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| Coronavirus live update Australia: Victoria reports 12 deaths and 216 new Covid cases as NSW records seven cases | Coronavirus live update Australia: Victoria reports 12 deaths and 216 new Covid cases as NSW records seven cases |
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| Scott Morrison says vaccine will be ‘as mandatory as you can possibly make’. Follow today’s news live | Scott Morrison says vaccine will be ‘as mandatory as you can possibly make’. Follow today’s news live |
| That sound you hear here is the warning alarm going off in Scott Morrison’s brain mid-sentence: | |
| (Via his Studio 10 transcript:) | |
| Sarah Harris: All right, Prime Minister, we know you’re a busy man this morning. Thank you very much for your time. Maybe you could provide a jelly bean for everyone who gets jabbed? | |
| Morrison: That sounds like a good idea. That sounds like an excellent idea. | |
| Harris: Save a black one for me, they’re the best. | |
| Morrison: I don’t like the, I don’t like those ones. I like the red ones, so, anyway. | |
| Joe Hildebrand: Who likes the black ones? That’s a whole other segment. | |
| Harris: Typical. | |
| 2020 isn’t all bad. | |
| Haigh’s (the best chocolate, I will fight you all on this) has announced it is making gin chocolates, with three Australian distilleries – Adelaide Hills Distillery, Archie Rose Distilling Co and Melbourne Gin. | |
| This is not a sponsored post, or even something from a press release – just exciting news on this dark, dreary Canberra day. | |
| This sentence could have just cut out ‘to public health advice from’ and it would still make perfect sense. | |
| Paul Karp has an update on just how far the confidentiality surrounding national cabinet actually goes. | |
| Unlike Coag, the prime minister has said that national cabinet deliberations count as cabinet-in-confidence - which means you can’t learn anything, unless the prime minister releases it. | |
| I am seeing a bit of “hallelujah, this is the news we have been waiting for” in response to the announcement Australia has signed what amounts to a letter of intent for a vaccine which is promising, but not yet proven. | |
| This is not a magic pudding announcement. It’s paperwork. Towards a very optimistic outcome, yes, but there is no vaccine as yet. | |
| Natasha Stott-Despoja: | |
| Natasha Stott Despoja is delivering the National Press Club address. It is based on her book On Violence. | |
| Labor’s Julie Collins has responded to Scott Morrison’s claims on aged care today: | Labor’s Julie Collins has responded to Scott Morrison’s claims on aged care today: |
| Joe Biden has been officially designated the Democratic candidate for the November election. | Joe Biden has been officially designated the Democratic candidate for the November election. |
| Daniel Andrews was asked why there was the breakdown of infections within private aged care homes, as opposed to public aged care homes. | Daniel Andrews was asked why there was the breakdown of infections within private aged care homes, as opposed to public aged care homes. |
| (The state-run aged homes have not seen anywhere near the issues the private sector is seeing.) | (The state-run aged homes have not seen anywhere near the issues the private sector is seeing.) |
| Is Victoria trying to highlight things are better in the state-run sector? | Is Victoria trying to highlight things are better in the state-run sector? |
| Andrews: | Andrews: |
| NSW Health has put out its official announcement this morning: | NSW Health has put out its official announcement this morning: |
| Of the seven new cases reported to 8.00pm last night: | Of the seven new cases reported to 8.00pm last night: |
| Two are returned travellers in hotel quarantine – one from overseas and one from Victoria | Two are returned travellers in hotel quarantine – one from overseas and one from Victoria |
| Five are locally acquired, including: | Five are locally acquired, including: |
| One who is a close contact of a previously reported case whose source is still under investigation | One who is a close contact of a previously reported case whose source is still under investigation |
| One case is from South Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. | One case is from South Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. |
| One case is from Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. | One case is from Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. |
| One who is a close contact of a previously reported case whose source is still under investigation | One who is a close contact of a previously reported case whose source is still under investigation |
| One case is from South Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. | One case is from South Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. |
| One case is from Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. | One case is from Western Sydney whose source is currently under investigation, and one case is a household contact of this case. |
| A case has been confirmed since the reporting period, in a patient who attended Liverpool Hospital. Close contacts have been identified and advised to isolate for 14 days, get tested for COVID-19 and monitor for symptoms. Deep cleaning has occurred in areas where the outpatient received care and additional precautionary measures have been taken. This includes COVID-19 testing for staff who worked on the same wards the patient received care when they were infectious. Links to other cases are being investigated. | A case has been confirmed since the reporting period, in a patient who attended Liverpool Hospital. Close contacts have been identified and advised to isolate for 14 days, get tested for COVID-19 and monitor for symptoms. Deep cleaning has occurred in areas where the outpatient received care and additional precautionary measures have been taken. This includes COVID-19 testing for staff who worked on the same wards the patient received care when they were infectious. Links to other cases are being investigated. |
| If you have any cold or flu like symptoms at all, assume it’s COVID-19 until proven otherwise – isolate and get tested right away; don’t delay. | If you have any cold or flu like symptoms at all, assume it’s COVID-19 until proven otherwise – isolate and get tested right away; don’t delay. |
| Speaking to Braidwood FM (a NSW town about an hour outside of Canberra, which shall forever be known to me as ‘bakery town’ because of its amazing bakeries) Anthony Albanese was asked whether or not aged care should have been privatised. | Speaking to Braidwood FM (a NSW town about an hour outside of Canberra, which shall forever be known to me as ‘bakery town’ because of its amazing bakeries) Anthony Albanese was asked whether or not aged care should have been privatised. |
| That was a decision made under the Howard government, and it’s something you might be hearing a lot more of, once this initial crisis starts to calm: | That was a decision made under the Howard government, and it’s something you might be hearing a lot more of, once this initial crisis starts to calm: |
| Dr Nick Coatsworth will give a national update at 3.30 | Dr Nick Coatsworth will give a national update at 3.30 |
| There is a beat of silence in the Victorian press conference and Daniel Andrews makes a joke about having “learnt not to walk away when there is silence” because there will still be more questions. | There is a beat of silence in the Victorian press conference and Daniel Andrews makes a joke about having “learnt not to walk away when there is silence” because there will still be more questions. |
| Right on cue – there is another question. | Right on cue – there is another question. |
| Victoria’s health authorities are still working on advice on the Victorian local government elections, which are due to be held in October. | Victoria’s health authorities are still working on advice on the Victorian local government elections, which are due to be held in October. |
| Oh – and Victorian CMO Brett Sutton rejected reports claiming Victoria had half the number of contract tracers than NSW. | Oh – and Victorian CMO Brett Sutton rejected reports claiming Victoria had half the number of contract tracers than NSW. |
| Sutton also says that Victoria is getting to a point with case numbers, where it can start issuing alerts of where people newly diagnosed have visited - something the other states have been doing, and he says will be helpful for regional Victoria (which has had less cases) in particular. | Sutton also says that Victoria is getting to a point with case numbers, where it can start issuing alerts of where people newly diagnosed have visited - something the other states have been doing, and he says will be helpful for regional Victoria (which has had less cases) in particular. |
| OK. I think that is the main bits from all the press conferences – Scott Morrison’s, Daniel Andrews’s and Gladys Berejiklian’s but I’ll update you with anything I missed in that hour. | OK. I think that is the main bits from all the press conferences – Scott Morrison’s, Daniel Andrews’s and Gladys Berejiklian’s but I’ll update you with anything I missed in that hour. |
| In Victoria, CMO Professor Brett Sutton urges caution on people hanging all their hopes on one vaccine. | In Victoria, CMO Professor Brett Sutton urges caution on people hanging all their hopes on one vaccine. |
| He says everyone needs to wait and see what the outcome is – and there is a chance that even if successful, a vaccine may only have low success rates – just 20% of people for instance. | He says everyone needs to wait and see what the outcome is – and there is a chance that even if successful, a vaccine may only have low success rates – just 20% of people for instance. |
| Which is why he says it is important that we spread the vaccine hunt wide, while also investing in our own research. | Which is why he says it is important that we spread the vaccine hunt wide, while also investing in our own research. |
| Gladys Berejiklian is still worried about virus transmission in south-west and western Sydney: | Gladys Berejiklian is still worried about virus transmission in south-west and western Sydney: |