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Restaurants and cafes in Geelong, a gym in Ballarat and an IGA in Shepparton have been added as tier-1 exposure sites for COVID-19
In Geelong, The Groove Train in Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre was listed for October 8 from 10.40am to 12.15pm and October 9 from 1.30pm to 3pm.
Biryani King in Geelong was listed for October 4 from 1.35pm to 2.35pm and October 5 7.15pm to 9.25pm and 2Cousins Shisha Hookah Lounge and cafe was a site on October 9 midnight to 2am.
Body and Soul Genesis 24/7 Gym in South Ballarat was listed for October 5 from 10.06am to 11.46am.
And in Shepparton IGA Caf - Fairley’s Supa IGA was listed for September 30 from 11am to 12.15pm.
In Torquay, Bomboras restaurant was listed for October 6 from 11.50am to 12.50pm and Two Sugars eatery is an exposure site for October 9 from 8pm to 10pm.
Anyone who has been at any of these venues at these times must get tested immediately and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Australia’s medical regulator has invited Pfizer to apply to have its vaccine authorised for use in five to 11-year-olds.
Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine is provisionally approved for all Australians aged 12 and over. Within about four weeks of being eligible to get vaccinated, 54.5 per cent of 12 to 15-year-olds have had at least one dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration granted Pfizer a provisional determination on Tuesday which allows the company to apply to change the provisional approval of the vaccine to include children aged five to 11.
In a statement, the medical regulator said the provisional determination was “the first step in the process”.
It does not mean Pfizer has made the application, and it doesn’t guarantee the vaccine will be approved for that age group by the regulator.
On Tuesday, Health Minister Greg Hunt said he had spoken to the head of Pfizer Australia and expected the company to make a submission.
If the vaccine is approved for younger children by the TGA, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation will then also consider the risks and benefits before making its own recommendation on whether those children should be immunised.
Mr Hunt said so far during the pandemic, the TGA and ATAGI have been in step with their advice.
“I’m very confident that they have aligned their advice right throughout the pandemic and I would expect that that would continue,” he told reporters yesterday.
Last week, Pfizer asked the US medical regulator to approve its vaccine in five to 11-year-olds. In trials, the company has found one-third of the adult dose to be effective and safe in children.
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says we can expect hundreds of deaths from COVID-19 across the state after Greater Melbourne’s lockdown ends and the city and regions are reunited.
Here’s what he told ABC Radio Melbourne earlier today:
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.Credit:Jason South
The Doherty modelling, the Burnet modelling do tell us there will be hundreds of deaths over months to come.
The reality is our seasonal flu year-on-year causes an estimated 3000 excess deaths in Australia.
So that’s what we live with every year with flu. So we need to minimise to the fullest extent possible the deaths we can.
But we’ll do that through very, very high vaccination coverage. And hopefully the most minimal public health restrictions and measures that we can have in place.
A man has fallen 13 metres to his death while climbing a wall at an indoor rock climbing gym in Sydney’s inner west.
Paramedics arrived at the facility, on Unwins Bridge Road, St Peters, about 11.25am to reports a climber had fallen.
Four crews, including a specialist medical team, attended and treated the critically injured man, believed to have been aged in his 30s, but he could not be saved.
Sydney’s indoor gyms reopened on Monday after the city exited lockdown.
Read the full story here.
Workers at Melbourne’s Anzac Station site have tested positive to COVID-19.
It is not clear how many essential workers have tested positive. However, an email sent to stakeholders on Wednesday afternoon – seen by this masthead – advises that deep cleaning has been conducted at the future underground train station.
“We are requiring all team members to undertake a COVID-19 test and return a negative result before returning to work,” the email said.
“We will advise you when construction works are scheduled to recommence.”
Anzac Station, named for Melbourne’s nearby Shrine of Remembrance, is being built along St Kilda Road just south of the CBD.
It is part of the Melbourne Metro Rail Project (also known as the Metro Tunnel), which involves the construction of several new, underground train stations and twin rail tunnels under the city.
The University of NSW and University of Technology Sydney are among institutions that will make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for students to return to campus from this week.
UTS said people visiting the campus over the next few weeks, staff including contractors and students could attend campus “provided they have proof of vaccination and comply with COVID-safe requirements at all times”.
UTS is among many universities which have made COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for all staff and students returning to campus.Credit:Steven Siewert
The majority of classes for the spring teaching session, which ends on October 29, would continue to be held online. But study spaces in most buildings will be open for fully vaccinated students from October 18 onwards.
From December 1 until February 18, 2022 all fully vaccinated staff, students and visitors would be welcomed back on campus. The university said those unable to show proof of vaccination could provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test in the previous two days.
UNSW says that from this week only students who are fully vaccinated or who have a medical exemption will be allowed on campus and they must show evidence of their vaccination status.
Read more about how NSW universities are preparing for the return of face-to-face learning here.
The father of Victorian state MP Adem Somyurek was paid to clean his son’s electorate office, but didn’t perform the duties, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission has been told.
A former staffer of Mr Somyurek’s told Victoria’s anti-corruption agency on Wednesday the office was “dysfunctional”, “decrepit, rundown ... filled with cobwebs”, but that Mr Somyurek’s father invoiced taxpayers for the cleaning contracts.
Former Victorian Labor staffer Adam Sullivan also told IBAC some employees of Mr Somyurek’s collected wages without appearing at work regularly, and that the electorate office “misappropriated” up to $14,000 from its budget to support the election campaign of Mordialloc MP Tim Richardson.
Mr Sullivan said a 2018 ombudsman report into Victoria’s so-called “red shirts” scandal, in which Labor was found to have broken parliamentary rules by using $388,000 of public money to pay for campaign staff working on the 2014 state election, did not deter Labor MPs or staffers from misusing taxpayer funds for factional activities. The party has since paid back the money from the “red shirts” affair.
Mr Richardson’s office has been contacted for comment. The state MP’s beachside electorate of Mordialloc is part of Melbourne’s sand belt and considered a bellwether (meaning if a party wins the seat it is likely to form government).
Mr Somyurek published the following statement to his Twitter account this afternoon: “I always comply with my entitlements.”
Today was the third day of IBAC’s investigation into Labor MPs allegedly using taxpayer-funded staff and grants for factional activities.
The probe has already prompted the resignation of former Victorian aged care minister Luke Donnellan, who has admitted to breaking Labor party rules but says he never misused public funds.
Read the full story here.
WA Premier Mark McGowan has held his first press conference since mining magnate Clive Palmer lost his High Court battle against the state.
As reported earlier this morning, the High Court has rejected an attempt by Mr Palmer to scrap legislation that shielded the state of Western Australia from a compensation bill of up to $28 billion. The full court did not agree with the billionaire’s arguments that the legislation was unconstitutional.
“We did the right thing in stopping Clive Palmer,” Mr McGowan told reporters.
“We protected our budget and stopped a billionaire from Queensland taking $30 billion from this state ... that’s the entire state budget.
“We had to take this guy on and we had to protect our position.”
Meanwhile, Mr McGowan confirmed there were no new local cases of COVID-19 in WA today. None of the close contacts of the Australian diplomat who recently landed in the state, or a truck driver who recently tested positive, have tested positive so far.
WA Premier Mark McGowan has just finished addressing the media.
We’ll have the playback version with you shortly.
Less than a week before students begin returning to classrooms in NSW, thirty per cent of public school staff have not lodged their vaccination status, the state’s Education Minister Sarah Mitchell told parliament today.
Of those who have updated their status, almost 1000 are not vaccinated, although it is not clear how many of those have a medical exemption and how many have refused.
NSW teachers and other school staff must have two vaccinations before they return to campus, and will be required to take leave if they are not vaccinated by November 8. The state’s youngest and eldest students begin returning on Monday, and all other years will return on October 25.
The first tranche of warning letters to those who have not updated their status on the department’s Vax Attest app are due to be sent today.
Ms Mitchell said 89,000 staff members had updated their status as of 9am today. There are about 130,000 adults working in schools.
“Over 94 per cent [of those] are fully vaccinated, about 5.4 per cent are partially vaccinated and less than one per cent either have a medical contraindication or are not vaccinated,” she said.
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