Australia news LIVE Medical regulator considers COVID-19 rapid antigen testing in workplaces homes ACT lockdown extended as infections rise in NSW Victoria
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Lawyers for Australia’s medical regulator have written to former Liberal MP Craig Kelly demanding the United Australia Party and Mr Kelly stop distributing misleading information on COVID-19 vaccines.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration lawyers also allege the United Australia Party leader breached copyright by taking select extracts from the regulator’s adverse event notifications database, which were then distributed to the public through text messages.
United Australia Party MP Craig Kelly has distributed misleading information on COVID-19 vaccines, the TGA says.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
“Lawyers for the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have written to United Australia Party leader, Mr Craig Kelly MP, alleging it has breached copyright and demanding that it stop distributing incomplete extracts of adverse event reports relating to COVID-19 vaccines which the TGA believes could be seriously misleading,†the medical regulator said in a statement.
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A case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the Lismore area this afternoon, the Northern NSW Local Health District has announced.
“Investigations into the source of the case are continuing,†it said in a statement.
“Known contacts of the case are being contacted to get tested immediately and self-isolate.â€
The person attended a school in Goonellabah on Monday, September 13. Health and education officials are working to advise parents and students and the school will be closed from tomorrow, Thursday, September 16.
Lismore was one of the regional NSW local government areas to come out of lockdown at 12.01am on Saturday.
It is also one of the LGAs in the border bubble with Queensland. Northern border residents have been able to cross into the Sunshine State for essential work and essential reasons since the bubble was reinstated at 1am on Monday.
Yass Valley Council LGA, in the NSW Southern Tablelands, was placed back under stay-at-home restrictions on Tuesday for two weeks after a positive case was confirmed in the area.
The curfew for the 12 local government areas of concern in Sydney’s west and south west has officially been omitted from the public health order.
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard at 1.27pm this afternoon signed off an amendment to the Public Health (COVID-19 Additional Restrictions for Delta Outbreak) Order (No 2) 2021, putting a line through the curfew from 9pm to 5am.
Parramatta is among the local government areas where the curfew has lifted. Credit:Wolter Peeters
An explanatory note states: “The object of this Order is to remove the curfew currently in place in areas of concern.â€
A statement from Mr Hazzard’s office confirmed the curfew had lifted for the local government areas of Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, Strathfield, and the Penrith suburbs of Caddens, Claremont Meadows, Colyton, Erskine Park, Kemps Creek, Kingswood, Mount Vernon, North St Marys, Orchard Hills, Oxley Park, St Clair and St Marys.
“This is a whole-of-government decision based on the advice of our health and police experts,†Mr Hazzard said in the statement.
“While the NSW community has achieved this fantastic milestone, it is critical that we do not let our guard down.
“We continue to ask the community to follow the stay-at-home rules, limit their movement and do all they can to keep everyone safe.
“High rates of testing are critical to detecting transmission and preventing further spread of COVID-19 in the community.â€
According to the federal government vaccination figures released this afternoon, 80.07 per cent of the NSW population aged 16 and over has received one COVID-19 vaccine dose while 48.53 per cent are fully vaccinated.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton says more than 2000 police will patrol Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday, making it one of the biggest operations in decades.
“This will be one of our largest operations we’ve conducted I think since the World Economic Forum many years ago,†he said.
“This is a significant operation … this is the biggest game in town for us to stop this occur.â€
Protesters were sprayed with capsicum spray during Melbourne’s anti-lockdown rally in August. Credit:Justin McManus
In August, six police officers were hospitalised and more than 200 people were arrested during anti-lockdown protests that brought chaos to Melbourne’s CBD.
At the time, the Victorian government derided the protests as a “slap in the faceâ€, with police claiming more than 4000 people turned up in contravention of the state’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Mr Patton said tracking protester movements could sometimes be challenging because organisers used encrypted messaging services to coordinate their movements.
“It’s made very difficult through encrypted applications used by the organisers,†he said.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton says protesters planning on attending Saturday’s freedom rally in Melbourne’s CBD will be met with a police presence willing to arrest and fine people who are not complying with COVID-19 directions.
Mr Patton also said the public transport network would be temporarily suspended, from 8am to 2pm, to prevent people travelling into the city.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton.Credit:Paul Jeffers
“It is an illegal gathering, and we’ll be doing everything we can to prevent that gathering,†he said.
“If people do get to make it into the CBD for that gathering, we will be enforcing that anyone who makes it enable will be subject to a $5500 fine.â€
Police clashed with violent protesters in August, when officers used capsicum spray in an attempt to quell non-compliance with COVID-19 directions.
“For those who do get through, we will have significant police numbers in here to make sure that we are dealing with them that we are holding them to account, and we will arrest those people and issuing for instance where we can,†he said.
“We saw certainly in the last demonstration there was significant levels of violence - that is a concern to me as well here. We will make sure we are prepared to deal with that.
“It’s really interesting that this whole cohort of people who are about freedom don’t and seem to respect the freedoms of others.â€
Mr Patton said police did not take the decision to close public transport lightly.
“We did not take this lightly, we did not do it last time,†he said.
“But given the circumstances of where we are with the spread of the Delta variant with COVID … we can’t afford to allow the transmission of the virus.
“We will do everything Victoria Police can to support the Chief Health Officer in the directions.â€
December 18 is set to be a big day for travel from Australia, with Qantas planning to resume six international routes on that date, with a further five the next day.
Qantas plans to restart flights to several of its most popular destinations, based on the belief that the federal government will relax border restrictions before Christmas.
Qantas will resume six international flight routes on December 18. Credit:James Brickwood
Flights to the UK, the US, Japan and Singapore are all on the cards.
The full list of routes for December are:
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Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton gave an update from 3.30pm AEST about planned anti-lockdown protests that are expected to be held this weekend.
You can watch a playback clip of the update below.
Victorian health authorities have identified a number of new COVID-19 exposure sites, including childcare centres and a mall playground.
Kool Kidz Childcare at Coolaroo in Melbourne’s north was declared a tier-1 or close contact exposure site on Thursday, September 9 between 8.15am and 4.45pm, while Clarendon College Early Learning Centre in the regional city of Ballarat was declared tier 1 on Friday, September 10 between 8.15am and 9am.
Hektik Automotive Group at Tullamarine in Melbourne’s north-west was declared a tier-1 site on Thursday, September 9, between 8am and 5pm, and on Friday, September 10, between 8.30am and 5pm.
Anyone who attended those venues during those time frames has to immediately get tested for COVID-19 and quarantine for 14 days from the exposure, regardless of whether they receive a negative test result.
The remainder of new sites are tier 2, although authorities warned there would be some close contacts at the restaurant Who is Bunker Spreckels at Elwood in Melbourne’s south, Woolworths at Highett Shopping Centre in the city’s south-east, and Technical Advanced Training at Broadmeadows, in the north.
A playground at Bridge Mall in Ballarat Central was declared a tier-2 exposure site on Friday, September 10 between 3.50pm and 5.30pm.
A full list of Victorian exposure sites can be found here.
As we reported earlier, the curfew in Sydney’s 12 local government areas of concern will lift tonight, following a recommendation from health authorities and police.
But Premier Gladys Berejiklian said during Wednesday morning’s COVID-19 press conference it was “too risky†to ease other coronavirus restrictions in these areas, such as the authorised worker list and the two-hour cap on outdoor recreation for the fully vaccinated.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at Wednesday’s COVID-19 press conference. Credit:Janie Barrett
“The best advice we have is that it’s too early and too risky to do anything further today,†she said, adding that lifting the curfew was a “token of our appreciation†for the state hitting 80 per cent first-dose vaccination for people aged 16 and over â€" largely off the back of very high rates of vaccination in those areas.
“Please remember that we have roughly 2.2 million people in those areas of concern. Even having 20 per cent of them not vaccinated is about 400,000 people; that’s a lot of people,†the Premier said.
In regional NSW, there were 46 cases in Illawarra-Shoalhaven, 27 in the Hunter, 11 on the Central Coast, 10 in far west NSW, six in western NSW, seven in southern NSW and two in the Murrumbidgee district.
Earlier in the press conference, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said virus fragments had been detected in sewage at Young in the state’s south, which resulted in the identification of a person who spent time in that community while infectious.
The LGAs of concern are: Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta and Strathfield.
Penrith is also an LGA of concern in the following suburbs: Caddens, Claremont Meadows, Colyton, Erskine Park, Kemps Creek, Kingswood, Mount Vernon, North St Marys, Orchard Hills, Oxley Park, St Clair and St Marys.
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