NSW has recorded 830 new local cases of COVID-19 - its highest daily total - and three deaths
Victorian sports minister Martin Pakula is refusing to “wave the white flag” on hosting the AFL Grand Final at the MCG, but admits the game may have to move.
Mr Pakula said he is in constant discussion with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan and the government is “keenly interested” in what’s best for the sport as well as the state.12.18pmACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr says limits on peoples’ lives may still be a part of life when a high proportion of the territory’s population is vaccinated.
He said this was a discussion about what would happen several months in the future, given ACT has only just reached 60 per cent of first doses received, but there were several points to work through.He also warned off “broad brush language” of opening up, which shouldn’t be taken to mean there won’t be any protections put in place in future.
Mr Hazzard said it was an emerging pattern that states that had not experienced significant transmission had lower vaccination rates, and NSW’s rates had only picked up during the recent outbreak.Mr Hazzard said the strategy of shutting borders was “probably not going to be a long-term possibility” given the highly transmissible nature of the Delta variant.
“Yesterday, 3640 tests were conducted in the ACT,” Mr Barr said. While wait times were shorter lately he said that poor weather expected this week will affect pop up clinics and people are recommended to get tested today. Mr Hazzard said he was confident that, once NSW reached 80 per cent vaccination coverage, there would be “a lot more normality in our lives” and children may be able to return to school even if they were not yet eligible for a vaccine.
“We continue to see cases in younger people,” Ms Matson said. “We have 259 cases in people aged under 30. Mr Worboys said the curfew would “bring to the community a renewed enthusiasm about how serious this situation is.“What we have found in some of those LGA in south-west and western Sydney is that there is still a desire ... [with] young men wanting to leave their home and go about various engagements and activities through all hours of the night and this curfew will signal that this is the time that that sort of behaviour must stop,” he said.
“There must be a point in time where you stop exercising and you actually move among people or towards the shop and I would suggest you put a mask on,” he said. “I don’t really think it is that hard and I certainly don’t think it is confusing.”The Shepparton outbreak has spread to Mansfield overnight with a person going to the emergency department with symptoms at Mansfield District Hospital.
“What we’ve seen is more cases pop up in the areas where it is in Mansfield, the Royal Melbourne Hospital and other parts of metropolitan Melbourne that are of great concern. The vast majority of cases continue to be recorded in western Sydney: there were 317 new cases in the Western Sydney health district and 237 in the South Western Sydney district. Seventy new cases were recorded in the Nepean Blue Mountains district.
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