Australia COVID LIVE updates PM challenges states to open by Christmas Berejiklian says NSW residents should book summer holidays
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Clothing store Wodonga Rivers has been listed as a tier one exposure site after a positive case attended the store on September 23 from 2pm to 5pm.
Anyone who was at the store during those times needs to seek an immediate COVID-19 test and quarantine for 14 days.
Wodonga Plaza has also been listed as a tier two site for the same date and time. Anyone who attended the plaza at that time should seek a COVID-19 and isolate until receiving a negative result.
Cragieburn McDonalds in Melbourne’s north has also been listed as a tier two site with some potential tier one contacts after a positive case attended the restaurant.
The store is listed for September 18 7am to 2.30pm, September 19 7am to 3.30pm, September 20 from 5am to 9pm and September 21 from 12pm to 11.59pm.
Taylors Hill Coles in Melbourne’s north-west has been listed as a tier two site with some tier one contacts after a positive case attended the store on September 19 from 4pm to 9.30pm and September 20 from 5pm to 10.30pm.
Traralgon Cotton On is also listed as a tier two site for September 21 from 9.45am to 11.30am.
Click here to see Victoria’s exposure sites list.
Perth’s hold on a men’s Ashes Test is getting shakier by the day despite the city playing host to a glittering grand finale to the AFL season, as Cricket Western Australia makes a despairing bid for a reshuffle of venues for the series against England.
Cricket Australia is not publicly countenancing any change to the published schedule for the Ashes, meaning Perth still stands as host for the fifth and final match of the series â€" after the Boxing Day and New Year’s swing through Melbourne and Sydney.
Perth’s men’s Ashes Test is “under real threat†according to the Cricket WA chief executive Christina Matthews.Credit:Getty Images
This sequence, as publicly acknowledged by the Cricket WA chief executive Christina Matthews, runs headlong into the WA government’s insistence that the border will remain closed to states managing COVID-19 until well into next year.
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Health workers have warned anti-vaccine troublemakers they are having little impact on bookings at clinics.
Workers at an Altona surge clinic told Nine News Melbourne they are using a waiting list and are cautious drawing doses after as many as 50 no-show bookings per day proved to be from anti-vaccine troublemakers.
“It’s frustrating but what they don’t realise is we check for double-bookings every day,†the clinic coordinator told Nine News Melbourne.
Victoria Police has charged two Box Hill North residents over an alleged assault on two women in front of their children in a Blackburn North park last Thursday.
Whitehorse crime investigation unit detectives charged a 35-year-old woman with two counts of unlawful assault and one count of affray. A 44-year-old man was charged with two counts of wilfully urging a dog to attack and one count of affray.
The charges came as a second anti-lockdown protester was revealed to have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending rallies while infectious last week and as demonstrators went mostly quiet after a week of noise and fury.
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Victoria’s Greater Geelong Shire will be able to exit lockdown from 11.59pm tonight, but Mitchell Shire will not be exiting lockdown due to its proximity to areas with large COVID-19 case loads.
Health officials announced on Saturday that the Surf Coast Shire would also be exiting lockdown at 11.59pm on Sunday.
Deputy Chief Health Officer Deb Friedman said in previous times, areas like Geelong and the Surf Coast would stay in lockdown until they reached zero, “but that’s no longer in line with our management of this virus, under the national planâ€.
“Unfortunately, we’re not in a position to give the same news to the people of Mitchell Shire,†she said.
“Mitchell Shire being directly adjacent to some of the local government areas that have the highest rates of COVID anywhere in Australia is perennially vulnerable to these incursions from the suburbs that they are adjacent to, and that’s what we’re seeing regularly pretty much on a daily basis.â€
Professor Friedman said one person who died overnight was in their 70s, while another was in their 80s, and neither was vaccinated despite being eligible for a significant amount of time.
“That’s not to make any sort of statement, it’s just a plea for me as a public health official, as a physician, but also as a human being, and a daughter: please get vaccinated,†she told a press conference on Sunday.
“If your elderly parents are yet to get the vaccine please recognise that they are especially vulnerable.â€
The head of nursing at Melbourne University has warned that the pandemic is leaving Victorian nursing staff too overworked and burnt out to contemplate the further study required to become a qualified intensive care nurse.
Teams working in intensive care units in Victorian hospitals are also too stretched to support postgraduate students on placement, despite the extra demand for qualified intensive care nurses, the director of postgraduate studies in nursing at Deakin University says.
An ICU nurse and an anaesthetist attend to a COVID-infected patient inside the ICU ward of Western Health’s Footscray Hospital last year. Credit:Penny Stephens
Professor Marie Gerdtz, the head of the Department of Nursing at the University of Melbourne, said the COVID-19 pandemic was having an impact on the capacity of nurses to take up the further study required to work in critical and intensive care.
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A hush came over the crowd as the boy teed off at the 14th hole, par unknown, in Oakover Road, Preston.
He cracked his putter and the ball flew up a ramp and into a tunnel, travelling into a papier mache cow, rolling to the hole via the bovine’s bum.
Hole 14 - dubbed Holey Cow - of the Royal Prestbury mini golf tournament.Credit:Eddie Jim
Welcome to the Royal Prestbury Open Classic, a COVID-safe, 20-hole mini golf tournament created to combat lockdown blues and brighten the day.
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Channel Nine’s sex and romance reality show Love Island will launch a week later than planned as a result of the fallout from the I’m a Celebrity COVID breach that sent the Northern Rivers region of NSW into a snap seven-day shutdown last week.
Originally slated to debut on October 4, the show will now launch on October 11. Nine has not revealed how long it will run but it is expected to be similar to the most recent season of 29 episodes in 2019.
Stay classy, Straya: Promotional material for Love Island Australia, featuring Sophie Monk as a mermaid. Credit:Nine
Though disruptive, a week’s delay counts as a great outcome given the past week’s events, which had threatened to derail the show entirely and throw Nine’s schedule into disarray.
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Full V/Line train services will operate services on all lines from Monday after a COVID-19 outbreak at Southern Cross forced scores of staff into isolation.
The statewide train service will have Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Gippsland and Seymour lines all operating as scheduled while buses will replace trains between Bendigo and Echuca due to upgrade works until October 31.
Southern Cross station in Melbourne.Credit:Darrian Traynor
V/Line said in a message announcing the services that it was sorry for the line disruptions in recent weeks.
“We apologise to passengers who were making permitted journeys over the last two weeks for the disruption to their journey and thank them for their continued patience and understanding while we worked to return train services across the network as quickly and safely as possible,†the statement said.
More information can be found at vline.com.au or by calling 1800 800 007.
The Prime Minister has challenged state and territory leaders to commit to reopening borders before Christmas, once 80 per cent of the eligible population aged 16 and over has been fully vaccinated.
Scott Morrison reiterated the public health measures that have kept the nation safe but separated during the pandemic had a use-by date on them.
The federal government wants to see internal border closures dumped at 80 per cent fully vaccinated, so families can reunite over the holidays.Credit:Paul Jeffers
“Once you get to 80 per cent of your population that’s vaccinated, well, it’s very clear. I can’t see any reason why Australians should be kept from each other,†Mr Morrison said in an interview with Channel Seven.
“My message is more to Australians that what I’d like them to have for Christmas is their lives back. And that’s within the gift of governments. And that’s a gift I’d like to see us give them.â€
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