Australia COVID LIVE updates NSW records 1218 cases and six deaths as Victoria records 92 cases
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian acknowledged the pandemic was taking a toll on people’s mental health, as emergency department visits for self-harm and suicidal ideation are up 31 per cent for children and teenagers in NSW compared with last year. She said a 70 per cent first dose vaccination rate could offer further relief for those under harshest restrictions.
Victoria recorded 92 new cases, mainly in Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs. Just 19 were isolating for their full infectious period. The state will no longer be exiting lockdown in the coming week.
Premier Daniel Andrews said there was “still a chance†of driving case numbers down. He also said he did not want “thousands of extra doses†of vaccine flowing to NSW unfairly when there was need in other states, and that he had received that guarantee from the Prime Minister.
Queensland reported one local case who was already isolating at home, and authorities announced a new mass vaccination hub to open on Brisbane’s north within weeks.
New Zealand 83 new cases of COVID-19 in the community, all but one in Auckland. It marked the country’s worst day yet in the Delta outbreak. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has hinted that the already tough level 4 restrictions could get even stronger.
There were 13 new cases in the ACT, while 41.2 per cent of the population is now fully vaccinated.
I’m Natassia Chrysanthos signing off for the afternoon - my colleagues will keep you posted for the rest of the day.
There’s an unsettling quiet on Lackey Street, the main shopping strip at Summer Hill in Sydney’s inner west.
Half a dozen hairdressers and beauty salons are shuttered; sidewalk tables are stacked indoors; gift stores and boutiques have shifted online.
Lackey Street, Summer HillCredit:Photo: Steven Siewert
“I think most of us are struggling,†says Tess Robens, owner of the Rio Bar. “It’s harder than last year’s lockdown. People seem to have less money this time around.â€
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Six staff at Bathurst Correctional Centre in western NSW have tested positive to COVID-19 since Thursday.
Other staff and inmates at the prison who had contact with the six officers have been tested and are isolating.
The outbreak is not linked at this stage to the one at Parklea Correctional Centre in Sydney’s north-west, which sits at 12 cases.
Medical One Richmond and furniture company FurnX in Laverton North are the latest tier one entries to the Victorian exposure sites list.
The medical centre at Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre on Victoria Street, Richmond is listed as a tier one site for August 26 from 4.10pm to 5.10pm and a tier two site for anyone at the venue on August 23 from 12.10pm to 12.45pm.
FurnX on Leakes Road in Laverton North is listed as a tier one site for August 24 fo 8am to 4.30pm, August 25 from 8am to 4.30pm and August 26 from 8am to 4.30pm when a positive case attended the store.
Anyone who attended a tier one site must seek a COVID-19 test immediately and quarantine for 14 days while anyone who attended a tier two site must seek a COVID-19 test and isolate until receiving a negative result.
Click here for the updating list of exposure sites.
Senior government ministers will consider whether the state can safely ease some restrictions, including reopening playgrounds and allowing year 12 students back into the classroom, as Victoria braces for another prolonged lockdown.
State government sources, who spoke to The Age on the condition of anonymity to provide insights into high-level discussions, said ministers would consider which restrictions could be wound back as epidemiologists warn reaching zero cases in Victoria was increasingly unlikely.
Scenes from Melbourne lockdown, along the Yarra on Saturday morning.Credit:Eddie Jim
At the top of some government officials’ agendas are permitting children to use playgrounds, easing some restrictions in regional Victoria and allowing year 12 students back into the classroom.
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Lockdown 6.2 is hard on all of us. For me, it is only irksome, realising that I will have to cancel my planned holiday in Broome for a third time, cancelling coffee and meal catch-ups with friends, and spending most of my day in my home office.
For some though, it has meant loss of employment, closure of their businesses, exacerbation of mental illness, more exposure to domestic violence, and initiation into drugs or increased alcohol intake as coping mechanisms.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.Credit:Simon Schluter
It is no wonder that some â€" even apparently some in the Victorian cabinet â€" are heeding the siren call for an early end to lockdowns at a time when just over half the total population is vaccinated, or 70 per cent of the adult population as the national plan phrases the phase B threshold.
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A man from Sydney’s south-west has shared the challenges of caring for his family members who have COVID-19.
Hussein Taha has the virus, as does his wife and young son.
Hussein Taha shares the challenges of caring for family members with COVID-19.Credit:Nine News
“She’s struggling to breathe,†he told Nine News.
“I [almost] reached death many times.“
Mr Taha said his sister is in ICU and her husband and son also have the virus.
“I don’t want to see my wife struggle, I don’t want to see my sister struggle, I don’t want to see my son struggle,†he said.
“I’m by myself, it’s very hard.“
He thinks his family contracted the virus from a couple he claims were infectious for several days without disclosing their condition.
An Echuca aged care community has been added to the Victorian exposure sites list as a tier one location for all staff and visitors from August 13-26.
Anyone who worked at or visited the Echuca Community for the Aged - Wharparilla Lodge at 21 Hartshorn Drive between August 13 at 9am on August 26 at 6pm needs to immediately get a COVID-19 test and quarantine for 14 days.
McDonalds Oakleigh South, Coles Spencer St at Docklands, Woolworths St Kilda, Chemist Warehouse, Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre and ChemMart Pharmacy in Melton are among a number of shops added to the list as tier two sites for various dates.
Tier two exposure sites require anyone who attended the venue at the stated times to immediately seek out a COVID-19 test and isolate until receiving a negative test result.
Click here for the updating list of exposure sites.
If you’re in a dilemma about dobbing in a friend who attended an anti-lockdown protest, or wondering whether to prioritise home-schooling over work, this free hotline may be of help.
But don’t expect them to tell you what to do. The 20 volunteer counsellors who answer The Ethics Centre’s Ethi-call helpline do not give advice, says director Michelle Bloom. Instead, they ask questions that 92 per cent of callers said assisted them to find a better way to think about an issue, and made 90 per cent feel better.
“It is so empowering,†said Ms Bloom. “I really love our absolute assumption and belief that the best answer and advice sits in the person themselves.â€
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UPDATED: A number of inner Melbourne shops have been added to Victoria’s exposure sites list as tier-two entries this evening including sites in St Kilda and Sunshine.
7-Eleven St Kilda has several entries where a case or cases have made short visits to the store on August 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 while Woolworths in St Kilda and Sunshine has also been added, both on August 23.
Woolworths Fisherman’s Bend, based in Port Melbourne, has also been added on August 25 from 10.30am to 11.20am and 5.40pm to 7.10pm, August 27 6.45am to 7.25am.
The Dusty Fox at 477 Plummer Street, Port Melbourne has also been added for August 25 from 12am to 11.59pm.
Those Port Melbourne sites are also tier-two sites.
Tier two exposure sites require anyone who attended the venue at the stated times to immediately seek out a COVID-19 test and isolate until receiving a negative test result.
Click here for the updating list of exposure sites.
Earlier we reported there were 31 positive COVID-19 cases among inmates at a prison in Sydney’s north-west.
However it appears there was a mix-up.
Parklea Correctional Centre.Credit:Janie Barrett
Yesterday the private operator of Parklea Correctional Centre, MTC-Broadspectrum, said there were 12 cases among prisoners in the same wing of the jail.
This morning NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty said there were now 31 cases linked to the prison, which was interpreted as 19 additional cases on top of yesterday’s 12 cases.
But Corrective Services NSW and MTC-Broadspectrum clarified that the outbreak remains at 12 cases, and 31 is the total number of cases recorded at the jail in the past month.
The difference of 19 is the cumulative number of cases that have tested positive during their 14-day isolation when entering the prison.
In effect, those 19 cases are like hotel quarantine cases (lower risk), whereas the 12 cases reported yesterday are akin to community transmission (higher risk).
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