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Watch live: NSW and Victoria’s COVID-19 updates
By Broede Carmody
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her team are due to provide a coronavirus update from 11am AEST.
Watch live below.
Meanwhile, in Victoria, Roads Minister Ben Carroll and COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar are due to address the media around the same time.
Watch that press conference below.
V/Line driver tests positive to COVID-19 in Victoria
By Rachel Eddie
Victorian authorities have provided more details about the state’s recently reported COVID-19 death.
A man in his 70s from Coburg died with COVID-19 on Thursday.
“Our thoughts go out to that gentleman’s family and friends,” Road Safety Minister Ben Carroll said.
“This is tragic news.”
There are now 127 people in hospital, up by 16 from yesterday’s update, 90 per cent of whom have not had any vaccine. The other 10 per cent have had just one jab.
Nobody in hospital in Victoria has been fully vaccinated.
Mr Carroll has also provided details about a V/Line train driver who tested positive, forcing staff into isolation and disrupting services.
Twenty V/Line services have been disrupted so far, but Mr Carroll expects about 100 to be disrupted today in total. Five coaches are serving the network in their place.
Two COVID-19 cases die at home in Sydney
By Mary Ward
As reported, there have been nine COVID-19 deaths in the Greater Sydney region since yesterday’s update.
Two of these people – a man in his 70s from the city’s south and a man in his 60s from the west – died at home.
The other deaths were:
- A man in his 70s from south-east Sydney who died at Prince of Wales Hospital
- A woman in her 40s from south-west Sydney who died at Liverpool Hospital
- A woman in her 50s from the Central Coast who died at Gosford Hospital
- A man in his 60s from western Sydney who died at Royal North Shore Hospital
- A woman in her 80s from western Sydney who died at Ryde Hospital
- A man in his 30s from the Nepean-Blue Mountains area who died at Nepean Hospital
- A man in his 50s from south-west Sydney who died at Liverpool Hospital
“All of these individuals had underlying health conditions,” NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Marianne Gale said.
“Three were fully vaccinated, three had had a single dose of a vaccine and three were unvaccinated.
“As we have seen today, as well, a number of those two individuals were younger people and it is an important reminder for everybody in the community of the need to be vaccinated, to be aware that COVID-19 causes serious illness, hospitalisations, ICU admission, and death.”
NSW records 1542 cases and nine deaths as Premier scraps daily press conference
By Mary Ward
NSW reported 1542 new local coronavirus cases and nine deaths on Friday, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced she would no longer be doing daily press conferences.
“Sunday will be the last day we officially do a press conference in this way,” Ms Berejiklian said.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at Friday’s COVID-19 update. Credit:James Brickwood
“From Monday at 11am, Health will provide a daily health update [via an online video] and myself and [Health Minister Brad] Hazzard or any other relevant Minister will present to the community on a needs basis.”
The nine deaths recorded since yesterday’s update include a man in his 30s from Nepean Blue Mountains who died at Nepean Hospital.
“As the modelling we released [this week] indicated, we are expecting the peak number of cases to happen in the next week or so,” Ms Berejiklian said.
Some “tweaks” have been made to the slight easing of rules around outdoor recreation for the fully vaccinated, due to come into force on Monday.
In local government areas of concern, people who are fully vaccinated in a household may now gather for two hours for outdoor recreation, in addition to exercise.
Children aged under 12 will not be included in the five-person cap for outdoor gatherings of fully vaccinated people outside of these areas.
The Premier said 76.4 per cent of the NSW adult population had now received a first dose and 43.6 per cent were fully vaccinated. These figures, previously announced at press conferences, will now be published by NSW Health on its website.
NSW-Qld border bubble to return for LGAs out of lockdown
By Matt Dennien
Some good news for residents of NSW-Queensland border communities today, with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announcing a return of the existing border bubble for the local government areas coming out of lockdown tomorrow.
Ms Palaszczuk said this meant students and essential workers — who are unable to work from home — would again be able to cross the border between the 12 NSW local government from 1am on Monday.
“So it’s basically going back to that border bubble that we had previously,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
She said authorities on both sides would be monitoring the situation closely, as NSW had flagged a return to lockdown for those local government areas should they record a COVID-19 case.
Police watching roads out of Melbourne as Vic regions exit lockdown
By Rachel Eddie
Only one person has been fined for travelling from Melbourne to a regional city without permission after country Victoria took steps out of lockdown from midnight.
Greater Melbourne and Shepparton remain in lockdown.
Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent told radio station 3AW one person had been fined overnight.
“Other than that it was very, very quiet. We were not seeing the exodus of people, which is fantastic,” Mr Nugent said.
About 200 officers are policing the roads, intercepting cars and using automatic number plate recognition to stop Melburnians in lockdown from travelling to the regions.
Most of the people travelling were essential workers – doctors, nurses, food suppliers – who have permits to travel.
Booze buses have also been deployed at random checkpoints as part of the police operation and officers will be monitoring tourist areas such as the surf coast over the weekend.
Police are also checking identification of people on V/Line trains and in venues in regional towns.
The force has become aware of Melburnians booking vaccine appointments in the regions, which Mr Nugent said was “clearly not a valid reason” to leave the city.
He said it was “disappointing” another anti-lockdown was planned for Saturday.
“I understand everyone’s frustration but at the moment you could end up with a super-spreading event and that’s the last thing we want,” Mr Nugent told 3AW.
“During a pandemic it is just straight out not lawful. So we need to take action to prevent it in the first instance and ensure compliance with the [Chief Health Officer’s] directions if it does occur.”
Queensland school student tests positive to COVID-19
By Matt Dennien
Queensland has reported one new local case of COVID-19 in a school student as authorities race to control a new COVID-19 scare stemming from an infected NSW truck driver who travelled through the populated south east this week.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the case detected in a 13-year-old, who attends St Thomas More College in Sunnybank, was still under investigation. However, students would be sent home as a precaution.
“They are to stay at home until we get some more information,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
Authorities issued an alert late on Thursday for the driver who had spent two days in the community while infectious on Sunday and Monday after travelling through NSW. The driver is the fourth truckie to raise concerns in the Sunshine State over the past fortnight.
A number of close and casual contact sites have been identified, including a BP service station in Archerfield and stores within the popular Westfield Garden City shopping centre, in Brisbane’s south.
In response, Queensland Ambulance Service has stood up a mass testing clinic at the Eight Mile Plains Community Health Centre.
NSW Premier says she and CHO are ‘joined at the hip’
By Broede Carmody
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has reiterated that there is no bad blood between herself and NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant.
As you might know, there are some reports that Dr Chant wanted NSW’s current road map (the opening of pubs, restaurants and gyms to the fully vaccinated) to kick in at an 80 per cent double-dose vaccination rate, not a 70 per cent rate.
In case you missed it, here’s a rather insightful exchange between Sunrise co-host Natalie Barr and the Premier from earlier this morning:
Barr: You have stood at the press conference for weeks and weeks and weeks now and said we listen to the health advice. Did your CHO Dr Kerry Chant recommend or advise you that we don’t open at 70 per cent? That we wait to 80 or 85 [per cent]?
Berejiklian: Well, Dr Chant is part of the chief medical officers that inform what the national advice is to all of us. We are joined at the hip. Dr Chant and I speak regularly on a daily basis and I would, the NSW government, would not announce or endorse anything unless she felt comfortable enough. That’s always the proviso.
Watch live: Qld’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her team are due to provide a coronavirus update around 10.45am AEST.
Watch live below.
‘Move the narrative’: Committee for Melbourne pushes for clearer road map
By Rachel Eddie
The Committee for Melbourne has reiterated calls for a more detailed road map for when Victoria comes out of lockdown.
The non-partisan lobby group has called for the economy to reopen off the back of high vaccination rates and rapid antigen tests, international vaccine passports and dedicated quarantine facilities.
“We need a transparent, consistent plan to help all sectors of the economy recover and rebuild, based on a phased, ambitious return to the CBD and a commitment to reopen for good once government mandated vaccination targets are met,” the Committee for Melbourne said in a statement on Friday.
“Our city is the beating heart of our state’s economy, and we must focus on its recovery for the state to fully recover.”
The committee wants all governments to work together to accelerate the vaccine rollout with advertising programs and for the private sector to assist with vaccinations where suitable.
“Business is up for it.”
The hardest-hit sectors also need stronger support to get by until then, according to the Committee for Melbourne, with the lobby group’s members expecting the city’s economic recovery to take between two and five years.
“If we can open up and support our business and community, Melbourne’s foundational attributes such as open spaces, arts and culture, research and education institutions industry can once again prosper and thrive as restrictions are eased.”
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