The Senate inquiry into the government's coronavirus response has kicked off again this morning with Reserve Bank governor Phillip Lowe taking questions.
Later today it will be Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chair Wayne Byres and Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton in the (videoconference) hot seat.
Twenty-four University of Melbourne students have been ordered to leave campus for breaking social distancing rules.
Trinity College, a residential college at the Parkville university, confirmed it asked the students to leave after an unauthorised gathering on Monday which broke government and college-mandated physical distancing rules.
Education Minister Dan Tehan at Trinity College earlier this year.Credit:Simon Schluter
The college said in a statement that students were aware adhering to these rules was a condition of living on campus.
"I am disappointed that some of our students did not observe the rules that are currently in place," Trinity College warden Professor Ken Hinchcliff said.
"These rules were introduced for their safety and that of our community."
The students will be allowed to return for semester two, the college said.
Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton says a spike in calls about people breaching social distancing rules was a major reason why Victoria fined almost 6000 people.
The number of fines in Victoria is almost three times greater than the number issued in Queensland and four times the number issued in NSW.
Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton with Police Minister Lisa Neville at a media conference in February.Credit:Paul Jeffers
“It’s certainly a lot of fines, no doubt about that," Mr Ashton said.
“Most of those fines occurred during Easter and that was a period when people were really nervous about what was going on in the community and the Police Assistance Line was flooded with thousands of calls.
“Certainly I don’t know about the interstate experience in relation to how nervous the community were but certainly we got a lot of calls through.”
He said when police caught people committing non-coronavirus offences, officers would also issue them with social distancing breach fines. This added to the number being greater than other states he said.
Mr Ashton, who will step down as Chief Commissioner at the end of June, said nearly 400 fines have been overturned after a review.
“Some people say we are not doing enough, other people say we are doing too many,” he said.
“I think the fines have been valid.”
Health authorities have identified 20 close contacts of Nathan Turner, who returned a positive COVID-19 test after the 30-year-old's death at home in the small central Queensland town of Blackwater on Tuesday.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles says 18 of those tested on Wednesday had since returned negative tests, with results for two more still to be returned.
Mr Miles says 31 people in the town were tested as part of the response on Wednesday, all of which were negative. There are a further 95 booked in for tests today, with an extra fever clinic to expand capacity in the town to 400 tests each day.
Chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young says only two of Mr Turner’s close contacts were from outside Blackwater, both of which are being followed up.
There had been no previous recorded cases in the town of Blackwater.
Dr Young says “of course” she could not rule out community transmission, which was why she was asking anyone with symptoms to be tested.
“We have the capacity in Queensland to test 10,000 each day,” Dr Young says. “We have not even reached half of that.”
There were no new cases of COVID-19 cases detected in Queensland in the past 24 hours after 3618 people were tested.
One more person has recovered from the disease since Wednesday meaning just six cases remain active.
The state’s total cases since January sits steady at 1058.
Four people infected with COVID-19 remain in hospital, one of those is in intensive care.
He'll be speaking about the ongoing investigation into the death of a 30-year-old in a Central Queensland mining town linked to COVID-19, among other issues.
About 300 staff at Cedar Meats, the western Melbourne meatworks at the centre of Victoria's biggest COVID-19 outbreak, returned to the abattoir for work this morning, as photographer Jason South captured below.
The Cedar Meats cluster has spread to 111 people, made up of 67 staff and 44 contacts. The last new cases linked to the outbreak were last Friday May 22.
Staff return to Cedar Meats in Brooklyn after it was shut down to a COVID-19 outbreak.Credit:Jason South
Staff at Cedar Meats on Thursday morning.Credit:Jason South
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The US death toll has passed 100,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
There have been 100,047 deaths from the virus in the country, the tally showed before 8am, AEST. Nearly 1.7 million Americans have been infected.
Over the weekend, the New York Times commemorated the then impending milestone early by publishing 1000 obituaries of the country's coronavirus victims.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles says health authorities are still working to confirm how the state’s latest COVID-19 related death contracted the virus despite not leaving the small Central Queensland town he lived in since February.
A specialist team has been dispatched to the town, with new fever clinics to begin extensive testing of residents this morning. However, Mr Miles says much is still unclear:
“We don’t know a lot more than yesterday," he tells ABC radio. “Our immediate focus is testing as many people as we can because that’s what will allow us to find out if the virus is circulating on the ground there or whether he has acquired it some other way.”
Nathan Turner, 30, is the seventh Queenslander to die with COVID-19. However, his exact cause of death is not confirmed.Credit:Facebook
Nathan Turner, 30, was found unresponsive by his partner in the Blackwater home they shared on Tuesday afternoon, with paramedics confirming he had passed away and his diagnosis later discovered in a post-mortem test.
Mr Miles says the results of a second test on his partner, who works at a shop in the town and displayed symptoms but returned a negative result, will be known later today.
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