Australia COVID LIVE updates PM challenges states to open by Christmas Berejiklian says NSW residents should book summer holidays
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Melburnians will be allowed to enjoy new freedoms including playing golf or tennis and roaming up to 15 kilometres from home as Victoria takes another step to reopening large areas of public life.
On Sunday, Industry Recovery Minister Martin Pakula said COVID-19 vaccine passports might be trialled at the Melbourne Cup to allow crowds to return to the spring carnival, as well as other ticketed events in country Victoria and metropolitan suburbs.
Regional hospitality, hairdressing and tourism businesses in six local government areas will be part of a two-week trial in October to determine how vaccine passports could be rolled out across the state, with the Premier indicating COVID-19 jabs would probably be mandated for those sectors.
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Councils and NSW Health have defended the decision to allow unvaccinated people to access outdoor pools when they reopen on Monday, amid community concerns about the spread of COVID-19.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Sunday the government would this week release its road map for easing restrictions once 80 per cent of the state is fully vaccinated. Greater freedoms are expected in coming weeks, including for sporting events, regional travel, restaurants, pubs and other venues.
Granville Swimming Centre will reopen on Monday. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
The state is expected to reach a 60 per cent double-dose vaccination rate in the next 24 hours.
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Melburnians will be allowed to enjoy new freedoms including playing golf or tennis and roaming up to 15 kilometres from home as Victoria takes another step to reopening large areas of public life.
On Sunday, Industry Recovery Minister Martin Pakula said COVID-19 vaccine passports might be trialled at the Melbourne Cup to allow crowds to return to the spring carnival, as well as other ticketed events in country Victoria and metropolitan suburbs.
Regional hospitality, hairdressing and tourism businesses in six local government areas will be part of a two-week trial in October to determine how vaccine passports could be rolled out across the state, with the Premier indicating COVID-19 jabs would probably be mandated for those sectors.
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Lockdowns are a marathon not a sprint, as Melburnians well know. After more than 235 days stuck inside and at least another month to come, the city’s endurance is being tested.
The finish line is in sight, with early November the most likely point that Victoria hits its goal of 80 per cent fully vaccinated. But for many of us there’s an overwhelming feeling of “so near, yet so farâ€.
Cedric Dubler giving Ash Moloney the encouragement he needed in the last event of the decathlon at the Tokyo Olympics.Credit:Getty Images
For those who like to run, it’s the part where your lungs are burning and your mind is begging you to stop. So how do we keep going?
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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.
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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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