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Coronavirus Australia live update: Daniel Andrews holds Covid press conference as Victoria reports 35 new cases and NSW four
Coronavirus Australia live update: Daniel Andrews holds Covid press conference as Victoria reports 35 new cases and NSW four
(32 minutes later)
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Jobs and precincts minister Martin Pakula is also at this press conference. He is talking about some of the grants being offered to Victorian businesses:
Professor Brett Sutton is then asked about some of the restrictions being eased today (very small easings)
Brett Sutton echoes his Queensland counterpart when talking about the dangers of a Covid infection:
Professor Brett Sutton about whether there is a benchmark of test numbers authorities want to reach before they are comfortable:
Will the Boxing Day test and Australian Open have crowds:
Daniel Andrews:
Q: When will venues be allowed to – particularly bigger pubs and restaurants – be allowed to have some diners and drinkers inside?
Daniel Andrews:
Q: Is there evidence between lock down 1 and 2, when the pubs and restaurants were open, if there was any infections from indoor dining?
Andrews:
But $5,000 is not a lot of money in 2020?
Daniel Andrews:
How are councils responding?
Daniel Andrews:
How will the new public spaces/outdoor dining spaces work?
Daniel Andrews:
Victorian jobs and precincts minister Martin Pakula is also at this press conference. He is talking about some of the grants being offered to Victorian businesses:
Victoria is also going down the road of turning roads and footpaths into dining spaces, to get the hospitality industry up and running again. NSW is also looking at doing this.
Victoria is also going down the road of turning roads and footpaths into dining spaces, to get the hospitality industry up and running again. NSW is also looking at doing this.
New York did it, and it’s worked – and so has Lithuania, which turned entire city centres into pedestrian mall/dining spaces/parks.
New York did it, and it’s worked – and so has Lithuania, which turned entire city centres into pedestrian mall/dining spaces/parks.
The way we live life is changing – but not all of it is going to be negative.
The way we live life is changing – but not all of it is going to be negative.
Daniel Andrews:
Daniel Andrews:
Daniel Andrews:
Daniel Andrews continues detailing today’s numbers:
Just 35 new cases since yesterday.
Sadly, there are 729 deaths due to coronavirus in Victoria, an increase of six – one death has been removed due to duplication.
Those fatalities are one male in their 70s, a female and one male in their 80s. Three males and one female in their 90s.
We send our condolences and best wishes to each and every one of those families. All of the fatalities are linked to aged care outbreaks.
There are 122 Victorians in hospital, 12 are in intensive care and seven of those 12 are on ventilators.
The numbers continue to fall and that is great news.
A total of 2,497,710 test results have been received since the beginning of the pandemic, an increase of 8,937 since yesterday.
We are grateful to each and every one of those people for coming forward and getting tested. These are essentially Saturday’s numbers. Not great weather, obviously the numbers are down on weekend – each weekend anyway.
We would always want more people – the highest percentage possible of symptomatic Victorians to come and get tested.
We don’t want a situation where test numbers are not an accurate measure of – not enough tests being done for us to have confidence that we have a clear picture of how much virus is out there.
We don’t want any steps in this safe and steady road map to be deferred or to be compromised. It is important that each and every Victorian comes forward and gets tested. We still have confidence in that number and the trend, numbers steadily increased throughout last week as they do each week.
It is a powerful reminder and my personal request and a request on behalf of all Victorians to get to the other side of this, if you have symptoms, however mild, please come forward as soon as you register those symptoms. That can be when you’re most infectious.
Don’t put it off for a day or two. You will get your results within a day. That is 90% of back within 24 hours.
It means we can care for you and make sure that in your choices and in the 14 days afterwards, you’re not putting anybody else at risk and we’re managing this as best we possibly can.
The Senate committee looking at issues surrounding the Aboriginal flag (copyright etc) is under way.
You can find the program, here.
Barnaby Joyce had a chat to the Seven network this morning, where he criticised the NSW Liberals for criticising the NSW Nationals, who attempted to blow up the NSW Coalition last week, and then came out with ... nothing.
Joyce does his best Principal Skinner “no, it is the children who are out of touch here”:
NSW has recorded four new cases of Covid in the last 24 hours – one is under investigation.
Peter Dutton’s office has released a statement announcing Islamic State East Asia has been re-listed as a terrorist organisation under the criminal code:
Daniel Andrews will hold his press conference at 11am.
You can find all your international Covid news with Helen Sullivan over here:
Kristina Keneally said Labor has taken a plan to the Senate to try and up the number of people accepted home each week:
