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One less active case in Victoria
Keeping with numbers for a moment ... Victoria’s Department of Health says there are now 21 active cases in the state, down from the 22 reported earlier.
It is not yet clear why one case has been removed from the tally, but we will aim to bring you an explanation shortly.
Queensland records no new cases on Sunday
By Stuart Layt
The numbers are also in for Queensland, and the Sunshine State has recorded no new cases of COVID-19, neither in the community nor in hotel quarantine.
It comes after Queensland Health confirmed late on Saturday that they had contacted all of the approximately 1500 people who were at terminal 4 at Melbourne Airport – a high-risk coronavirus exposure site – before travelling into the state.
They have all been told to get tested and quarantine in their homes for 14 days from when they were last in greater Melbourne.
Extra contact tracers were called in to help with contacting the cohort of people as soon as possible.
Queensland currently has seven active cases, all detected in hotel quarantine, with 6217 tests conducted in the 24 hours to Sunday.
Zero new local cases in NSW
By Pallavi Singhal
NSW has recorded its 28th consecutive day without a locally acquired COVID-19 case, the state’s longest period with zero community cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
“The previous longest stretch without local cases was 26 days, when there were no cases diagnosed in the reporting cycles between 8pm on November 6 and 8pm on December 2, 2020,” NSW Health reported on Sunday.
“While this milestone is pleasing, it does not mean we can drop our guard. Cases are present in other states and are regularly being detected among international travellers arriving from overseas.”
The milestone comes amidst new requirements that anyone who returned to NSW from Victoria after midnight on Friday, February 12, must comply with the five-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown in place in Victoria after more than a dozen cases were linked to the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel outbreak.
Victorian Health Minister, CHO to speak at midday
We know you like to keep on top of these things, so here is a heads up: Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton and COVID-response commander Jeroen Weimar will hold a press conference at midday (AEDT). Premier Daniel Andrews will not be joining them.
We will bring you their press conference live, so do stay with us.
Brunswick East dancers spreading the lockdown love this Valentine’s Day
Adorned in pink hearts and tassels, The Brunswick East Entertanment [sic] Festival dance troupe has been delighting residents on the north side of town this morning, performing for passersby along Nicholson Street.
Reader, Troy Bryant, sent in the photo below.
My colleague Nick Miller wrote about the talented housemates last year when they started putting on shows for lockdown-weary residents.
The Brunswick East ‘Entertanment’ Festival on Nicholson Street on Sunday morning.Credit:Troy Bryant
“We’ll be on the front lawn as long as there are restrictions,” dancer Kimberley Twiner said at the time.
This afternoon from 4pm to 5pm, the Front Street Boys will be making their comeback “especially for all the 90s hunnies and cuties out there”.
$50 night out: How Sydney’s new nightlife tsar plans to change the city
By Michael Koziol
Turning our attention to Sydney for a moment, where the city’s new nightlife tsar says the city’s after-dark economy must diversify beyond an “Anglo-Saxon drinking culture” and offer more affordable options so that people can enjoy a night out for $50 or less.
Michael Rodrigues, appointed as the state’s first 24-Hour Economy Commissioner last week, is tasked with rebuilding Sydney’s nightlife after the twin challenges of lockout laws and COVID-19. But the city’s issues of expense, accessibility and diversity cannot be fixed by legislation or vaccination.
Michael Rodrigues in Sydney’s Chinatown area.Credit:Edwina Pickles
Last week the NSW government announced it would remove the 1.30am lockout in Kings Cross, introduced in 2014 to curb alcohol-fuelled violence. The CBD lockout was removed last year.
Mr Rodrigues acknowledges the price of a night out is “something that we as a city and a state have to really think about”. He says a successful night-time precinct must offer options people can afford - a holistic night out for around $50.
“Two or three things for $50-$60; eat something, drink something, take in a show of some kind,” he says. This would allow people to hit the town more often rather than just for special occasions.
“Successful night-time economies must see repeat visitation,” he says.
Victoria’s new cases expected to be linked to Coburg function venue
By Sumeyya Ilanbey
Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley is expected to confirm at a press conference later today that the state’s two latest coronavirus cases are connected to a Sydney Road venue in Coburg, where a COVID-infected man attended a private function.
The Point Cook man in his 30s who attended the private function with extended family members on February 6 is a friend of a Holiday Inn worker who also has the virus.
The Sydney Road venue in Coburg that’s been listed as a COVID-19 exposure site has a ‘for lease’ sign and material across the windows, unoccupied.Credit:Ashleigh McMillan
The venue at 426 Sydney Road, Coburg, was listed as a high-risk exposure site late on Friday night.
Outside the Sydney Road venue in Coburg.Credit:Ashleigh McMillan
Melbourne’s empty Monash Freeway
Melbourne’s Monash Freeway is eerily empty this morning in scenes reminiscent of the city’s last stage four lockdown in 2020, when residents were confined to a five-kilometre radius of their homes.
The Monash Freeway on Sunday morning.
Hunt rejects Andrews’ call to slash number of returned travellers
Let’s take a closer look at political correspondent James Massola’s interview with federal Health Minister Greg Hunt ...
Mr Hunt has rejected calls from Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews for Australia to slash how many people return to Australia via hotel quarantine, arguing the state should resume its intake if the current lockdown ends in five days.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
In his interview with Massola, Mr Hunt pushed back at a suggestion from Mr Andrews that Australia should consider cutting its weekly intake from thousands to hundreds and backed the state’s hotel quarantine system and contact tracing to handle the pre-lockdown level of 1120 per week.
The minister stressed he did not wish to feud with any state over hotel quarantine and said the federal government had offered Victoria additional help with its “significantly improved” contact tracing system.
“We have to be able to get our people home and get critical medicines in so we have faith Victoria can continue to maintain and operate their system,” he said.
“We agree with what the Premier said earlier this week, that Victoria is capable of managing quarantine, testing and tracing.”
National cabinet agreed on February 5 to increase the international arrival cap with NSW taking 3010 per week, Queensland taking 1000, Western Australia taking 512, South Australia taking 530 and Victoria agreeing to raise its cap from 1120 to 1310 per week.
All international flights to Victoria have been cancelled for the foreseeable future.
Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day in lockdown?
As we mentioned earlier, Victorian florists set for one of the best weekends of the year are instead throwing away tens of millions of dollars worth of stock.
Florist Rahnee Moller, from Carlton North’s Art Stems on Lygon, was on Saturday sitting on thousands of dollars worth of perishable stock and unsure how much would have to be thrown away.
“[On Friday] people came in just to buy from us because they knew we had so much stock for Valentine’s Day,” Ms Moller told my colleague Zach Hope.
“They were saying ‘What do you need to get rid of the most. I’ll buy it. I don’t care’. It wasn’t even for Valentine’s Day, it was just because they knew we needed support. It was amazing.”
Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day today? Even if you recoil in horror at the thought of the day, will you somehow support a local business?
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