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Watch live: NSW’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is due to provide a COVID-19 update from 11am AEST.
It comes after 11 new cases were confirmed yesterday and calls for Sydney to go into lockdown. Watch the livestream below.
Watch live: Victoria’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
The Victorian state government is due to provide a COVID-19 update from 11.45am AEST.
Watch the press conference live below.
‘Use whatever word you want’: Berejiklian on whether Sydney is in lockdown
By Broede Carmody
There was an insightful exchange between NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and a journalist at the state’s COVID-19 press conference just now.
Reporter: Is it a local lockdown? Is there a reason why you’re not using the word ‘lockdown’?
Berejiklian: You can use whatever word you want but what is important for me is to explain to the citizens who is directly impacted and what our citizens can and can’t do. And we are making sure that we get that information out. And I just ask everybody to come together and apply with a very proportionate response. We’ve chosen not to do the stay-at-home orders in a broader area. But as I say, every day we get data, every day we look at [what is appropriate].
Four Sydney hot spots plunged into lockdown
By Broede Carmody and Jenny Noyes
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has just announced that people who live or work in four local government areas will have to stay at home.
Those areas, all in eastern Sydney, include the City of Sydney, Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick. People will be allowed to leave home for four reasons: to travel for necessary work or education, outdoor exercise, to provide care or compassion to a relative and buying essential goods or services.
Business leaders are relived NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has not locked Sydney down despite its latest outbreak nearing 50 cases.Credit:Wolter Peeters
“If you live or work in those local government areas [LGAs], you need to stay at home unless absolutely necessary,” she said.
The lockdown will begin at 11.59pm on Friday. Ms Berejiklian says there won’t be a curfew.
The lockdown is set to run for one week, and for residents outside those LGAs, the existing restrictions will extend for the same period.
NSW records 22 new cases of COVID-19 in the community
By Broede Carmody
NSW’s daily coronavirus numbers are in.
The state has recorded 22 new cases of COVID-19 in the community.
Eleven locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were detected in the 24 hours to 8pm last night, six of which we already knew about. In addition, another 17 locally acquired cases were detected overnight.
Queensland not taking regional quarantine site off the table after PM’s pick
By Matt Dennien
Queensland’s acting premier Steven Miles is refusing to shelve the long-running push for a regional quarantine hub near Toowoomba, saying the project should be considered in tandem with a new site proposed by the federal government near the Brisbane airport.
After the federal government essentially blocked the plan this month through a range of criteria, including proximity to a tertiary hospital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison wrote to the government on Thursday night suggesting the Damascus Barracks at Pinkenba, about 8 kilometres north-west of Brisbane’s CBD.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles.Credit:Matt Dennien
Mr Miles said the proposal was welcome given the Commonwealth had recently ruled out defence sites in the state, but questioned why it had taken so long and said more work was needed to flesh out the one-and-a-half page letter.
“Wellcamp remains the only proposal of detail,” he said about the proposed Toowoomba site which the state believes could be built much quicker and bring more capacity to the quarantine scheme.
“I just emphasise that we have on the table a very detailed, highly costed proposal that could be built now, we could go ahead now, but instead the Prime Minister wants us to start from scratch with this other proposal.”
He said plans for the two sites should be worked through together, and pointed to suggestions about the Commonwealth facility only coming online next year as an insight into federal thinking about the rate of the vaccine rollout.
Sydney’s deserted CBD in pictures
By Broede Carmody
Sydney’s CBD has emptied off the back of mandatory mask-wearing and people being urged to work from home if they can.
Our photographers have been out and about documenting the city’s streets, ferries and trams. View the photo gallery below.
‘We were really careful with everything’: Melbourne dry cleaner with COVID
By Roy Ward
The Melbourne bayside dry cleaner who contracted COVID-19 says he took all the precautions but still picked up the virus.
Henry Li, who has run his dry cleaning business in the south-eastern suburb of Sandringham for 19 years, says he and his employee wore masks at all times, used hand-sanitiser and followed other precautions but it didn’t stop the virus spreading.
The Sandringham dry cleaners.Credit:Nine News
Mr Li’s employee returned from Sydney earlier this week and didn’t know he was carrying the COVID-19 virus which was passed onto Mr Lee while at work.
“This is horrible because we were really careful with everything. We still got it,” Mr Li told radio station 3AW on Friday.
“I don’t know what’s happened. We wear masks at work and use sanitiser to clean the hands.”
Both men are now in a medical hotel but on different floors. Mr Li said his wife and two adult sons have, so far, recorded negative COVID-19 tests and are isolating at home.
Mr Li also said his employee was showing symptoms of the virus and felt sick but he felt fine so far.
Mr Li is also concerned about whether his customers will return after he spent 19 years building his business in Sandringham.
“It could be a long time to get customers to have confidence to come back.”
Multiple alerts for Sydney cafe
By Mary Ward
Just in case you weren’t hanging out for COVID-19 venue alerts in the wee hours of the morning, a Potts Point cafe has been added to Sydney’s list of exposure sites.
Anyone who was at Cafe de la Fontaine at the following times should immediately get tested.
Cafe de la Fontaine.Credit:Janie Barrett
People who ate and paid outside must isolate until they receive a negative result and people who entered the cafe must isolate for 14 days regardless of their result.
The exposure windows are as follows:
- Saturday from 10am to 11.30am
- Sunday from 12pm to 1.30pm
- Sunday from 3.50pm to 4.50pm
- Monday from 3.15pm to 4.15pm
Mickleham pet complex chosen as Victoria’s alternative hotel quarantine site
By Broede Carmody
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s letter writers have been busy.
The PM has sent letters to the Queensland and WA premiers outlining some suggestions for alternative hotel quarantine sites.
The proposed site for a new COVID-19 quarantine centre is 40 hectares of vacant, Commonwealth-owned land on Melbourne’s northern edge. Credit:Joe Armao
We can now reveal that Victoria’s Acting Premier James Merlino also received some mail on the same topic. In the letter, seen by us, the PM names Commonwealth land at Mickleham (29 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD) as the site for Victoria’s dedicated quarantine facility.
It’s an interesting development because the PM previously indicated his preference for a dedicated quarantine facility at Avalon Airport near Geelong, about an hour from Melbourne. Mickleham was the Victorian state government’s preference.
“I am advising that we have determined that the land at Mickleham, currently owned by the Commonwealth Department of Finance, is the selected location for the facilities,” the PM said in his letter.
“I am also advising of our intention to build a facility with an initial 1,000 bed capacity, but opening when the first 500 beds are available to enable earlier opening.
“I have asked my officials to prioritise this project and I want to see that all efforts are made to deliver the first stages of the facility by the end of 2021.”
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