Breaking: Victoria has recorded 22 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and one case in hotel quarantine. All the local cases are linked to known outbreaks. Follow all our coverage live at our blog.
Sydney’s Lord Mayor, the socially progressive independent Clover Moore, has slammed the Morrison government’s vaccine rollout as Sydney stares down the possibility of several more weeks of lockdown.Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore.“If we had had vaccination available earlier in the year, this wouldn’t be happening to Sydney now. It’s a huge cost on people’s lives, on people’s wellbeing, on the economy. On the future. And the federal government just has to absolutely get its act together.
Australia’s Deputy Chief Health Officer Professor Michael Kidd is doing the breakfast TV rounds this morning.show to talk about the growing number of coronavirus patients in the nation’s hospitals. As it stands, there are just over 142 people with COVID-19 hospitalised in Australia and more than 20 in ICU. The majority of those patients are in NSW.“[I’m] very concerned about the number of people who are in intensive care units at the moment,” Professor Kidd said.
“The good thing that we are seeing in NSW [is] we are not not seeing a dramatic escalation number of new cases each day. Indeed, we saw a slight decline in the numbers reported yesterday.”An infectious disease expert says Sydney may not be able to achieve zero cases of COVID-19 community transmission because of the highly transmissible nature of the Delta variant.
Professor Dore said once transmission of the Delta variant takes hold in a community it can escalate very rapidly.“I think the campaign to undermine the AstraZeneca vaccine, a highly effective, safe vaccine, we’ll look back at that as one of the most baffling public health disasters.”Melbourne will have spent six months, or 185 days, under lockdown when the state is released from restrictions next week.
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