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Australia Covid live update: Victoria premier Dan Andrews eases lockdown after 10 new cases; Gladys Berejiklian to give NSW update Australia Covid live update: Victoria premier Dan Andrews eases lockdown after 10 new cases; Gladys Berejiklian confirms 172 local cases in NSW
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South Australian press conference:
Premier Steven Marshall has confirmed the state will come out of a week-long lockdown tonight.
But he has warned some restrictions will remain as the state ensures it has quashed an outbreak of the Delta variant.
NSW press conference:
NSW Health’s Jeremy McAnulty has confirmed the woman in her 80s who died at home in Pendle Hill has attended an unauthorised family gathering of 50 people which has seen significant spread of the virus across households.
It’s understood the family had gathered to grieve together.
NSW press conference.
Reporter:
McAnulty:
Victorian press conference:
Premier Daniel Andrews confirms he did not tell NSW counterpart Gladys Berejiklian he would be hardening the border.
Andrews said he did not want to have to make the decision to harden the border, but that his concerns expressed last week and at national cabinet were not addressed.
Chief health officer Brett Sutton is also elaborating on the decision to harden the NSW border.
NSW press conference:
One of the main areas of concern in NSW today is the Campsie shopping centre, with a vast quarantine order on all those who have shopped there over an 11-day period.
NSW Health is calling on anyone who was there at any time between 14 and 24 July to get tested immediately and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Berejiklian has been grilled over how this situation can occur:
Reporter:
Berejiklian:
McAnulty:
NSW press conference:
Here are the NSW hospitalisation numbers for today from NSW Health.
NSW press conference:
Berejiklian has been asked if the movement of the virus into western Sydney means lockdown rules should tighten there.
Berejiklian has flagged there will be announcements, possibly as early as tomorrow.
Victorian press conference:
Covid-19 commander Jeroen Weimar is giving a breakdown of the cases. There are 188 active cases in Victoria.
Seven people are in hospital, two in intensive care, one who is ventilated.
Of the 10 new cases recorded today: three linked to AAMI Park, two to Ms Frankies, two to Trinity Grammar, and single cases linked to St Patrick’s, City of Hume, and Young and Jackson’s.
Weimar is warning that the state is still at a “critical stage”, as thousands of people are still to record a day 13 test in isolation. Several of today’s cases had tested negative but recorded positive day 13 tests.
The NSW premier has confirmed the epicentre of the greater Sydney has shifted from the south-west to the west.
Berejiklian:
Berejiklian has indicated there may be an announcement later today lifting the lockdown for several towns in central west regional NSW.
Victorian press conference:
Premier Daniel Andrews has had this to say about those tougher NSW border measures:
NSW press conference:
Berejiklian has confirmed the deaths of two women in their 80s, these were the deaths that were previously reported yesterday.
Victoria press conference:
Premier Daniel Andrews has also announced harder border restrictions with New South Wales.
He says residents of the NSW local government areas of Wagga Wagga, Hay, Lockhart and Murrumbidgee will no longer be in the border bubble and will have to apply for a permit if they wish to travel to Victoria.
Andrews says the new restrictions will be in place for two weeks.
NSW press conference:
Once again I mention that that “infectious in the community” number that Berejiklian reads out is always the lower end of the spectrum.
Here are the stats from NSW Health:
So that is at least 79 in the community while infectious.
Gladys Berejiklian has announced the state’s highest-ever daily number of cases, with 172 people testing positive overnight.
At least 60 of those cases were active in the community for their entire infectious period.
Andrews:Andrews:
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has announced an end to the state’s hard lockdown.Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has announced an end to the state’s hard lockdown.
Stay at home orders and the 5km travel limit will lift from midnight tonight but guests to the home are still banned and strict density limits will apply in the newly opened hospitality and retail sectors.Stay at home orders and the 5km travel limit will lift from midnight tonight but guests to the home are still banned and strict density limits will apply in the newly opened hospitality and retail sectors.
School will also open for all year levels from tomorrow.School will also open for all year levels from tomorrow.
Andrews:Andrews:
Come on, Andrews! Don’t leave us in suspense here!Come on, Andrews! Don’t leave us in suspense here!
OK, we are just standing by to hear from Victorian premier Daniel Andrews who is expected to announce the easing of the state’s 12-day hard lockdown.
Big coffee sips for more inexplicable graphic design choices from Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Someone take her Canva premium account off her in hotel quarantine! For the sake of the nation!
OK, well this is a little different, 10.45am AEST for the Victorian press conference.
Supermarket workers in south-west Sydney will soon have priority access to the Pfizer vaccine via pop-up clinics and appointments at the Sydney Olympic Park mass vaccination hub.
The announcement comes after the New South Wales chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, said it was crucial to vaccinate essential workers in the area because they kept the city functioning.
“We are very keen to provide access to those critical workers that are required to keep Sydney running,” she said.
“They do a lot of the work in distribution centres, food, logistics, transport.
“At this point in time, vaccinations are not the whole answer, and we need to maintain the lockdown as tight as possible.”
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And the Victorian Liberals are being the Victorian Liberals again.
D’ath also said Queensland would wait and see what the announcements are out of South Australia and Victoria today before making any decisions when it comes to border restrictions.
Queensland health minister Yvette D’ath says that it’s likely the virus has spread through the air in hotel quarantine, and this is how the man who recently returned from China was infected.
However, Young says she is still worried that a Covid-19 positive man who travelled from NSW to Queensland, despite allegedly being aware he was a close contact and require to isolate, might have spread the Delta variant into the state.