Health Minister Jenny Mikakos is due to give an update on the COVID-19 situation in Victoria from 11am:
Victoria’s state of emergency has been extended until 11:59pm on June 21.
“The reason we have done that is to enable the Chief Health Officer to retain the powers that he has available to him to respond to this pandemic in an effective way,” Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said.
Ms Mikakos said the move allowed for the implementation of new legal directions starting tomorrow regarding how many people can gather in public and private spaces.
“So all of those legal directions will be put on the department’s website later today,” she said.
“It’s really important for Victorians to understand this pandemic is not over, this battle is not won”.
The Victorian Health Minister has urged Keilor Downs residents to get tested - even with very mild symptoms - after an outbreak that has affected two schools in the area.
A grade 2 class at Holy Eucharist Primary School has been quarantined but the school will remain open. Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
“We obviously have some concerns about what might be happening in the Keilor Downs area, it’s possible there might be community transmission in that area that hasn’t been established to date,” she said.
Keilor Downs Secondary and Holy Eucharist Primary School are both due to reopen tomorrow after deep cleaning due to infected students.
An entire grade two class and a teacher at Holy Eucharist School are in quarantine after one pupil tested positive for coronavirus.
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton confirmed yesterday that the child was related to a student at Keilor Downs College who also contracted the virus but was unsure whether they lived together.
A new pop-up testing clinic has been established at Keilor Downs community hub.
Ms Mikakos said 150 people went through the screening clinic yesterday.
There has been a net increase of four cases of coronavirus in Victoria since yesterday, bringing 1649, says Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos.
There were six new cases yesterday, but two cases were removed from the overall tally due to reclassification.
Two of the new cases are linked to a family outbreak in Keilor Downs - with 13 people now infected.
Both the new cases in this cluster remained at home for two weeks prior to their positive result.
There are no new deaths in Victoria, with the fatality tally sitting at 19.
There are six people in hospital, including two in intensive care, 168 cases in Victoria have been acquired through community transmission so far.
More than 509,000 Victorians have been tested for coronavirus.
Another three cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in NSW since yesterday, bringing the total number in the state to 3095.
All three are returned travellers in hotel quarantine, NSW Health said in a tweet:
Health Minister Jenny Mikakos is due to give an update on the COVID-19 situation in Victoria from 11am:
The world has just passed another pandemic milestone with more than 6 million cases confirmed, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
More than 368,000 people have so far died from the virus around the world.
Working from home during the pandemic has meant dogs across Australia have had company all day, every day.
But now, as many face the prospect of returning to the office, dog owners have a heartbreaking task on their hands: break the news to little Fido.
Animal behaviourist Dr Kate Mornement, of Pets Behaving Badly, says many pets will have grown used to the perks of having their owners at home – more attention, more treats, more walks. She says the return to work will be a "big change" for many pets which can cause stress and anxiety.
"Sudden changes to the normal routine, like going back to work after working from home for a month, are a common cause of separation anxiety," Mornement says.
Deputy Lifestyle Editor Sophie Aubrey speaks with Dr Mornement about how to prepare your dog for your return to work.
You can read the full story here.
Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter says the economic spoils of 29 years of uninterrupted economic growth are gone because of the coronavirus, with unions and businesses now needing to work out how to create jobs in the wake of the global pandemic.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week announced a plan to get unions and businesses together to come up with an ambitious plan to streamline industrial awards and enterprise bargaining agreements in a bid to lift the economy out of the COVID-19 crisis.
Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations Christian Porter says unions and businesses must work together. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Mr Porter on Sunday morning confirmed two of the most pressing issues would be criminalising wage theft and coming up with a plan to introduce lifetime agreements for large greenfield projects.
He said it had always been a good idea to get unions and businesses around the table but before the coronavirus it was “just hard to achieve”.
“We've been in extraordinary circumstances and the challenges that we face to grow our way out of the economic damage the pandemic has caused are just colossal,” Mr Porter told the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday morning.
“So there's a coalescence of interests for the first time in a long time. We all thought it was a good idea.
You can book and you can invite, but the willingness of all of the parties - this isn't a criticism of unions or business - all of the parties have in effect been arguing for many years around pretty considerable spoils of 29 years of uninterrupted growth, and in whole industry sectors those spoils are gone.”
Opposition treasury spokesman Jim Chalmers said Labor wanted the process to work, but there was “deep scepticism in the community about what the prime minister is now talking about”.
“These are the same characters who for seven years have been dividing the community,” Mr Chalmers told Sky News.
“They have been demonising people on social security payments, they have been trying to diminish the role of unions, they have been cutting penalty rates, they’re responsible for stagnant wages and insecure work.”
Stamping out COVID-19 is within Australia's sights as the growth of new cases slows to a trickle, but a leading infectious disease expert says it will take at least a year of living with restrictions before the coronavirus could be declared eliminated, reports Dana McCauley.
Professor Raina MacIntyre from the University of NSW Kirby Institute said that although the number of confirmed cases in Australia was now low, the key to eliminating COVID-19 was in stamping out community transmission, where the virus spreads without a known source.
"Elimination means not having sustained domestic transmission," Professor MacIntyre said.
"Australia can achieve this, but it would require a demonstration of a sustained period of low disease incidence - probably a year or more."
In that time, she said, authorities would need to maintain high levels of testing and contact tracing, keep international borders closed, continue with social distancing and potentially introduce "universal face mask use".
You can read Dana's full report here.
Since March, Australia's ambassador in the Philippines Steve Robinson and his team have facilitated the return of 2309 Australian citizens and permanent residents on eight international flights.
Onboard one of those flights was three-year-old Lukas McNeill. He had been taken to the Philippines by his father, Ian, to attend a wedding in February and was to be brought back by his grandfather in early April.
Because of the country's unique geography with 2000 inhabited islands, Mr Robinson's team arranged 29 "sweeper flights" across the three missions to retrieve people from far-flung locations. It took some people 18 hours just to reach a regional airport to board one of these sweeper flights.
The first flights departed Manila on April 18 with Mr Robinson's 200 embassy staff working past midnight to get the planes in the air. Ten days later, they did it all again before a third mission on Tuesday this week.
Globally, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has provided direct assistance to help about 22,000 people reach Australian shores, including 6500 cruise passengers. It estimates more than 300,000 have returned home in total since Prime Minister Scott Morrison sounded the alarm.
You can read Josh Dye's full story here.
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