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Watch live: NSW and Victoria’s COVID-19 updates
By Broede Carmody
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her team are providing an update on the state’s road map out of lockdown.
Watch live below.
Meanwhile, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is due to provide a coronavirus update from 11.15am AEST.
Watch live below.
Victoria to watch NSW closely in coming weeks
By Cassandra Morgan
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says an announcement about what restrictions will be eased once the state reaches 90 per cent vaccination is not imminent.
However, given NSW is a few weeks ahead of Victoria in terms of its vaccine rollout, the state will have the benefit of watching how it performs in the coming weeks.
“Over these next few weeks, we’re going to be able to watch very closely and see what happens in NSW as they open up,” the Premier said at this morning’s coronavirus update.
“What does it mean for the health system, what does it mean for the nurses for the doctors, what does it mean for case numbers – all of those things.
“We wish them well but we will get the benefit of that, much like I’m sure they got the benefit of watching on and observing our second wave last year.”
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced unlimited home visitors and outdoor gatherings will be allowed when the 90 per cent double-dosed threshold is reached. Mr Andrews said he had not seen the modelling that underpinned NSW’s decision.
NSW CHO expects state will reach 92 per cent vaccination
By Mary Ward
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant says she is confident NSW could reach 92 per cent vaccination coverage with the available COVID-19 vaccines in both the 16 and over and 12 to 15-year-old age groups.
For context, NSW’s five-year-old vaccination rate is about 95 per cent.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant.Credit:James Brickwood
“I’m actually optimistic that we can achieve that in a very short period,” Dr Chant said.
“I’m not actually sensing a lot of hesitancy in the community but it doesn’t mean that people haven’t got questions that they want to have answered and I would just urge everyone to go to websites that can be trusted.”
Earlier in the press conference, Dr Chant encouraged people aged 16 to 39 who have not had access to COVID-19 vaccines for as long as some older age groups to come forward for vaccination.
“Now is the time to ensure that you are protected,” she said.
“One dose gives you some protection, but ideally you need that second dose and you need a good two weeks beyond that to have good levels of protection.”
Worker permits to remain until NSW hits 70 per cent vax rate; QR codes to be reviewed
By Mary Ward
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the authorised worker permits currently required by people in Sydney’s 12 local government areas of concern will remain in place until the state reaches its 70 per cent double-dose reopening target.
The permits are one of the few remaining restrictions in these areas, after other measures – including the curfew and time caps on outdoor exercise – were recently scrapped.
“If we haven’t commented, every setting stays in place until we hit the 70 per cent double dose,” Ms Berejiklian said at this morning’s coronavirus update.
“That is why I am saying to people we literally have this week and next week to get through.”
The Premier was also asked about the future of the state’s QR code system, and whether that would eventually be retired as part of its public health response.
“We are considering the future of QR codes in the context of tracking and tracing and isolation and quarantine,” she said.
“Those are decisions we have not yet taken and are not decisions we have to take in the next couple of weeks: we have until at least December 1, so we will make a decision way before then.”
A breakdown of Victoria’s 705 new cases of COVID-19
By Cassandra Morgan
Victoria’s COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimer has just provided a breakdown of the state’s 705 new cases.
Here’s what he had to say:
- There are 412 new cases in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, including 210 in Hume, and some in other areas including Craigieburn, Roxburgh Park, Meadow Heights, and Epping;
- A total of 165 new cases are in the western suburbs, including 165 in Point Cook, and others in Tarneit and Truganina;
- There are 84 cases are in the south-east suburbs, including in Pakenham, Dandenong, and Hampton Park;
- Thirty two are in the east, including in Boronia and Camberwell; and
- Twelve are in regional Victoria, including four in the Macedon Ranges (all household contacts), two in the Mitchell Shire (one household primary close contact, one not), two in Geelong (close contacts), one in the Baw Baw Shire and one in Ballarat.
Mr Weimar pointed out particular COVID-19 hotspots of interest, including a manufacturing facility in the northern suburbs where 19 people have now tested positive.
More than a third of Victorian children aged 12 to 15 vaccinated with one dose
By Cassandra Morgan
Thirty-three per cent of Victorians aged between 12 and 15 have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Acting Chief Health Officer Ben Cowie.
“This is a really important demographic and will go a long way to assisting us [with] the safe reopening of our schools as heralded in the road map,” he said during Monday’s COVID-19 update.
Premier Daniel Andrews earlier said that 23 per cent of Monday’s new COVID-19 cases were people in their 20s.
Vaccinated and unvaccinated NSW residents to live under same restrictions from December 1
By Mary Ward
As we reported earlier, people who have not been vaccinated will live under the same restrictions as people who have from December 1.
It is at this stage of the road map that venues such as nightclubs can reopen, indoor venues move to a two-square-metre capacity rule and caps on household visitors are removed.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been asked what incentive there is for people who haven’t been vaccinated to do so, given they will be able to live the same life as everyone else by the end of the year.
The Premier maintained that “today is an extremely disappointing day for the unvaccinated”.
“I think they assumed when we hit 80 per cent double dose they will have certain freedoms, but they will have to wait five or six weeks after others,” she said.
She noted that businesses – such as airlines – would still be able to make their own rules requiring patrons to be vaccinated after this date.
Grants on offer to Victorian GPs, pharmacies to help with roll out
By Cassandra Morgan
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a number of grants for community pharmacies and general practices to help with the COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
Speaking during Monday’s press conference, he said grants of $4000 and $10,000 would be available to pharmacies and GPs in 11 local government areas. There would be an expression of interests process over the next week.
The included local government areas were Moreland, Brimbank, Cardinia, Casey, Darebin, Greater Dandenong, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Melton, Whittlesea and Wyndham.
“So what [the grants] means is, for instance, that a GP surgery can operate additional hours because they can employ some additional staff,” the Premier said.
“A couple of pharmacists put it to me that, ‘I haven’t got enough room in the shop.’
“But if [they] had a bit of help, then they could rent some space next door … [or] just down the road, and they’d be able to run it … like their own [vaccination hub]in that space.
“So this is all about additional staff, additional wages, additional space – just common sense.”
Man in his 70s Victoria’s latest COVID-19 death
By Cassandra Morgan
A man in his 70s from Darebin, in Melbourne’s north, is the latest person to die with COVID-19 in Victoria.
Premier Daniel Andrews said during Monday’s coronavirus update that 363 people are currently in hospital with the virus in the state.
Of those, 75 are in intensive care. Of the people in ICU, 56 are on a ventilator.
The Premier said more than 78 per cent of people aged 16 and over in Victoria have had a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and more than 47 per cent have received their second doses.
NSW’s hospitals ‘not out of the woods’: Premier
By Mary Ward
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the state’s hospitals are “not out of the woods” despite hospitalisations appearing to stabilise.
“Pleasingly, the hospitalisation rate has not been as high as we had seen in the modelling and the ICU admissions have been a bit lower as well but it doesn’t mean we are out of the woods in terms of overwhelming our hospitals,” she said at this morning’s health update.
“Technically we are still looking at our system being overwhelmed in October.”
The Premier stressed she expected case numbers to “go through the roof” when the state reopened at 70 per cent full vaccination.
There are currently 1155 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital in NSW with 214 people in intensive care and 115 of whom require ventilation.
Although it reflects lower weekend numbers, there were only 93,577 tests reported in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday, prompting NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant to ask the community to please come out and get tested if they have any symptoms.
“Knowing that you have COVID is important for you but it also is important for your family and your loved ones,” she said.
NSW delays regional travel; unvaccinated to exit lockdown in December
By Mary Ward
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says people from Greater Sydney will only be able to freely travel to regional NSW when the state hits 80 per cent full vaccination coverage, not 70 per cent as was originally announced.
“That is when you will be able to travel freely throughout NSW, and we envisage that to be by the end of October,” she said.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announcing her state’s 80 per cent road map.Credit:James Brickwood
Ms Berejiklian said the state government expected the easing of restrictions already announced for when the state hits 70 per cent full vaccination of its population aged 16 and over to come into effect on October 11.
“I would just say to everybody: it is just this week and next week, please hang in there,” she said.
She added that it was expected the state will hit 80 per cent full vaccination “as little as two weeks” after that date, but did not give a specific date.
This is when household gatherings for fully vaccinated people will double to a 10-person cap, community sport will resume and people will be able to drink while standing up at hospitality venues.
The Premier said people who are not fully vaccinated will be able to exit stay-at-home restrictions on December 1.
The one exception is for places of worship: people who have not received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will be able to enter churches, temples, mosques and other religious spaces when the state hits 80 per cent full vaccination.
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