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Watch live: NSW and Victoria’s COVID-19 updates
By Broede Carmody
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Deputy Premier John Barilaro, Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell and NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Marianne Gale are due to provide coronavirus update from 11am AEST.
Watch live below.
Meanwhile, Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley and COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar are also providing a coronavirus update.
Watch that press conference live below.
More charges laid after Melbourne anti-lockdown rally
By Erin Pearson
Victoria Police have charged a 44-year-old Melbourne man with assaulting an emergency worker following an anti-lockdown rally in the city’s CBD over the weekend.
A police spokeswoman said Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives executed a search warrant at an address in Mulgrave, in Melbourne’s south east, on Friday morning as part of an ongoing investigation into numerous assaults on police at Saturday’s rally.
“A 44-year-old Mulgrave man has been charged with affray, assaulting an emergency worker on duty and breaching the Chief Health Officer directions,” the spokeswoman said.
The man has since been bailed to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on February 10.
The arrest comes a day after police appealed for information from the public to help identify images of those who attended the rally and were wanted for questioning.
The spokeswoman said two of the eight people had since been identified, with inquiries ongoing.
NSW agrees to work with Qld on moving Tweed border
By Stuart Layt
Queensland and NSW have had an apparent breakthrough over the issue of the border communities around Tweed Heads and Coolangatta.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles said he had now received a letter from NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro indicating the NSW government was willing to talk about moving the border south temporarily to bring the Tweed shire under Queensland’s coronavirus restrictions.
The NSW government last week completely ruled out any movement of the border, and Mr Miles said the change of heart was welcome.
“We will work with them to keep the border safe and minimise impact to the extent it’s possible,” he said.
Under Queensland’s proposal, the Queensland border would be temporarily extended to the Tweed River, which the Queensland government believes would result in fewer checkpoints.
Tweed Shire Mayor Chris Cherry is calling for the border to encompass the whole Shire, to avoid a similar issue with cutting the community in half.
Victorian Health Minister tight-lipped on lockdown extension
By Ashleigh McMillan
Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley has not been able to rule out a lockdown extension next week, with no certainty around when children will be able to return to school.
Health Minister Martin Foley said he was “keen” to see schools reopened, with work still being done to get VCE students back into classrooms.
He said the one constraint holding the state government back from planning the reopening of schools was the issue around vaccine supply certainty.
“This particular outbreak has been disproportionately in younger people, so you have to make sure that when we do reopen schools, it’s done safely,” Mr Foley said.
“We’ll make all of those decisions [including on the lockdown] based on the most up-to-date advice, and at the moment with another six days to go, it’s too early to make that call.”
A breakdown of Victoria’s new cases
By Ashleigh McMillan
As reported earlier, Victoria recorded 79 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 today.
Here’s the breakdown so far, according to Health Minister Martin Foley and COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar.
- Ten cases connected to Shepparton;
- One new case in the Royal Melbourne Hospital cluster;
- Nine new cases connected to Broadmeadows;
- Six new cases connected to the Carlton-Brunswick cluster;
- Two new cases in Caroline Springs outbreak;
- Forty-six new cases in Melbourne’s western suburbs, including 12 in Wyndham and 11 in Newport;
- One new case in Geelong;
- Two new cases in the City of Monash; and
- Two other cases still under investigation.
Positive cases notified by automated text message in NSW
By Sarah McPhee
NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Marianne Gale has been asked about delays in people who test positive to COVID-19 being contacted by NSW Health for advice and assistance with their living situation, particularly those with children.
She said the growth in cases has been a “challenge” and a “stress” on services including contact tracing and clinical teams.“We continue to recruit and train and surge those teams to meet the demand,” she said.
Dr Gale noted recent changes to the process of contacting positive cases, who now receive an automated text message to advise them of their result, to stay in isolation and contact their household contacts. It also includes a number to call for assistance and tells them clinical teams will be in touch.
“Everybody is working extremely hard to make sure that we reach people, let them know that they’re positive, let them know what services are available ... link them in with clinical care,” Dr Gale said.
“For anyone who is diagnosed with COVID-19 and if you are concerned about your health, you can reach out to the clinical team caring for you, you can contact your GP, you can contact [24/7 information service] healthdirect.”
She said in a medical emergency, people should call triple zero but also noted the ambulance service is a “precious resource”.
“Our ambulance service is there for medical emergencies and please, at this time, they need to focus their response, including for people who have COVID-19,” Dr Gale said.
New Zealand’s COVID cases jump by 70
By Chris Zappone
The number of coronavirus cases in New Zealand increased by 70 on Friday, taking the total number of active cases in the country to 347.
The information was released less than two hours before the NZ government is set to announce whether to extend a national lockdown.
Yesterday, the country recorded 68 new COVID-19 cases in Auckland and Wellington.
The NZ government is expected to announce whether the country will remain in a national lockdown around 1pm AEST.
Auckland is set to remain at its strictest stay-at-home settings until August 31 at a minimum.
No new cases in Queensland; restrictions set to ease further
By Stuart Layt
Queensland is easing restrictions further, as it records 20 days without community spread of the virus.
There was just one case recorded in Queensland today, but it was detected in hotel quarantine, with no new cases of community spread.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says because of that, the affected areas of the state can now go back to the restrictions which were in place before the most recent outbreak.
Pubs and clubs can double capacity with people being allowed to be within two square metres of each other, and dancing is allowed again, while 100 guests will be allowed at private homes and 200 people at weddings and funerals.
The exception will be masks, which will remain mandated for enclosed spaces and for areas where people cannot socially distance.
“Going forward because of what’s going on in NSW, particularly what’s going on near the border, we’ll continue some restrictions in particular masks,” Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said during today’s coronavirus update.
The easing of restrictions will take place from 4pm today.
Victoria’s western suburbs ‘significant area of concern’: COVID-19 response commander
By Ashleigh McMillan
Victoria has seen a “significant evolution” in its COVID outbreak, according to the state’s COVID-19 response commander, with concerns about community transmission in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
After 46 new cases were found in the western suburbs on Friday, Jeroen Weimar urged those in local government areas such as Wyndham and Newport to get tested if they have any symptoms.
“It’s a significant area of concern,” he said.
“We believe multiple chains of transmission, and really we’re looking at some quite significant community transmission now ongoing.”
Mr Weimar said there were now 150 positive cases in the western suburbs. The outbreak has evolved from school-based clusters to a large growth in cases over the last week in areas such as Shepparton, in Victoria’s north.
Health Minister Martin Foley said the western suburbs of Melbourne had a larger outbreak because more essential workers lived in those LGAs.
“Then there are other issues about a very small number of people – they’re not just confined to the western suburbs – who don’t follow the rules, and that puts everyone at risk,” he said.
Vaccine bookings made today for children 12-15 ‘will be honoured’: NSW Premier
By Sarah McPhee
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says any COVID-19 vaccine bookings for children aged 12 to 15 “made successfully” today, will “of course, be honoured”.
“We encourage parents who are inclined to make those bookings to do so,” she said.“Of course, what we would also love when it’s available, is more [Pfizer] vaccine.”
Ms Berejiklian said they are considering in-school vaccination programs and there are already plans in place for family vaccinations in parts of western and south western Sydney.
Earlier, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said COVID-19 vaccine bookings would open for children aged 12 to 15 from September 13.
However, some Sydney parents have reported being able to book vaccines for their children aged 12 and above already this morning.
Morrison has a ‘promising lead’ for further Pfizer doses
By Katina Curtis
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has hinted that Australia could have a further influx of Pfizer from overseas, saying he’s working on a “promising lead” for getting more doses.
Earlier in August, Australia secured a million doses from Poland, which have bumped up the supply available in younger people.
The Prime Minister added that he had already spoken to his older daughter (who is in recently approved 12- to 15-year-old age group) about the vaccine.
“They’ll be going along to their GP to get that opportunity very, very soon we hope – we’ll get in line and make the booking like everybody else,” he said.
“I would be encouraging other parents over the course of these couple of weeks to have that conversation with your kids about getting that vaccination and why it’s important.”
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