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Australia Covid live news update: NSW records 863 cases, seven deaths; Victoria 867 cases, four deaths; Byron and Tweed lockdown to end | |
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Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the extra cases had been notified. | |
“That software problem has been rectified by our partners in the pathology contracting area, and this, fortunately, did not have an impact on either the people concerned getting the test results,” he said. | |
Health deputy secretary Kate Matson said more than 50 per cent of Tuesday cases are in the northern suburbs, including 270 in Hume, 125 in Whittlesea, 88 in Moreland, 43 in Karrabin, and 24 in Dunmore. | |
There are currently 375 people in hospital in Victoria being treated for COVID-19 and of those, 81 are in intensive care and 61 are on a ventilator. | |
The Australian Capital Territory has recorded 13 new locally acquired cases today: | |
Victoria has overtaken New South Wales in daily case numbers, recording its highest total since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. | |
On Tuesday Victoria recorded 867 new, locally acquired cases and four deaths. | |
A software malfunction at the weekend in Victoria meant 149 cases were not counted in the overall numbers. | |
This included 140 cases that have now been added to Monday’s case numbers. The additional cases mean Victoria, which recorded 845 cases on Monday, surpassed NSW, which had 787, for the first time during this outbreak. | |
Brad Hazzard also confirmed at his presser that some regional areas could also be issued stay-at-home orders. | |
He has explained that essentially there is a bit of a crossover occurring, wherein some unvaccinated people in regional LGAs may be going into lockdown after 11 October, when the unvaccinated face restrictions across the state. | |
That would come after these areas have few restrictions, resulting in a backwards step for them. | |
Hazzard just puts it down to the pandemic itself: | |
NSW health minister Brad Hazzard and police commissioner Mick Fuller appear to be at odds over who will be enforcing public health orders restricting access to businesses and venues for unvaccinated residents. NSW is preparing to make a series of public health orders imposing continued restrictions for unvaccinated Australians, though it has signalled they will largely be eased from 1 December. | |
The plan has raised the prospect of business and venue owners enforcing restricted entry on unvaccinated patrons. Earlier Fuller said his officers won’t be checking the vaccination status of those out in public from 11 October. But Hazzard has just contradicted that position. Hazzard said he had not seen Fuller’s comments but said breaching a public health order is a crime, making police responsible for enforcement: | |
Hazzard said it was not proposed that business owners would be fined if they allowed unvaccinated people into their premises. When asked why a business owner would bother having a fight with an unvaccinated customer if they would face no punishment, he said the media was “obsessing” over “minutiae”. | |
On that note, Brad Hazzard is asked about regional areas where access to the vaccine has not been as good as many areas in metropolitan Sydney, and he said he had some “sympathy” for the view: | |
Brad Hazzard is asked again about what he thinks of the commentary surrounding the freedoms unvaccinated people will have in NSW in December, and he gave a typically Hazzardesque answer: | |
We are also on standby for the Covid update from Victoria, due in two minutes. | |
Brad Hazzard is asked about hospitals and the rising number of people being infected at them: | |
Brad Hazzard has also revealed that lifesaving breast screening services run by BreastScreen NSW will resume soon. | |
Services were cut back due to the Delta outbreak but BreastScreen NSW director Sarah McGill said they would on a case-by-case basis, based on an assessment of risk: | |