Australia news LIVE One million Moderna doses coming as outbreak accelerates in Victoria
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Victoria’s COVID-19 outbreak continues to target younger people with 85 per cent of all active cases under 50 years old.
The chief health officer’s daily update stated that figure on Sunday while around 16,000 people are in isolation due to being a close contact of a confirmed case while more than 1000 exposure sites have been listed on the state’s list.
The age range for Victoria’s active cases is:
454 are aged between 0 and 9
509 are aged between 10 and 19
755 are aged between 20 and 29
550 are aged between 30 and 39
The state added several new places to the exposure site list on Sunday afternoon as tier one sites including Little Learners in Gordons Road, South Morang on September 7 and September 8 from 10am to 4pm, Chemist Warehouse at Watergardens Shopping Centre on September 7 from 4.45pm to 9.30pm and AGCAB Portable Cabins in Campbellfield on September 8 (6am to 3pm), 9 (6am to 3pm) and 10 (6am to 12.30pm).
You can find the updating list of exposure sites here.
When Julie Bishop was foreign minister she committed Australia to the New Colombo Plan, a bold push to get more young Australians out of their comfort zones and into learning opportunities across the Asia-Pacific region.
The growth in numbers was impressive. In 2014, 8437 Australian students pursued learning abroad in the Asia-Pacific region. By 2019, that number had almost doubled to 15,440.
Julie Bishop at the United Nations headquarters in 2015.Credit:AP
Then, in March last year, as Australia’s global connections began to wither, student exchange came to a grinding halt. The New Colombo Plan, Westpac’s Asian Exchange and high school programs such as Rotary and AFS all needed to make dramatic adjustments.
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West Australian children aged 12-15 will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 from tomorrow.
Guardians and parents of children in the age group from Monday can register their dependents under their own vaccination account and book them an appointment at a state-run clinic.
WA Premier Mark McGowan.Credit:Hamish Hastie
Premier Mark McGowan on Sunday said about 58 per cent of West Australians had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine but that number needed to increase.
Health Minister Roger Cook said parents and guardians would also have the option of booking their child into a GP for the Pfizer vaccination.
“I’m sure many parents of children in this age group are very keen to get their kids vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as they can,†he said.
Education and Training Minister Sue Ellery said it was important that families had the discussion about everyone over 12 getting vaccinated.
“Getting the COVID vaccine will better protect more people, their families and their friends,†she said.
All Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 12 to 15 years old are already eligible to access vaccinations through state-run vaccination clinics in regional and metropolitan areas, in addition to GPs and Aboriginal Medical Services.
Children in remote Aboriginal communities will be offered vaccinations as part of broader community outreach vaccination programs.
Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates as at June 30, 2020 show there are 132,848 Western Australians aged 12 to 15 inclusive.
There have been more than 1.9 million vaccinations administered to West Australians
across the state.
Australians with blood cancer are battling to secure life-saving stem cell transplants amid acute COVID-19 disruptions and a funding crunch.
A stem cell or bone marrow transplant is the most effective form of treatment for most blood cancers and other life-threatening blood disorders. Patients are matched with a genetically suitable donor locally or overseas through the federal government funded Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
Neil Pennock, co-founder of TLR Foundation is calling on the federal government to address problems with Australia’s bone marrow donor pool.Credit:Rhett Wyman
The Australian Red Cross Lifeblood receives millions of dollars from federal and state governments to recruit new donors to the registry but experts say the model has failed to deliver the necessary donors.
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G’day everyone. I’m Roy Ward and I’ll be taking over the blog for this afternoon and this evening.
I hope you are all having a nice Sunday afternoon and thanks again for the comments and interactions so far today.
Enjoy the afternoon to come and enjoy this video from the MCG encouraging everyone to get vaccinated.
Thanks for following the blog today, I’m about to hand over to Roy Ward who will keep you updated into the evening. If you’re just tuning in to today’s live blog, here’s what you need to know:
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said while it was “fantastic news†that the state would receive additional doses of two COVID-19 vaccines in coming weeks, he had not been informed by the Commonwealth that extra vaccines were on the way.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a short time ago that 400,000 additional Pfizer and Moderna doses would be sent to Melbourne’s COVID-19 hotspots, predominantly in the city’s north and west.
Mr Andrews â€" who was conducting a press conference at the time Mr Morrison made his announcement â€" said he had not been advised about the extra jabs before Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney.
“That’s apparently how our national government works these days, but anyway, I’m delighted to know that, that’s fantastic news,†Mr Andrews said.
“It’s hard to know what to expect really, isn’t it? I didn’t expect that hundreds of thousands of doses that should come to Victoria would have gone to Sydney, but they did.
“Maybe while I was talking to you, there’s a missed call on my phone, I don’t know.
“Let’s get (vaccines) into arms, that’s what I’m about ... Maybe if they’d been ordered last year, maybe they would have been in arms already.â€
The Berejiklian government’s green light to outdoor gatherings for vaccinated Sydneysiders has come too late to save Sculpture by the Sea.
For the second year, the popular outdoor event that before COVID-19 would draw up to half a million visitors to the two-kilometre coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama has been cancelled due to the pandemic lockdowns.
Artists Marina DeBris and Joel Adler.Credit:Rhett Wyman
Organisers are looking for a new date in 2022 after conceding they could not comply with health restrictions and limit crowds to the doubled vaccinated without “doing the unthinkable†and cordoning off the entire coastal walk.
Sculpture by the Sea was originally postponed to October 21 with the same lineup of artists after failing to secure an exemption from the NSW Health Department in 2020.
Founder David Handley said such security levels would have been unpalatable to locals and the broader public who prized access to the shoreline.
“Whilst the government may say major events can happen for the vaccinated, we have no means of controlling that unless we fence off the Bondi coastal walk,†Handley said.
“We would need to have it fenced off or secured by security guards. Even if that was feasible from a cost point-of-view it’s not something we or our stakeholders would want to consider.â€
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The COVID-19 Delta outbreak is growing faster in Victoria than NSW despite the faster and harder lockdown in Victoria, which also started its outbreak with higher vaccination coverage.
Infections are still lower in Victoria than NSW for the same stage of the pandemic, with Victoria reaching a three-day rolling average of 369 daily cases on September 11, the 62nd day since the first case in the community. NSW reached its 62nd day on August 16 with a three-day rolling average of 427.3 daily cases.
But epidemiologists warn Victoria’s outbreak is now accelerating more quickly and is set to overtake NSW unless both vaccination uptake and lockdown compliance improve.
Professor Catherine Bennett, the chair in epidemiology at Deakin University, says this should be the end of arguing over whether the NSW or Victorian approach was better.
“Sydney always took a more of a nutcracker approach, but that didn’t work when it came to Delta,†she said.
“We [Victoria] came in with a sledgehammer, but that still didn’t work. There’s probably not as much difference between, in terms of effectiveness, the sledgehammer, and the nutcracker - I think it was a bit of a distraction for all of us.â€
Professor Bennett said both contact tracing and lockdowns worked against the earlier variants of COVID-19 but neither of them had managed to stop the Delta variant, even in combination.
Read the full analysis on the comparison of the outbreaks between the two cities here.
One million doses of the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 have been secured by the federal government and are set to arrive in the country within the next week.
The Moderna doses have been sourced from European Union countries and will be directed to local pharmacies. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said pharmacies would start to receive the doses within two weeks.
“Families will now be able to go along together to their pharmacy to get their vaccinations,†Mr Morrison said.
“As all these extra doses arrive in Australia we’ll see queues for vaccines cut at the more than 9000 places you can get vaccinated. Mum, dad and the kids will also be able to go to their local community pharmacist to get vaccinated as a family all at the same time.â€
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has recommended Moderna for everyone 12 years and older.
Mr Morrison said there would be enough vaccines in the country by October to have offered everyone a vaccine jab.
Around 3600 community pharmacies across Australia will share in the vaccines. Up to 1800 Pharmacies will begin to receive doses through the week of the September 20. The next 1800 pharmacies will follow shortly after, the federal government said in a statement.
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