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Australia Covid live update: Gladys Berejiklian confirms 145 new local cases in NSW; Queensland records one new local case; Victoria records 11
Australia Covid live update: Gladys Berejiklian confirms 145 new local cases in NSW; Queensland records one new local case; Victoria records 11
(32 minutes later)
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The treasurer has been asked about the significant groups of people who are “falling through the cracks” of these federal support payments, such as those on other government support schemes such as Youth Allowance.
Okay, the Victorian and South Australian press conferences are about it start. I might swap my main attention over to them.
Josh Frydenberg:
But don’t worry I’ll still bring you NSW updates and every post will be labelled to avoid confusion!
Josh Frydenberg is out and about this morning giving an update on the federal income support payments offered to people who have lost work in areas that are designated commonwealth hotspots.
Reporter:
The real crux of this press conference is to say “JobKeeper isn’t coming back”, after the NSW treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, called for its reintroduction amid Greater Sydney’s Covid -19 outbreak.
Berejiklian:
Frydenberg:
A reporter asks Gladys Berejiklian again if the prime minister lobbied her in any way, and again she avoids answering directly.
Frydenberg:
A reporter has asked if, before the first lockdown, Scott Morrison encouraged Gladys Berejiklian “in any way, to avoid a lockdown?”, and if “in recent days, the prime minister attempted to encourage [her], in any way, to tighten the lock down?”.
There were some updates from that press conference on the man who allegedly breached quarantine orders to enter Queensland, but I’ll bring you those after we hear from the federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, who is speaking now from Melbourne.
The New South Wales premier didn’t really answer.
Jeannette Young says health officials are considering if someone being fully vaccinated might affect the incubation time of the virus, although it’s also possible the man picked it up in hotel quarantine or in the community.
NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller says officers are continuing to follow up and fine those involved in the weekend’s illegal anti-lockdown rallies.
Young:
He warned against people attending a similar rally next weekend, despite his Victorian counterpart making a point this morning not to speak about such plans publicly for fear of inadvertently advertising the event.
Here is Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young with details of the new case.
Fuller:
Queensland’s new Covid-19 case is somewhat of a mystery.
NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant says it’s distressing to see how few people who are eligible for AstraZeneca are taking up the opportunity.
The man returned from China, fully vaccinated, and completed his mandatory quarantine period.
Chief health officer Kerry Chant has been very firm this morning that the main limiting factor of getting Pfizer doses in arms in Sydney is supply, not state vaccination capacity.
He later tested positive in Queensland after becoming unwell.
Kerry Chant has been asked if the plan is to remain in lockdown until the number of cases infectious in the community is zero or close to zero, or until 80% of the population of Greater Sydney is vaccinated. (Both prospects could be months away.)
Controversial MP Craig Kelly’s Twitter account has been placed in “read only” mode for seven days after he allegedly repeatedly breached policy to prevent the sharing of “misleading” Covid-19 information.
Chant:
Kelly posted on his Telegram account over the weekend about being unable to use Twitter so Guardian Australia tech reporter Josh Taylor contacted the company to find out what’s going on.
By the way, we are expecting to hear from Victoria and South Australia in about 15 minutes. I will do my best to bring you updates from all three events.
Here is Twitter’s statement:
Kerry Chant noted that a number of pharmacies will be able to administer AstraZeneca vaccines from today.
Queensland records one locally acquired case of Covid-19. I missed the start of the press conference so I will get back to you with details on that case.
Well... I guess I’ll bring you the updates on this later if there is any.
Why would you put your presser on at 11.15am of all times! The middle of presser-geddon!
The number of patients being admitted to hospital with severe liver injuries caused by herbal and dietary supplements claiming to promote muscle growth or weight loss is increasing, with some people harmed so severely they required a liver transplant.
A study led by Dr Emily Nash from the Royal Prince Alfred hospital examined hospital records of 184 adults admitted to the AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre with drug-induced liver injury between 2009 and 2020. She and her co-authors found liver injury cases linked to herbal and dietary supplements increased from two out of 11 patients (15%) during 2009–11, to 10 out of 19 patients (47%) during 2018–20.
Liver injury from overdose from paracetamol, a widely used medication to treat fever and pain, and antibiotics, is common, and the authors found 115 patients with paracetamol-related drug-induced liver injury during the study period. Of the 69 with non-paracetamol liver injury, 19 cases involved antibiotics, 15 involved herbal and dietary supplements, and the rest involved anti-tuberculosis or anti-cancer medications.
You can read the full report below:
Oh, if you want updates on day three of the Olympics by the way, look no further than the Guardian Toyko live blog!
It’s being run by the fantastic Tom Lutz who know far, far more about the games than me, who only just learnt handball was a sport yesterday.
Also speaking of press conferences, it looks like Steven Marshall will be standing up to update SA residents at 11am ACST, which is 11.30 AEST, on whether the state’s lockdown will end on Tuesday.
No surprises here but Gladys Berejiklian will be giving the NSW Covid-19 daily update at 11am.
Liberal ministers boasted that they had “secured” funding for commuter car parks, despite the infrastructure department later claiming they were election commitments.
Labor has seized on the social media posts of David Coleman, Michael Sukkar and the then urban infrastructure minister, Alan Tudge, to argue that spending had already been locked in as a decision of government before the campaign, rather than being contingent on Coalition victory.
The social media posts call into question the department’s defence of the program, that most of the projects were election commitments, which the finance minister, Simon Birmingham, has said meant “the Australian people had their chance” to judge it and had “voted the government back in”.
Labor is seeking to open a new inquiry into the $660m commuter car parks within the $4.8bn urban congestion fund, urging the joint committee of public accounts and audit to investigate, partly because Tudge is yet to explain his handling of the program.
