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| Coronavirus Australia live update: Victoria reports four deaths and 13 new Covid cases as NSW records four | Coronavirus Australia live update: Victoria reports four deaths and 13 new Covid cases as NSW records four |
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| NSW records no new locally acquired cases for fifth day as pressure mounts over border closures and budget speculation intensifies. Follow all today’s updates | NSW records no new locally acquired cases for fifth day as pressure mounts over border closures and budget speculation intensifies. Follow all today’s updates |
| The International Displacement Monitoring Centre – which looks at people who have been displaced from their homes by events, such as war, famine and natural disasters, has looked at the Australian bushfires. | |
| You can find the whole report here. | |
| But interestingly: | |
| Of the 64,578 total displaced people, around 14,500 children were displaced and around 8,000 were school-aged (aged 5-14). | |
| You may remember a little earlier this month, Save the Children made a submission to the bushfire royal commission, asking for systematic inclusion of child services as part of Australia’s disaster planning, so the needs of kids aren’t forgotten in the response. | |
| So that should help their case a little. | |
| First of all, everyone is on TikTok now. Secondly – what. | |
| I just checked in with Michael McCormack, and well, it is going as well as you would expect. | |
| My feed has dropped out, but the press conference was coming to its end. I’ll let you know if there was anything else. | My feed has dropped out, but the press conference was coming to its end. I’ll let you know if there was anything else. |
| Daniel Andrews then moves onto staying the course, even though there is a lot of hurt in the community at the moment, which has been caused by the restrictions: | Daniel Andrews then moves onto staying the course, even though there is a lot of hurt in the community at the moment, which has been caused by the restrictions: |
| Asked about the letter from the federal government asking for more students to return to school (Years seven to 10) Daniel Andrews says he understands it is difficult, but he is trying to look at the bigger picture: | Asked about the letter from the federal government asking for more students to return to school (Years seven to 10) Daniel Andrews says he understands it is difficult, but he is trying to look at the bigger picture: |
| Outdoor gatherings in Melbourne are limited to five. | Outdoor gatherings in Melbourne are limited to five. |
| So if you have three kids, you can not take your kids out to meet another parent with three kids. | So if you have three kids, you can not take your kids out to meet another parent with three kids. |
| But if your household is more than five, you can go outside together. The difference is the ‘gathering’ – a household going outside is not considered a gathering, but a meet up with people from another household, is. | But if your household is more than five, you can go outside together. The difference is the ‘gathering’ – a household going outside is not considered a gathering, but a meet up with people from another household, is. |
| The rapid testing kits you may heard a little about – are being tested against the gold standard in Victoria at the moment – but they want to make sure they reasonably catch as many infections. | The rapid testing kits you may heard a little about – are being tested against the gold standard in Victoria at the moment – but they want to make sure they reasonably catch as many infections. |
| What about their mental health? Has Brett Sutton heard reports of an increase in mental health issues in school students? | What about their mental health? Has Brett Sutton heard reports of an increase in mental health issues in school students? |
| Yes. | Yes. |
| Sutton: | Sutton: |
| Why aren’t more students back at school? | Why aren’t more students back at school? |
| Brett Sutton: | Brett Sutton: |
| Brett Sutton says Jenny Mikakos was “extraordinarily hard-working” in his first comments since her resignation as health minister. | Brett Sutton says Jenny Mikakos was “extraordinarily hard-working” in his first comments since her resignation as health minister. |
| But he says he and new health minister Martin Foley are also “on the same page” and he doesn’t believe the change will cause much disruption to the department. | But he says he and new health minister Martin Foley are also “on the same page” and he doesn’t believe the change will cause much disruption to the department. |