Breaking: NSW has recorded 390 new local COVID-19 cases, the state's highest daily total since the pandemic began. There were two deaths. Follow our live coverage:
Victoria will make the Astra Zeneca vaccine available to adults at all state vaccination hubs with Premier Daniel Andrews setting a target of 1 million jabs over the next five weeks.
“That means that AstraZeneca will be available to everybody over 18 at all of our state hubs, all 50 of them. We will expand our drive- through locations.”NSW has reported 390 new local cases, the highest daily COVID-19 case total since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. There were no new cases in Tamworth, Armidale and the Northern Rivers regions but Ms Berejiklian said those parts of regional NSW are “not out of the woods” yet given there are exposure sites in those areas.School in Sydney’s west closes over COVID concernsBerala Public School, in Sydney’s west, is closed for cleaning today after the NSW Department of Education was advised of a possible case of COVID-19 in the school community.
“I think, from our point of view, from Queensland’s point of view, we are very concerned - as I said yesterday - about how the clusters are continuing to expand,” she said. Anyone in Queensland who has been in the ACT since August 9 must immediately quarantine at home for 14 days from the date they left the territory. From 1am tomorrow, anyone who arrives in Queensland from the ACT must go into hotel quarantine.Non-urgent elective surgery will be temporarily postponed at Dubbo Base Hospital, in regional NSW, from Monday, August 16.Dubbo is currently in a week-long lockdown that started on Wednesday.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says all of the cases are linked to the Indooroopilly cluster and were in isolation for their entire infectious period.Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said families who have gone into quarantine after being identified as close contacts had saved lives. “[The stores on the exposure list] have been cleaned so they actually are available to the [public] ... if those stores have the staff that weren’t working there on the Saturday and they’re not getting tested and isolating.
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