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Watch: NSW and Victorian governments give COVID-19 updates
The NSW and Victorian governments both gave COVID-19 updates at 11am AEST.
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‘Don’t come to Victoria from hotspots’: Foley
By Roy Ward
Victorian health minister Martin Foley has warned people from New South Wales’ hotspots to stay out of his state or face a $5000 fine.
Mr Foley said Victoria Police were patrolling areas and using mobile and automated technology to scan licence plates of people entering the state from NSW.
“We also know that this is a very important time to protect Victoria’s border with New South Wales, and we will continue to strengthen that border up based on public health advice,” Mr Foley said.
“The message is simple. Don’t come from a New South Wales red zone to Victoria, and for Victorians, do not visit those red zones in New South Wales.
“Victoria Police has continued to ramp up its Operation Signal on our borders with New South Wales, with highly visible, mobile, and increased numbers of Victoria Police operating 24/7.”
Around 260 police officers are making roving patrols or working at pop-up checkpoints.
“If you enter Victoria through the land borders from those red zones, you run the risk of substantial fines and being turned around, if not worse. As fines can be $5,000, on the spot.”
Mr Foley said 19 flights arrived from Sydney on Friday with all 13,135 passengers, up to the 3pm reporting deadline, were screened with the majority returning residents.
But 15 people were sent back to their home states for not having the right travel permits.
Just twelve of the 29 new cases were in isolation: chief health officer
By Georgina Mitchell
Only twelve of the 29 new cases of COVID-19 in NSW to 8pm on Friday were in isolation during their infectious period, NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant has said.
Dr Chant told a briefing in Sydney this morning that “each of those cases not in isolation will generate exposure venues”.
She said a number of staff at Great Ocean Foods in Marrickville were among those infected. The business is mainly a retail wholesaler, but about five people attend each day to buy their food directly.
“Our concern is for those individuals,” Dr Chant said. “We have QR-coded a small number of people but we believe there are probably people who did not check in using the QR code that was available at that premise.”
Dr Chant said delivery drivers at Great Ocean Foods also became infectious.
“Anyone who received a delivery from Great Ocean Foods from Monday the 21st to Friday the 25th of June, that person plus their household members must immediately isolate and get tested,” Dr Chant said.
“We know if you were exposed on the 21st, on Monday, you might have been able to transmit it to your household during that time, and so we want to lock down and prevent any further spread.”
Dr Chant said household contacts at other venues, including Rebel Bankstown North Terrace on June 24 and Cheers Bar & Grill at 561 George Street in Sydney on June 20, must also isolate for the same reason.
NSW minister feels like he’s been ‘hit by a bus’ after testing positive to COVID
By Lucy Cormack
NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall says he feels like he has been “hit by a bus” after testing positive to COVID-19 earlier this week.
Mr Marshall on Saturday morning recorded a video diary from his bed in isolation, describing his first days of symptoms.
NSW MP Adam Marshall says he feels like he has been hit by a bus after contracting COVID-19 last week.
“It feels like being hit by a bus. You sort of just feel so lethargic, a bit like having a flu, a bit congested,” he said.
“Sore joints, cold sweats, bit of a headache, sore throat and generally all you want to do is lay in bed.”
Mr Marshall tested positive to COVID-19 early on Thursday morning. He had been to Christo’s Pizzeria in Paddington on Monday night with three colleagues before the sitting week began. The Five Ways Italian restaurant has been identified as a venue of concern.
On Tuesday night he attended Parliament and later that evening the NSW Nationals’ annual state budget fundraising dinner while unknowingly infected. Since then more than 40 people, including a number of government ministers, have been forced into 14 days’ isolation.
Victoria could be doubling vaccination numbers if they had supply: Foley
By Roy Ward
Victorian health minister Martin Foley said his state could be administering ‘double’ the number of vaccines if it had greater supply.
Mr Foley was asked about vaccine passports for those who have had their full course of COVID-19 vaccines but he said with just five per cent of the state vaccinated, that conversation was a long time from happening.
“One day, I want to be in the position of having the kind of conversations, the US, the UK, Israel, and other comparable societies that we like to compare ourselves to,” Mr Foley said.
“That’s because they’re at 50, 60 or 70 per cent fully vaccinated. We are not within a bull’s roar of that.
“We have our hands tied behind our back on the vaccination rollout program because of constraints from supply from the way in which the Commonwealth has mismanaged the process of distribution. We have to manage it in the best way we can.
“As the Chief Health Officer has indicated, we’ve built a collaborative process here in Victoria with our GPs, where we’ve built, in terms of the restrictions that we are operating under and supply, a pretty good system, but we could do much more we could do double the system that we have, instead what we’re facing, over coming weeks, is an actual reduction in both in particularly in Pfizer, before we have a ramp-up in the third and fourth quarters of the year.
“I would love to have that conversation about what does vaccinated population looks like in Australia, we’ll have to have that conversation. But when we’re sitting on 5 per cent of the population fully vaccinated, the sad truth is, because of the way in which the rollout has been bungled federally, we’ve got to get to a situation where we can have that conversation. And if you put a zero behind that five, maybe we could start to have that conversation. We’re not there yet.”
NSW crisis cabinet meeting imminent
By Georgina Mitchell
The COVID-19 briefing in NSW was cut short a few minutes ago, with NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard saying he needs to attend a crisis cabinet meeting flagged earlier by Gladys Berejiklian.
Earlier in the briefing, Mr Hazzard said it’s “fair to say there’s a growing and more intense concern by the health authorities here in NSW ... at the actions of this Delta variant”.
“The Delta variant is proving to be a very formidable foe – no matter what defensive steps we’re taking at the moment, the virus seems to understand how to counter-attack in different locations. that’s causing us a high level of concern,” Mr Hazzard said.
“My message to the community is, you well understand the basic rules: stay home if you’re sick, get tested and go home, wait for your results and follow health instructions. If you’re out and about, use the QR codes.
“I would also say to the broader Sydneysiders at the moment, if you don’t need to be out, this virus is certainly lurking in places we hadn’t expected and it’s waiting. It’s waiting to actually be able to extend it across Sydney. So my strong advice to the community is if you don’t need to be out, don’t.”
‘The situation is worsening’: NSW Premier
By Georgina Mitchell
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the situation in the state is “worsening” and she will act on any updated health advice “very quickly”.
“I’m just asking everyone to assess their own risk,” she said. “Unlike other variants, this variation of the virus means you’re more likely to pass it on to all of your household contacts ... we’re seeing families of 5 or 6, everybody getting it.”
She advised residents of NSW to exercise added caution and concern, adding: “When there’s lives and people’s health at risk, we will not hesitate to act very quickly”.
New exposure sites, released by NSW Health on Saturday, include:
- Great Ocean Foods at Marrickville between June 21 and June 25;
- Sydney Cheers Bar & Grill on George Street on June 20;
- Rebel Sport at Bankstown Shopping Centre, North Terrace, on June 24;
- Paloma Espresso Café on Shelley Street in Sydney, on June 21;
- Oporto and Pasta Italia Cucina at Casula Central Shopping Complex, on June 22.
Anyone who worked in, attended or was a customer at Great Ocean Foods from Monday 21 June to Friday 25 June and their household contacts is a close contact and must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result, and call 1800 943 553 unless they have already been contacted by NSW Health.
Anyone who directly received a delivery from Great Ocean Foods from Monday, June 21 to Friday, June 25, and their household contacts must immediately get tested and isolate until further advice is provided by NSW Health.
Wastewater detection in Melbourne’s north-east
By Roy Ward
Health officials have detected virus strands in wastewater from the Lower Plenty area.
Victoria’s chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton urged anyone in the surrounding suburbs to get a COVID-19 test if they have any symptoms.
The catchment takes in the north and north-eastern suburbs of Lower Plenty, Briar Hill, Bundoora,
Diamond Creek, Greensborough, Plenty, Macleod, Mill Park, South Morang, St Helena, Viewbank, Watsonia, Watsonia North, Yallambie and Yarrambat.
The sample was from June 22-24.
“This could be a historical case continuing to shed virus, but we are asking anyone who lives in or who has visited the suburbs to please watch out for the slightest of symptoms and come forward and get tested at one of the many local testing sites,” Professor Sutton said on Saturday.
Some newly-detected NSW cases have ‘on-transmitted’
By Georgina Mitchell
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has said an “increasing number of people have been undetected and infectious in the community” in Sydney, leading to growing concerns.
Dr Chant said two of the new cases detected last night were connected to Great Ocean Foods, a food wholesaler in Marrickville.
She said 28 cases were reported to 8pm on Friday, 17 of which were reported earlier, which means there were 12 new cases. Ms Berejiklian said the new cases have been linked, while one remains under investigation. She said unfortunately, not all of those people were isolated while infectious meaning some of them have “on-transmitted”.
“What we’re seeing is we’re mopping up a train of transmission that was not previously recognised,” Dr Chant said.
“There were a number of people who have been infectious in the community, unknowingly, for a period of time.”
She said one concern is that delivery drivers for the food wholesaler might have interacted with cafes and restaurants.
A Sydney ferry is cleaned while empty of passengers after another day of more locally transmitted cases of Covid-19.Credit:Janie Barrett
Anyone who directly received a delivery from Great Ocean Foods from Monday 21 June to Friday 25 June and their household contacts must immediately get tested and isolate until further advice is provided by NSW Health.
A total of 80 cases are now linked to the Bondi cluster and 20 of these cases are associated with a birthday party at West Hoxton Park.
There have been 82 locally acquired cases since 16 June 2021, when the index case for the Bondi cluster, a driver who transported international flight crew, was reported.
Victoria’s new case connected to Southbank apartment complex
By Roy Ward
Victoria’a new local COVID-19 case is a primary close contact of the Kings Park apartment complex in Southbank.
The complex has been in quarantine for almost two weeks to stop the further spread of the virus.
Victorian health minister Martin Foley said 246 primary close contacts were connected to the complex.
“I thank those people for the extraordinary efforts they’ve put in over the last two weeks,” Mr Foley said.
“They’re now moving into their day 13 tests over the weekend, and they’ve shown extraordinary endurance, and I want to thank them directly, for keeping themselves safe and doing their bit to keep all Victorian safe or going well.
“Those that apartments will be progressively cleared starting Monday, the support on the ground has continued throughout those 14 days and that’s been an extraordinary effort by everyone involved there.”
NSW records 29 further cases of community spread
By Georgina Mitchell
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned that lockdowns might be extended across more regions of Sydney after the state recorded 29 new cases of COVID-19 in the community.
Ms Berejiklian said 17 of those cases were reported on Friday, which means twelve further local cases were detected before the cut-off of 8pm last night.
These additional cases have been to exposure sites outside the four Sydney local government areas which have already been locked down.
Sydney suburbs in lockdown.Credit:Renee Nowytarger
Ms Berejiklian said because of these increasing exposure sites, “the health advice is evolving” and “if we need to take further action we will immediately notify the community”.
“Do not leave metropolitan Sydney under any circumstances,” she said.
“I will be holding a crisis cabinet meeting today to discuss the health advice with my colleagues and senior public servants so we can advise the community if we need to take further actions.”
Ms Berejiklian said she previously described this as the scariest time, “and I mean that”.
More than 55,000 people have come forward for testing in the state in the last 24 hours.
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