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Vaccine mandate will likely extend to more workers, daily activities: Victorian Premier
By Cassandra Morgan
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it’s likely the government will mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for more workers.
“But again, we want to do that, respectfully, we want to talk to unions, talk to workers,” Mr Andrews said during Tuesday’s coronavirus update.
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews. Credit:Scott McNaughton
He noted vaccinations had already been made mandatory for aged care workers.
Mr Andrews said he didn’t think it was appropriate to lock down people who weren’t vaccinated: “Like, how would you enforce that? That becomes incredibly difficult, right.”
However, he added:
I’ll make a bold prediction. You won’t be getting a visa to too many countries if you haven’t been double-dosed.
I think it’ll extend all the way through not just to getting on a plane, but I expect it will extend to booking a restaurant, booking a seat at the footy, the cricket, going to the theatre, doing all sorts of things.
We have no jab, no play in our childcare centres now because it works.
Victoria’s focus will still be on case numbers in lead-up to 80 per cent vaccination target
By Cassandra Morgan
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says tomorrow’s plan for eased restrictions will focus on how many COVID-19 cases are infectious in the community.
However, when 80 per cent of the population is vaccinated, that’s when the national plan kicks in and “from then, we will be much less focused on case numbers”.
“We will be much more focused on treating those that need to be treated and this is the living with COVID thing,” Mr Andrews said during today’s coronavirus update.
“Because every single person who gets vaccinated is one less candidate for either serious illness themselves, or one less person that can contribute to a chain of transmission that ultimately ends up with somebody in … [the] intensive care unit.”
Victorian schools won’t open tomorrow
By Cassandra Morgan
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he won’t be opening schools tomorrow as part of announcements about which restrictions are going to ease.
The Premier said during Tuesday’s COVID-19 update that authorities would finalise plans in the evening about what restrictions could be “modestly” eased once certain COVID-19 case number thresholds were met.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says schools won’t be reopening tomorrow. Credit:Scott McNaughton
“I’m not opening schools tomorrow, but we will have more to say about schools and about what might be possible,” Mr Andrews said.
He said he would have more to say about senior student cohorts.
The government has said it will prioritise getting year 12 students vaccinated ahead of their exams in October.
The plan will focus on the number of COVID-19 cases out in the community that Victoria can cope with.
COVID-19 is like ‘drowning on dry land’: Melbourne ICU doctor
By Cassandra Morgan
A Melbourne intensive care doctor says having coronavirus is “like drowning on dry land”.
Speaking during Tuesday’s COVID-19 update, Dr Stephen Warrilow, director of intensive care at Austin Health, said the sickest patient he’d seen with the virus wasn’t elderly, but in their 40s.
“You just cannot get enough oxygen, you cannot get enough air, no matter how much you try [with COVID-19],” Dr Warrilow said.
“The relentless effort to breathe is overwhelming until the point where the patient simply can’t safely maintain that anymore and we have to put a breathing tube down into their throat.
“To do that to a human being is a big deal.”
Dr Warrilow said COVID-19 patients almost invariably had a longer stay in hospital than other patients, and longer stays in the intensive care unit.
He said if hospital staff were overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit, someone was inevitably going to feel the impact of that.
“That necessarily impacts on our ability to care for other patients – that includes patients who might need major elective heart surgery for example, or major semi elective cancer surgery,” Dr Warrilow said.
He said staff were tired and “there’s a finite amount of time that people can keep this up”.
NSW Health Minister believes ‘bulk of community’ on-board with public health message
By Mary Ward
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says he is not concerned by small demonstrations against the state’s lockdown and vaccination rollout.
“I think the fact that our vaccination rates in NSW are going through the roof indicate the bulk of our community are very supportive,” he said.
An anti-lockdown protester is arrested and detained outside NSW state parliament. Credit:Getty
The Health Minister said it was a small minority of people in the state who were “listening to people with crackpot ideas” on social media.
“My strong advice would be to talk to your doctor about what you should be doing to stop this virus,” he said.
Mr Hazzard said he was frustrated by people who were expressing vaccine refusal, noting they would be the ones who would need treatment when the state opens up.
“They’ll still expect to come into our public health system, paid for by the taxpayers of NSW ... you’ve got to think about whether that’s a fair way of thinking, a just way of thinking”
A breakdown of Victoria’s new COVID-19 cases
By Cassandra Morgan
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has just provided a breakdown of the state’s 76 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases.
They are as follows:
- Seventeen linked to the MyCentre Child Care centre in Broadmeadows;
- Nine are in Shepparton in regional Victoria (all were in quarantine);
- Three are linked to the Millers Junction shopping centre in Altona North;
- One is linked to the Learning Sanctuary in Spotswood;
- One is linked to the St Kilda East outbreak;
- One is linked to a legal office in Melbourne’s outer east;
- One is linked to Al-Taqwa College;
- One is linked to retail warehouses in Fishermans Bend;
- Eleven are linked to existing cases, but the existing cases have an unknown acquisition source; and
- Thirty-one cases are mystery cases.
Professor Sutton said of Victoria’s now 841 active cases, 182 are aged between 0 and 9, 125 are aged between 10 and 19, 177 are in their 20s and 158 are in their 30s.
In case you missed it, 36 of today’s 76 new COVID-19 cases were in isolation for their infectious period.
NSW Health Minister criticises ‘negative’ unions
By Mary Ward
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has criticised certain health worker unions who have raised concerns about staffing and working conditions in the state’s hospitals.
It comes after two members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association spoke about their experience working in COVID-affected mental health units the ABC’s 7.30 last night.
“Certainly what I would say to the Nurses and Midwives Association is, instead of giving the negativity, how about you get out and back everybody and be a bit more positive,” Mr Hazzard said.
“I’ve noticed that the HSU, the Health Services Union, have been extremely supportive and positive and I want to acknowledge them for being out there and making sure the health community know that we’re all in this together, but I’ve noticed that one or two of the other unions are out being negative.”
Asked about concerns expressed by NSW Australian Medical Association president, Dr Danielle McMullen, last week that the health system may not have enough staff to deal with constant furloughing from COVID-19 exposures and the accreditation process for staff needed to be fast-tracked, Mr Hazzard was dismissive.
“The information the Premier and I are getting from the health system is we have appropriate staffing levels but it’s under pressure and it will be. We’re in a pandemic.”
ACT records 13 new cases of COVID-19; lockdown extended
By Nick Bonyhady
The ACT has recorded 13 new coronavirus cases overnight and each infectious person is passing on the virus to less than one new person on average, but the territory’s lockdown will be extended to September 17.
The lockdown had been scheduled to end on Thursday. Online learning will continue in the territory for the rest of the school term.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has confirmed another lockdown extension. Credit:Elesa Kurtz
There will be some minor adjustments to the ACT’s lockdown rules from 5pm Thursday, including allowing two hours of outdoor exercise rather than one. The construction sector will be allowed to partially reopen from Friday.
Only four of the cases announced on Tuesday were in quarantine for their entire infectious period. At least eight were infectious in the community unknowingly. Seven of the cases are linked to known clusters while six are still under investigation.
That means after about three weeks of lockdown, there are 242 active cases.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the lockdown extension is “absolutely essential” in order to reduce the current outbreak.
“Today’s headline case numbers show that we are bending the curve down and are getting on top of the outbreak,” he said.
“However, it is a slow process and it will take more time.”
Hesitancy around ‘one particular vaccine’ in Aboriginal communities: NSW Health Minister
By Mary Ward
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says there has been challenge around “one particular vaccine” in Aboriginal communities in western NSW.
“It’s very challenging and it certainly would have been preferable if the Indigenous community, the Aboriginal people across NSW had been vaccinated earlier, no question,” Mr Hazzard said.
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard. Credit:Rhett Wyman
The Health Minister said the Aboriginal Medical Service at Walgett had expressed they had struggled with take-up due to the available brand of vaccine.
Earlier in the press conference, Mr Hazzard urged people across the state to take whatever vaccine was offered to them.
“Unfortunately, the mixed messaging from the last six or eight months on the vaccines, particularly AstraZeneca, has not been helpful to the broader community’s understanding of how important it is to get vaccinated from any vaccine you’re eligible to get,” he said.
He described the failure of the vaccine rollout in remote Aboriginal communities as “disappointing” and “challenging”.
“And today we can either look back and say what we should have done or we can work on making sure things are as best as possible for the Indigenous community both in north-west of NSW and more broadly.”
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