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Australia Covid live update: Victoria eases lockdown after 10 new cases; NSW records 172 local coronavirus cases | |
(32 minutes later) | |
Follow all the day’s news | Follow all the day’s news |
Wozzahs! That was a full-on couple of hours! | |
After that, I’m off to go stare blankly into the middle distance but don’t worry because the brilliant Naaman Zhou is here to take the baton. | |
See you tomorrow! | |
A German-based conspiracy group helped to drive a series of anti-lockdown protests across Australia which saw dozens of people arrested and hundreds fined after violent clashes with police. | |
Police arrested more than 60 people and fined 107 more after a crowd of about 3,000 gathered in Sydney on Saturday to protest against the city’s lockdown. | |
Coordinated by a loose network of conspiracy-laced groups, including some with links to the far right, rallies took place in cities across Australia and the globe, with violent clashes between demonstrators and police in Sydney. | |
Protests against Covid restrictions have become common throughout the pandemic. While billed as peaceful protests, police said they were surprised by “the level of violence that people were prepared to use”. | |
You can read the full, and fascinating, article by Christopher Knaus and Michael McGowan below. | |
Victorian press conference: | Victorian press conference: |
Here is that amazing Olympic F-bomb in all its glory. | |
Want a full rundown of Kaylee McKeown’s amazing backstroke win at the Tokyo games? | |
Well look no further than the fantastic Kieran Pender’s coverage down below: | |
I think it’s worth noting that NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has been going pretty hard on the “you could be responsible for the deaths of your loved one” line today. | |
Here is what she had to say when asked if the government has been doing enough to get the Covid-19 message through to greater Sydney residents. | |
I mentioned this lockdown apartment complex in Blacktown earlier this morning. Here is what NSW Health’s Jeremy McAnulty had to say about the situation. | |
Now, through my own sleuthing I understand that the conditions in the Blacktown apartment building are the same as those that were imposed on the Bondi Junction block earlier in the outbreaks. | |
Here is NSW Health’s official statement: | |
Dr Roger Lord, a specialist advisor to the Therapeutic Goods Administration on infectious diseases, has spoken to the Australian Science Media Centre about why fully vaccinated people are still catching Covid-19. Lord says: | |
Additionally, no correlates of protection [the level of antibody concentration and/or T cell activation required for protection] currently exist to indicate what concentration is required to indicate long-term protection, whether this was achieved in a given individual or how long this will last. Vaccination itself does not equal immunisation. | |
Associate professor Paul Griffin, director of infectious diseases at Mater Health Services in Queensland, said breakthrough infections should not be seen as taking away from the benefits of vaccines. | |
So all the press conferences have finished, but ABC’s main channel is playing the NSW press conference, which means so I can double back and bring you some more substantial quotes from the NSW leadership. | |
Hazzah! | |
Victorian press conference: | Victorian press conference: |
Premier Daniel Andrews is just winding up the press conference in Melbourne. Right towards the end he is asked about the federal government’s CovidSafe contact tracing app and whether it has picked up any cases in Victoria. | |
He says: | |
Andrews is then asked whether he thinks it is worth people still using it. | |
He gives a wry smile: | |