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Second Sydney primary school closed after COVID-19 exposure
By Mary Ward
A primary school in Sydney’s Hills District will be closed today after a confirmed COVID-19 exposure on site.
St Bernadette’s Primary School at Castle Hill will not be open for in-person learning after a person who recently attended the out-of-school hours care service tested positive to COVID-19, the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta said on social media.
“Families at the school have been contacted with further information,” the diocese said. “As always, the health and safety of the school community are our priority.”
The school is the second to be closed today, after Strathfield South Public School advised parents and carers it would be “non-operational effective immediately” after a member of the school community tested positive.
Year 12 students will return to schools in Greater Sydney on August 16 after a mass vaccination program for students in western and south-west Sydney. All other children will continue to learn from home for the remainder of the region’s lockdown, which has been extended to August 28.
Vaccination hub opens in Sydney’s south-west
By Sarah McPhee
A vaccination hub with a goal of administering 1000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses each day has opened in the grand ballroom of Bankstown Sports club in Sydney’s south-west.
The clinic is in operation every day from 8am to 5pm.
Bankstown Sports Club has offered its 1200sqm Ballroom to be converted into a vaccination clinic servicing the local community.Credit:Steven Siewert
“The local community has always been the backbone of Bankstown Sports and we have a strong sense of responsibility to do everything we can to ensure your safety and wellbeing,” the club said on Facebook.
Club chief executive Mark Condi told 2GB there is an online registration process but if you qualify for the AstraZeneca vaccine, “you can also just turn up”.
“We figured that the only way we can get our 600 staff back to work and our doors open is to meet the target that the government rightly said they want to reach,” he said.
“We thought the best way to get our staff back to work was to open our doors as a vaccination hub.”
Mr Condi said they had sent various communications in different languages to their 120,000 members regarding the vaccine availability.
The club, near the Bankstown train station and with on-site parking, is located at 8 Greenfield Parade, Bankstown.
Victoria records two new cases of COVID-19
By Broede Carmody
Victoria’s daily coronavirus numbers are in.
The state has recorded two new, locally acquired cases of COVID-19. The Department of Health says both are linked to existing outbreaks and were in isolation for their entire infectious period.
Zero cases were detected in hotel quarantine. There are currently 134 active cases of coronavirus across Victoria.
Read more here.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Square to buy Afterpay for $39 billion
By Cara Waters
In news just in, payments platform Square is set to acquire Afterpay in a $39 billion deal with Afterpay’s founders to stay on at the company.
Square will acquire all the shares in the Australian buy now, pay later company under a scheme of arrangement with an implied value of $US29 billion ($39 billion).
Afterpay’s Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen in Sydney. Credit:Eamon Gallagher
We’ll have more on this story shortly.
Melbourne Film Festival flips virtual and cinema programs to beat COVID
By Karl Quinn
Chris Pang was really looking forward to MIFF’s opening night.
“Since COVID started I’ve been in a cinema exactly once,” says the Melbourne-based Crazy Rich Asians actor and MIFF ambassador.
“I was so looking forward to a good proper after-party with real people for the premiere of Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife. I had a new Hugo Boss suit ready and everything.”
Coming to screens near you: Ling Ang, Chris Pang and Al Cossar demonstrate some of the many ways MIFF will reach audiences this year.Credit:Jason South
Whether Pang gets to wheel out the sharp threads or not will very much depend on what happens with Victorian COVID restrictions between now and August 12, which is the new date for the Australian premiere of Purcell’s movie, and for the start of the in-cinema portion of the 69th Melbourne International Film Festival.
Read how one of Australia’s major film festivals is adapting to lingering COVID restrictions here.
School in Sydney’s inner west closed after COVID link
By Sarah McPhee
Strathfield South Public School in Sydney’s inner west has advised parents and carers it will be “non-operational effective immediately” after a member of the school community tested positive for COVID-19.
“All staff and students are asked to self-isolate until you receive further advice,” an alert, emailed to school families this morning, states.
The closure is for the on-site attendance of staff and visitors to allow time for contact tracing and cleaning.
“NSW Health has requested anyone who has been unwell or if you develop any symptoms such as a fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, loss of smell ... or extreme tiredness to be tested at one of the COVID-19 testing clinics.”
Belinda Hamilton, among the school’s principal staff, said the safety and wellbeing of staff and students “is of paramount importance to us at all times”.
“While we recognise this will be disruptive and inconvenient for families, it is important that we follow NSW Health advice and take all necessary precautions to minimise the risk of further transmission to support our community,” she said in the email.
Students in Sydney are learning from home during lockdown unless they need to attend on-site due to reasons including being children of essential workers.
A number of venues of concern in Strathfield were listed on a Sunday night alert from NSW Health.
Shane Warne tests positive for COVID-19
By Ashleigh McMillan
Shane Warne is now isolating and will miss out coaching his cricket team London Spirit after testing positive for COVID-19.
The team was expected to face off against the Southern Brave at the famed Lord’s cricket ground today.
Former cricketer Shane Warne.Credit:AAP
“After feeling unwell this morning, Shane returned a positive lateral flow test and will isolate from the squad and support staff whilst he awaits PCR results,” a statement from the club said.
“No players have been impacted.”
A second member of the team’s management is isolating after also returning a positive COVID-19 test.
London Spirit is part of the newly-created The Hundred short-form cricket competition, which has eight teams across England and Wales. Each match spans just 100 balls.
Brisbane lockdown unlikely to end tomorrow: AMA’s Qld President
By Broede Carmody
The Queensland President of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Chris Perry, was speaking to Nine’s Today show earlier this morning.
He was asked how long Brisbane’s lockdown will go for. In case you missed it, the city went into lockdown on Saturday afternoon.
Here’s what Dr Perry had to say:
“I don’t think it will stop tomorrow, but we hope it will. [The lockdown is causing] destruction to the community and the economy. But that is what we have to do to stop [the spread of Delta] from being even worse, we don’t want a lockdown that goes like a Victorian lockdown, we prefer one that goes a few days.
“We will take it one day at a time and see what happens this morning and tomorrow and hope it has been nipped in the bud.”
Butcher, supermarkets among NSW’s latest exposure sites
By Sarah McPhee
A butcher and local supermarket in Sydney’s south-west is among the latest sites added to the NSW Health list of COVID-19 venues of concern.
Anyone who attended the 36 Meat Mart in Campsie, in Sydney’s south-west, at the relevant times is considered a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result:
- Monday, July 26 through to Friday, July 30 between 7.30am and 6pm; and
- Saturday, July 31 between 7.30am and 6pm.
The same goes for the An Phat Supermarket in Canley Heights in the south-west for Thursday, July 29 between 10am and 10.30am and the Fully Tabooly Kebab Shop in Pemulwuy, in Greater Western Sydney, for Friday, July 30 and Saturday, July 31 between 9am and 9.30am.
For the full list of exposure sites, visit the NSW Health website.
Freedom from lockdowns in November hinges on the nation’s young men
By Shane Wright and Katina Curtis
Restrictions on pandemic-fatigued Australians may start to be eased as early as mid-November under a national cabinet road map but it hinges on young men getting their jabs and laggard states struggling to get their residents vaccinated.
A surge in the number of people getting their first dose – 111,000 people received a vaccination on July 31 – plus high rates of people returning for their second dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca is lifting confidence about reaching the first key target of the national cabinet plan.
Medical staff prepare to administer vaccinations at the Bankstown Sports Club in western Sydney.Credit:Steven Siewert
States, territories and the federal government have set a four-phase plan towards fully reopening the country. The second stage, which would see eased restrictions on vaccinated people, requires 70 per cent of people over the age of 16 to be fully vaccinated.
To reach 70 per cent, the number of double-dosed Australians over the age of 16 will have to reach more than 14.4 million. As at July 30, there were more than 3.9 million people fully vaccinated.
Read the full story here.
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