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Joe Biden calls on NY Governor to resign over sexual harassment claims
By Broede Carmody
To overseas news briefly and US President Joe Biden has called on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign.
It comes after a report handed down by the state attorney general found the Democratic governor had sexually harassed 11 women.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed multiple employees.Credit:Getty
Cuomo has so far resisted calls to hand in his resignation. Read more here.
And stay tuned for some analysis from our US correspondent Matthew Knott later in the day.
NSW’s COVID-19 press conferences to be streamed on TikTok
By Sarah McPhee
Starting today, the NSW government’s daily coronavirus briefings will be livestreamed on social media platform TikTok.
The 11am press conferences will be available on the new NSW Health account: tiktok.com/@nswhealth.
Brent Thomas, TikToK Australia’s director of public policy during a Senate estimates hearing last year. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
“In addition to the daily TV broadcast, the TikTok livestream will support the dissemination of accurate, timely and important public health messages to wider audiences and raise awareness amongst TikTok’s diverse community,” Brent Thomas, TikTok Australia’s head of public policy, said in a statement.
“We welcome the opportunity to support governments and health bodies around Australia in this vital work and to help spread the message.”
Back in July, the video-sharing app held a live Q&A with NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant on its TikTok Australia account.
Victoria records no new cases of COVID-19
By Broede Carmody
Victoria’s daily coronavirus numbers are in.
The state has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 in the community for the first time in just over three weeks. There were also no new cases in hotel quarantine.
There are now 99 active cases of coronavirus across the state, a sharp drop from yesterday’s total of 124.
‘Businesses on their knees’: New NSW-Victorian border bubble rules in place
By David Estcourt
For regional mayor Kevin Mack, Victoria’s latest restrictions are a “virtual closure” of the border with NSW that will damage local businesses.
From today, people who live in the NSW-Victorian border bubble will only be able to cross the Murray River without a permit to access necessary goods and services, care reasons, work and education, vaccination and exercise.
Albury City mayor Kevin Mack.Credit:Justin McManus
Mr Mack, who has been the mayor of the NSW town of Albury for several years now and once stood as an independent to challenge Environment Minister Sussan Ley, says state governments have “never understood” the complex social and economic ties that link his regional city to Wodonga, on the Victorian side of the border.
He says people from the cities see the border as concrete, but those living in the region view the border as much more fluid, and the latest measures as akin to cutting a city in half and enacting a lockdown.
“Where’s the rationale and where’s the evidence to support it? People just want to know why,” he said.
“If you’re going to lock us down and close us down, where’s the financial support? There are literally businesses on their knees here because they’re constantly impacted by the unknown.
“This virtual closure is going to further impact that whole proposition. We are treated differently to everyone in Australia, and no one gets it.”
He claims border towns along the entire length of the Murray River have taken a $1 billion tourism hit since the beginning of the pandemic.
Over the weekend, Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the Andrews government “don’t make these changes lightly”.
“The outbreak in NSW continues to grow, and with projections and modelling suggesting that the position in New South Wales is likely to get worse before it gets better, it’s prudent that Victoria takes measures to make sure that the border bubble operates as safely as we possibly can,” he said.
Morrison told months ago of need for locally made Pfizer-style vaccines
By Farrah Tomazin and Clay Lucas
Medical researchers and scientists have been lobbying the Morrison government for almost a year about the need to develop an mRNA vaccine manufacturing capacity in Australia, but action was delayed until a few months ago.
Some researchers began advocating last August for work on “messenger RNA” technology, which is behind the success of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and whose usefulness became clear as the global pandemic intensified last year.
Australian scientists and industry groups want to develop onshore capacity to make vaccines like the Pfizer mRNA shot.Credit:Getty
However, it was not until May this year that the government issued a so-called “approach to market”, inviting interested parties to provide a fully-costed proposal to manufacture the vaccines in Australia within one to three years. A dozen proposals to make the vaccines locally are now being considered.
More on this story here.
Fresh advice for 170 NSW exposure sites
By Sarah McPhee
NSW Health has added or updated advice for 174 sites across Greater Sydney on its list of COVID-19 exposure sites but only one of those has been identified as a close contact location.
The department has previously sent two to three emails listing new venues each day. However, yesterday’s one email, issued late last night, said “a number of new casual contact venues” could be viewed on the NSW government website.
The World of Fruit shop at Campsie is the one new addition to be identified as a close contact venue with seven consecutive days listed.
Anyone who attended the location at 244 Beamish Street between 3pm and 4pm on Monday, July 19; 6am to 7pm on Tuesday, July 20; and 5am to 7pm from Wednesday, July 21 to Sunday, July 25 must immediately get tested and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
As of this morning, there were 533 exposure locations listed. Six of those – in Campsie and Belfield in Sydney’s south-east and Belrose in the north-east – were considered a “transmission venue of concern”.
NSW Health adds this classification when a confirmed COVID-19 case attended the location and transmission occurred.
Sydney’s virus epicentre has lowest vaccination rates
By Lucy Carroll, Rachel Clun and Nigel Gladstone
Sydney’s hardest hit areas in the latest COVID-19 outbreak have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state, while areas in the eastern suburbs, northern Sydney and the Hawkesbury have the highest number of residents fully vaccinated.
Public health experts say lack of easy access to vaccines, complex booking systems and younger populations in the city’s south-west and west have hampered uptake and left people exposed to the highly transmissible strain of the virus.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Dr Kerry Chant at Tuesday’s COVID-19 briefing. Credit:Nick Moir
Health data released yesterday by Operation COVID Shield on vaccination rates by region show more than one-quarter of people aged over 15 in North Sydney and Hornsby statistical areas are fully vaccinated – the highest in the state – compared with about 14 per cent in the south-west.
Read the full story here.
Melburnians head for the country and Brisbane in wake of virus
By Shane Wright and Jennifer Duke
Melburnians are leaving the city and heading for cheaper housing and lockdown-free life in the state’s regions and other parts of the country as the coronavirus pandemic up-ends migration across the country.
A record net 11,800 people left the nation’s capital cities in the three months to the end of March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Tuesday, with Sydney and Melbourne feeling the pandemic-fuelled drain.
Melbourne’s streets all but empty during a lockdown earlier this year. Credit:Justin McManus
Since the start of the pandemic, a net 22,651 people have left Melbourne for other parts of Victoria. In total, Melbourne has lost a net 34,366 residents, including 3682 who have made the move to Brisbane.
More on this story here.
Cabinet backs QR-code vaccine certificates for travel amid party room disagreement
By Anthony Galloway and Rob Harris
Australians will use a QR-code vaccine certificate for international travel under a multimillion-dollar federal government plan to reopen the borders, but the Coalition is in disagreement over whether to extend the requirement to domestic travel.
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age can reveal the Government’s expenditure review committee of cabinet last week backed a proposal for vaccination certificates, which would lead to quarantine-free international travel. It would involve linking people’s vaccination status on their MyGov accounts – a secure online portal that stores Australians’ personal information – with new digital vaccination certificates and border declarations.
Australians will have a vaccine certificate for international travel, but the Coalition is split on whether to use it for domestic travel too.Credit:Shutterstock
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for the use of the certificates domestically on the basis it will encourage more Australians to get vaccinated faster under national cabinet’s planned four-phase reopening of the country.
But the issue remains contentious within the Coalition party room, with several MPs from within its conservative ranks voicing their opposition against any mandatory system.
Read the full story here.
This morning’s headlines at a glance
By Broede Carmody
Good morning and thanks for your company.
It’s Wednesday, August 4. I’m Broede Carmody and I’ll be anchoring this morning’s live coverage.
Here’s everything you need to know before we get started.
- NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has set a target of 6 million jabs in arms by the end of this month as a way out of lockdown. Yesterday, the state recorded 199 locally acquired cases of coronavirus. At least 50 people were infectious in the community – a number the Premier says is still far too high.
- Meanwhile, Brisbane’s outbreak has spread to far north Queensland after a man tested positive in Cairns. Yesterday, the state recorded 16 new cases (nine of them children). In total, there are 47 cases of COVID-19 in Queensland linked to the current outbreak and some 400 health workers are in isolation.
- We might have known it anecdotally, but it’s now official: data has shown that Melbourne’s lockdowns have up-ended Australia’s internal migration patterns. More than 22,000 Melburnians have left the city for other parts of Victoria since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. An additional 3682 have headed north to Brisbane.
- And Australians are set to use a QR-code vaccine certificate for international travel under a multimillion-dollar federal plan to eventually reopen borders. However, the Government is in disagreement about whether to extend vaccine certificates to international travel.
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