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| Australia Covid updates live: NSW records 1,035 cases, Melbourne protesters arrested; Victoria records 628 cases and three deaths | |
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| Follow all the day’s news | Follow all the day’s news |
| Looks like we will be getting the Victorian Covid-19 update at 11.45am AEST. | |
| NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian says it’s an “absolute fact” that case numbers will rise when the state opens up at 70% vaccination, leading to increased pressure on the hospital and ICU system. | |
| She urges people to get vaccinated. | |
| Queensland could move to home quarantine for fully vaccinated people, but it will keep building a mass quarantine facility near Toowoomba, reports AAP’s Marty Silk. | |
| Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has admitted that mandatory hotel quarantine is “tough” after the state’s human rights commissioner, Scott McDougall, raised concerns about a “blanket approach” to people seeking exemptions to quarantine at home. | |
| She suggested that Queensland could allow more people to quarantine at home once vaccination coverage is high enough in the state. | |
| Palaszczuk said the quarantine facility being built at Wellcamp, near Toowoomba, would still be required for international travellers, particularly students from overseas. | |
| The president of the NSW branch of the Australian Medical, Dr Danielle McMullen, said planning for outdoor sporting events should not take precedence over the reopening of elective surgery. | |
| Bureau of Health Information figures from the last quarter (April to June) show that the median wait time for non-urgent surgery was 256 days – 10 days longer than the pre-Covid period – April to June 2019. | |
| There were 85,296 people on the waiting list at the end of the quarter – of those, 2,108 had waited longer than the clinically recommended timeframe. Almost all (83,271 of those people on the waiting list) were in the semi-urgent and non-urgent category. | |
| Here are the details of that five Covid-19 deaths from NSW Health: | |
| Unfortunately, the gradient isn’t as forgiving on the Victorian graph. | |
| We are really starting to see that rolling case number average heading down on the NSW graph, by the wonderful Josh Nicholas. | |
| There seems to be a small group of protesters walking through the streets of Melbourne. It looks to be around 100 people potentially, significantly smaller than yesterday. | |
| Berejiklian: | |
| The NSW premier is speaking now and has confirmed the state has recorded 1,035 local Covid-19 cases. | |
| Sadly five people infected with Covid-19 have also died. | |
| We should be hearing from the premier at today’s NSW press conference by the way. | |
| We are just standing by now for the NSW daily press conference where we will learn the daily case numbers. | |
| It looks the main protest group is starting to form, and according to reports from the Melbourne CBD are heading towards the police line. | It looks the main protest group is starting to form, and according to reports from the Melbourne CBD are heading towards the police line. |