Australia news LIVE One million Moderna doses coming as outbreak accelerates in Victoria
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Childcare centres in Toorak and Truganina are among the latest tier 1 additions to Victoria’s exposure sites list.
St Catherines Early Learning in Toorak was listed for September 6 from 8am to 5.15pm and Yara Childcare Centre in Truganina on September 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 from 7am to 5pm.
Anyone who attended either location at the listed dates and times needs to immediately seek a COVID-19 test and quarantine for 14 days.
You can find the updating list of exposure sites here.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s snap decision to walk-away from her daily COVID-19 briefings may have been designed to set a new tone for how NSW must come to terms with our new normal. Instead, it fuelled unease within her ranks that a corruption watchdog scandal that has hung over the Premier for almost a year was about to intensify.
As NSW faces the peak of the outbreak, possibly as early as this week, it took everyone by surprise, even her most trusted ministers in crisis cabinet, that Berejiklian was ending the 11am ritual. If nothing else, the optics are shocking. As we are about to face the worst this pandemic has thrown at us, now is not the time to abandon ship. Leadership, and accountability, have never been more critical.
A composite mosaic photo of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian made with photos from her daily COVID-19 updates this year.Credit:Main photo by Louie Douvis, composite created by Georgia Willis with photos by Herald photographers
Admittedly, many of her ministers did not see the ongoing benefit of the daily press conference, concerned it was doing the government more harm than good because the messaging was becoming confused. But they did not expect a formal announcement that it would end so swiftly.
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Victoria faces a surge in the number of coronavirus patients who will need to be treated at home instead of a hospital, and health authorities say those people could be at risk without more resources to care for them.
Internal department projections show that the state is on the brink of a 10-fold increase in COVID-19 infections over the next six weeks as restrictions ease, with a predicted 18,000 active coronavirus cases and 800 people in hospital by mid-October.
The vast majority of cases, however, will involve COVID-19 patients who are monitored at home as part of a triaging process designed to take pressure off Victoria’s stretched public health system.
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The British parents of a soccer player fighting for his life in a Perth hospital were surprised by the welcome they received in Western Australia while awaiting news of when they can visit their son.
Peter and Nicola Hodgson, who said they were living “a parent’s worst nightmareâ€, arrived in Perth from the United Kingdom on Friday to be with son Danny who was in an induced coma at Royal Perth Hospital.
Danny Hodgson took home the Golden Boot last season.Credit:Facebook
Danny Hodgson was allegedly coward punched after walking home near the Perth train station in the early hours of last Sunday morning.
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Health authorities and police in Queensland are investigating two community incursions of COVID-19 from NSW and another potential case from an international arrival.
After reporting zero new cases on Sunday morning, Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said she was “genuinely hopeful†the state had dodged a serious outbreak, but warned that the threat had not passed.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young Credit:Matt Dennien
She thanked close to 1000 families in home quarantine for two weeks because of school and social ties to an infected family of five from Sunnybank and Moorooka.
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A range of small businesses including hairdressers, restaurants, pubs and other retailers are promoting themselves on social media as wanting to welcome customers who are “jabbed or unjabbedâ€, once they open.
A pizza outlet’s social media post jokes that it only discriminates against customers who want pineapple topping.
Gabriele Moretti who runs Amoretti restaurant in Abbotsbury does not want to discriminate against customers who are not vaccinated against COVID-19.
The NSW government’s road map to freedom will allow fully vaccinated people and those with medical exemptions access to hospitality venues and retail stores after NSW hits the 70 per cent double-dose target.
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A small bushfire broke out next to Richmond Avenue, Dee Why at around lunchtime today.
Members from NSW Police, Fire and Rescue NSW, and the Rural Fire Service attended the scene and the blaze was extinguished quickly.
It’s not yet clear how the fire was started but Fire and Rescue NSW Dee Why station officer Tim Kerrigan said there were ‘obvious’ signs of people in the area, with plastic chairs, and some drug paraphernalia found at the scene.
NSW Fire and Rescue extinguished fires in the same area last year.
It was a scorching day for much of the state with Evans Head topping the table around 2pm after recording 32.8 degrees.
Port Macquarie came in second with 32.2 degrees and Sydney’s Airport got up to 31.5 degrees.
Men have been getting the lion’s share of emergency income support during Sydney’s winter lockdown even though women have borne the brunt of job losses.
The total number of workers in NSW relying on the federal government’s COVID-19 disaster payment has climbed past 1 million, most of them in Sydney, as pandemic restrictions take a growing toll on the economy.
About 19 per cent of men across Greater Sydney are receiving the disaster payment, versus 12 per cent of women, analysis of anonymous bank account data by Accenture and illion shows. The most recent employment data showed women accounted for about 80 per cent of the decline in employment across Sydney in July but made up only 40 per cent of disaster payment recipients.
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It seems all of Waverley, Randwick and Woollahra residents are making the most of their 5km radius by cooling off at the beach today.
The Herald’s photographer Edwina Pickles was among them, and documented crowded scenes at Bondi beach.
Woollahra Council has just shut Camp Cove and Redleaf beach at Double Bay as crowds exceed capacity.
People visit Bondi beach on Sunday.Credit:Edwina Pickles
Redleaf is the only beach within the 5km radius of much of inner west residents residing in suburbs such as Redfern.
Despite a heavy police presence in the region, Waverley council confirmed it did not intend to close Bondi beach, or any others in the local government area on the 28 degree day.
The scene at Bondi beach on Sunday.Credit:Edwina Pickles
NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said that while images of the large crowds concerned her, but that “in reality, outdoor environments if people are keeping away from each other, are probably the safest environments.â€
“I would like to see that people are really respectful and they are adhering to the public health orders as they move about, if they are walking along the beach,†Dr Chant said.
She also acknowledged she was asking a lot of those in south-western Sydney and Western Sydney who do not have any access to any beaches due to the constraints of their 5km radius
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.
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