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Watch live: Qld’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles, Health Minister Yvette D’Ath and Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young are due to hold a press conference from 10am AEST.
Watch live below.
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NSW patients give positive review of virtual care
By Mary Ward
NSW public hospital patients who received virtual care last year have given a positive review of the experience, with patients across age groups and the rural-urban divide largely finding it an effective replacement for an in-person appointment.
The 2020 Virtual Care survey, conducted by the NSW Bureau of Health Information, surveyed 2618 patients who received care through a video conference or telephone call when remote appointments increased during lockdown restrictions last year.
People in NSW are largely satisfied with digital health appointments. Credit:iStock
Ninety-one per cent of patients rated the care they received as “good” or “very good”, a proportion which increased with the number of virtual appointments a patient had.
Sixty per cent of patients said they saved time with virtual treatment and 30 per cent said they saved money.
However, a third of patients believed the care they received was not as good as an in-person appointment and half said they would only choose Telehealth again in certain circumstances. Thirty-six per cent of patients said they would have been more comfortable talking in person.
Seventy-seven per cent of patients who received online care said they would speak highly of the experience to a friend or family member compared to 69 per cent of people who received treatment over the phone.
People aged 50+ were slightly more likely to speak highly of virtual care (73 per cent of respondents) compared to those aged under 50 (65 per cent). There was negligible difference in the satisfaction of rural and urban patients.
The federal government has extended funding for Telehealth to the end of 2021.
Would you support digital vaccine certificates for domestic travel?
By Broede Carmody
As my colleagues Anthony Galloway and Rob Harris have reported, Australians are set to use a QR-code vaccine certificate for international travel under a multimillion-dollar federal government plan to reopen borders.
However, the Morrison government is in disagreement over whether to extend the requirement to domestic travel. What do you think? We’d like to know.
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.”
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, for 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 city of Albury for several years and once stood as an independent to challenge federal 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.
The World of Fruit grocery in Campsie.Credit:Janie Barrett
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.
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