade masks had to be sent overseas to be accredited.
Victoria expected to record 471 new coronavirus cases, Premier update at 12pm
A source with knowledge of health statistics said Victoria is set to record 471 new coronavirus cases overnight.
If confirmed, the tally is significantly fewer than on Wednesday, when the state recorded its worst day of the pandemic, with 725 new cases and 15 fatalities in the previous 24 hours.
Today's number is not officially confirmed. We will bring you the confirmed figures as soon as they are available.
Premier Daniel Andrews will address the media at 12pm.
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WATCH: Prime Minister addresses the media
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton are due to unveil the 2020 Cyber Security Strategy. We are bringing this to you live as we expect Mr Morrison may also make some comments about the pandemic, particularly in light of the case numbers in Victoria yesterday.
WA to argue for Palmer border challenge retrial after Commonwealth withdrawal
By Heather McNeill
Mining magnate Clive Palmer’s legal challenge to WA’s hard border should be subject to a retrial following the Commonwealth withdrawing its involvement, the WA government says.
An urgent application, to be heard during a case management hearing in the Federal Court on Friday, will consider whether to vacate July's four-day trial in favour of a new trial before a new judge.
Clive Palmer – who has a mining company based in WA – says the border is "destroying the economy".Credit:Nine
Two days after the initial hearing, the Commonwealth withdrew its support of Mr Palmer’s position that WA’s ‘all-or-nothing’ approach to the border closure was unconstitutional.
A spokesman for Premier Mark McGowan said the Premier had requested the Federal Government back WA’s application for a retrial.
People eating McDonald's on the footpath among Melbourne's curfew fines
By Simone Fox Koob
Several people sitting on the footpath eating McDonald's after curfew were among 176 fined by police on Wednesday, the most fines issued in a 24 hour period since Victoria's second lockdown began.
A man out walking in Bayswater North who was not wearing a face covering or mask and didn't have one with him was fined. He was also more than five kilometres from home.
Three men and a woman breaching curfew while sitting on a footpath eating McDonald's, a man buying snacks at 2.30am at a convenience store and numerous people who were out in the community after midnight were also issued $1652 infringements.
Of the 176 fines issued, 51 were issued to people failing to wear a face mask for one of the approved reasons, seven were at vehicle checkpoints and 55 were for breaches of curfew.
Police also charged a Geelong woman with assaulting police after she was questioned by two officers for not wearing a face covering or mask on Monday.
Police say the officers approached the 25-year-old near Yarra Street in Geelong about 3.30pm and made multiple attempts to confirm her identity. "The woman allegedly refused to provide her details," a spokeswoman said.
"When the officers then attempted to arrest her, it’s alleged she became aggressive and assaulted them."
A first constable and sergeant received minor injuries to their arms and hands.
The woman has been charged with assaulting police, resisting police, failing to provide an address and was fined $200 for breaching the directions of the Chief Health Officer.
She was bailed to appear before Geelong Magistrates’ Court on August 10.
NSW records 12 new cases
By Kate Aubusson
NSW Health reported 12 new cases on Thursday morning - all were locally acquired. We will bring you more information about their locations when it becomes available.
A total of 104 people are being treated for COVID-19 in hospital, including 10 in ICU.
More than 28,000 people were tested in the 24 hours to 8pm on Wednesday night.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian congratulated those who had come forward for testing, but urged young people especially to limit the number of places they visited.
“If you have the virus and you go out five times a week to different places you could potentially be spreading it to five different locations, and then we have to contract trace everybody,” she told Triple M this morning.
"It's not anybody's fault but it's just the nature of the virus. It's so contagious that if you don't know you have it and you are still socialising you have the potential to give it to so many people."
Victoria expected to record 471 new coronavirus cases, Premier update at 12pm
A source with knowledge of health statistics said Victoria is set to record 471 new coronavirus cases overnight.
If confirmed, the tally is significantly fewer than on Wednesday, when the state recorded its worst day of the pandemic, with 725 new cases and 15 fatalities in the previous 24 hours.
Today's number is not officially confirmed. We will bring you the confirmed figures as soon as they are available.
Premier Daniel Andrews will address the media at 12pm.
ACT Chief Minister gives a coronavirus update
At the same time as Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is addressing the media, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr is also due to give a coronavirus update. You can watch his press conference below.
WATCH: Queensland Premier addresses the media
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is due to address the media at 11am.
'Hugely concerning' NSW worried about mask supply: Labor
NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay has said it is "hugely concerning" that one of the reasons Health Minister Brad Hazzard cited for not making masks compulsory in the state on 2GB earlier this morning was the possibility of demand exceeding supply.
"What about if we do end up in a situation like Victoria?" Jodi McKay asked reporters on Thursday. "We simply don't have a number of the number of masks that are required."
Ms McKay said Mr Hazzard's direction that people should "definitely wear" masks on public transport contradicted the current NSW Health advice that it is only strongly recommended.
"He's the health minister," she said. "He has complete control of the health orders: he can make a health order at any time, but he hasn't. So his advice is, you definitely wear it, but he hasn't actually made a health order."
Ms McKay accused the government of not being confident enough in the state's stockpile of masks to mandate wearing them.
The Labor opposition have called on the government to release the health advice on which they act to the public, as well as make mask wearing compulsory in places it is currently only recommended: on public transport, at the supermarket and in place of worship.
‘Not the time’: Queensland police looking to bar planned bridge protest
By Matt Dennien
Refugee advocates planning to block Brisbane’s Story Bridge at the weekend have been warned by police that the action will not be tolerated.
More than 3000 people have already indicated they are interested in attending the “mass sit-in” on Saturday calling for the release of about 120 asylum seekers held in a CBD hotel, who were brought to Australia from offshore detention to receive medical treatment.
“From a purely public health point of view that is not supported,” Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski told reporters on Thursday.
“This is not the time, and that is not the way.”
He warned that though police were looking at “every legal action we’ve got” to stop the event from happening, such action had failed to stop people turning up to events in other states and protesters would face arrest if they attempted to block traffic.
St Basil's deaths to be investigated by police, coroner
By Erin Pearson and Cameron Houston
A cluster of deaths among residents at St Basil's aged care at Fawkner is being investigated by Victorian police and the state coroner after COVID-19 began spreading into the high risk facility last month.
Sources have told The Age a police taskforce will be formed to lead the coronial investigation which is expected to include members of the homicide squad and detectives from the crime department.
“Victoria Police can confirm it is assisting the Victorian State Coroner with enquiries in relation to the death of persons associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and aged care facilities," a police spokeswoman said.
"As the matter falls within the jurisdiction of the Coroners Court of Victoria, it would be inappropriate to comment any further."
The Coroner's Court of Victoria has been contacted for comment.
As of yesterday, 159 coronavirus cases have been linked to St Basil's, the highest number linked to any aged care facility in the country.
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