Australia Covid news live: 141 new cases and two deaths in NSW, including woman in her 30s; Victoria records 11 new cases
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Version 5 of 19. Follow all the latest updates, live Berejiklian is asked whether it is time to exempt vaccinated people from lockdowns in the hope that that will persuade more people to get vaccinated quickly “because they want that freedom as well”? The answer: no, or at least, not yet. She says the government won’t be able to consider easing restrictions for vaccinated people until “a larger proportion of the population is vaccinated”. Gladys Berejiklian warns that yesterday’s protests could result in a spike in Covid cases. Worboys says yesterday’s protests did not take police by surprise: “I’m well aware that the police executive and indeed all the intelligence around that – we have been working on that for weeks, weeks now, well over two weeks that I can recall.” NSW police deputy commissioner Gary Worboys says police have issued 510 infringement notices in the past 24 hours, “the vast majority of those to people whose behaviour yesterday in and around Sydney could only be described as violent, filthy behaviour, risky behaviour, that police will continue to investigate”. Worboys says a strike force has been set up to identify all the protesters: “So I expect over the next few days and perhaps weeks that that number of penalty infringement notices will continue to be high.” He says that at 1pm the police minister and deputy will provide further information. McAnulty says NSW health is particularly concerned about a gathering of people in Pendle Hill. There are 141 Covid cases in hospital. Of these, 43 people are in intensive care, and 18 needing ventilation. McAnulty says that of the people in intensive care, “one is in their teens, seven are in their 20s, three in their 30s, 14 are in their 50s, and 12 are in their 60s, and six are in their 70s”. “So this is affecting people of all ages with very serious disease... One person has just received one dose of vaccine,” he says. McAnulty has since clarified that of the 43 people in intensive care, 42 of them have not had any dose of the vaccine. As I mentioned earlier, NSW has recorded two deaths overnight. These include a woman in her late 30s from the Sydney CBD area, and a woman in her 70s from south-west Sydney. “These are very tragic events and our sympathy goes out to their family, friends and loved ones,” McAnulty said. NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty is providing the Covid-19 health update. NSW has recorded 141 locally acquired cases, up until 8pm yesterday. Of the 141 locally acquired cases, 87 are linked to other cases in the cluster and 54 remain under investigation. There are no new overseas acquired cases. There are now 2,081 cases associated with this outbreak since 16 June. NSW has seen a record number of more than 102,000 tests across the state up until 8pm yesterday. Berejiklian says she is “absolutely disgusted” by yesterday’s anti-lockdown protests. Berejiklian reassures that the government is acting on the advice of experts. Berejiklian says the government is “doing all we can” to increase vaccination rates in the five local government areas most affected by the outbreak. Berejiklian says measures include: NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian says she wants to make two points this morning. First, she is urging everyone who can to come forward and get vaccinated. |