All eyes will be on Victoria's COVID-19 figures this weekend — if they stay low, Melbourne will be able to move along Premier Daniel Andrews's roadmap to the second step from Monday, allowing group gatherings and reopening childcare and schools.
Yesterday afternoon, Premier Daniel Andrews gave evidence to the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry and said he regarded Health Minister Jenny Mikakos as accountable for the program.
Follow today's events as they unfold.
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By Jacqueline Howard
Holding out for Single Figure Saturday
C'mon Melbourne, Single Figure Saturday!-Wellwisher
Good morning! Big weekend for us in Victoria. Can we start it off with single digit Saturday? 🤞 Bring on low numbers!!-Everything Crossed
I have all of my fingers and toes crossed for a Single (Figure) Saturday!-Camilla
Let's hope!
By Jacqueline Howard
Has Jenny Mikakos spoken since Daniel Andrews fronted the Inquiry?
Good morning - do we know what Jenny Mikakos statement said at the end of the hearing yesterday - it was submitted just after Dan had given his evidence?-Ed
By Jacqueline Howard
It can be tempting to think of COVID-19 patients as falling into one of two categories.
Category 1: young, otherwise healthy individuals who experience mild symptoms and recover at home.
Category 2: older people and people with pre-existing health conditions who become seriously ill and go to hospital.
While it's true that there is a spectrum of risk when it comes to severity of disease, it's become increasingly clear that not everyone fits neatly into one of these categories.
Both anecdotal reports and a growing body of research suggest persistent fatigue, breathlessness, "brain fog" and muscle aches, among other symptoms, are plaguing people some time after their infection has cleared.
Health reporter Olivia Willis explores what we know about the lingering health effects of coronavirus, and how concerned we should be.
By Jacqueline Howard
The anti-milo-on-the-menu movement
Milo is for home and camping, not cafes.-Never seen milo in a cafe
Good morning Jacqui, I hope you have a great day on the blog! Milo at a cafe? No. Milo is for night time, in your jimjams, snuggled under a blankie.-Deb
If a cafe is bringing in Milo, there needs to be some kind of scoop oversight. I like 2 heaped teaspoons, but my partner likes his with half the tin. If you're going to offer Milo to the masses, they'll need to be prepared to meet everyone's different needs.-Milo magic
It's unaustralian to water down a Milo, or not offer an additional 'dry scoop'. So an offer, may not have gone far enough as an acceptable Milo offering by a cafe-Otis
I agree with the general sentiment here - A Milo experience is as unique as a fingerprint.
Whether your preference be the evening song of crickets, jimjams and blankies, a carefully measured ratio, or an assortment of textures — it's all very personal.
So, yes, I suppose the question is whether cafes have the capacity to tailor the Milo to the customer.
By Jacqueline Howard
Victoria's political reporter Richard Willingham has kindly unpacked the latest developments in the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry for us. Here's a summary, and you can follow the link in the headline for the full deep-dive.
At his historic appearance before the Coate inquiry into the botched hotel quarantine program, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was concise and direct and, in the process, threw Health Minister Jenny Mikakos under the political bus.
The Premier's evidence distanced himself from key decisions and instead put them onto State Control Centre (SCC) command and senior bureaucrats.
After months of dodging questions about who was responsible for hotel quarantine, he singled out Mikakos, who a day earlier, had distanced herself from responsibility during her testimony.
Her future has been thrown into doubt by not only Andrews' declaration that she was responsible but also because she appeared to have misled the inquiry by claiming she only learnt of private security in May.
Like all those who appeared before him, Daniel Andrews does not know who made the ill-fated decision to use private security.
By Jacqueline Howard
Paulene Hutton used to cry late at night because she could not make ends meet.
The 53-year-old single mum of two in Brisbane was on the Newstart allowance of $40 a day, an amount welfare groups say keeps vulnerable Australians in poverty. Even with her casual shifts in retail, it was not enough to get by.
"If something went wrong I'd have to think... 'can I afford to get that fixed this fortnight, can I afford to get it next fortnight?' That money comes out of the food budget because there was no other leeway whatsoever," Ms Hutton said.
But suddenly, because of the pandemic, her world has opened up. Newstart was renamed JobSeeker and the payment was doubled, with the $550 coronavirus supplement, taking the payment to $1,100 a fortnight.
It allowed her to buy fresh food, new clothes and to pay off household appliances.
By Jason Om
By Jacqueline Howard
Catch up on all the events from yesterday
Quick summary:
By Jacqueline Howard
Happy Saturday
Good morning, all!
We'll start with the good news: Melbourne has been putting in a cracking effort to get those case numbers down, and the pay-off is imminent. Yesterday's rolling 14-day-average is below the threshold for moving into the second step on Monday, so we'll be keeping a keen eye out for today's numbers, hoping it maintains that downward trend.
We'll also be keeping across words from Victoria's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos, after Premier Daniel Andrews fronted the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry yesterday afternoon and pointed the blame for the bungle in her direction.
In the meantime, send through any questions or observations that have popped up this morning. Our newsroom discussion this morning: Is a cafe that doesn't offer Milo unAustralian?
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