Twenty new coronavirus cases confirmed in Victoria
By Melissa Cunningham and Craig Butt
A total of 20 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Victoria, the state's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has said.
It is the eighth straight day that the number of new cases has been in double digits.
Ms Mikakos warned the state had been reporting a 2.5 replication rate this week. (This means on average an infected person spreads the disease to 2.5 other people)
The state government has previously said the replication rate should be below one.
"This has happened very suddenly," Ms Mikakos said.
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Man in his 80s becomes Victoria's first coronavirus death in weeks
By Rachael Dexter
A man in his 80s has died overnight in Victoria from coronavirus, the first in many weeks, which brings the total number of deaths in the state to 20.
There are 20 new cases of COVID-19 to report today, said Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.
"Seven are linked to known outbreaks. One has been detected in hotel quarantine. Nine through routine testing and three other cases are under investigation," he said.
The man's death takes the national death toll from coronavirus to 103.
Busy coronavirus testing site has closed
A busy coronavirus testing site at a Melbourne shopping centre has closed this morning, radio station 3AW is reporting.
The Chadstone drive through testing location closed 20 minutes after opening, 3AW has reported.
Some took to social media to hit out at the closure:
Watch live: Coronavirus update for Victoria from state's Chief Health Officer
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton will be giving an update on the state's coronavirus numbers at 9.30am.
You can watch the press conference below:
No new coronavirus cases in Queensland for seventh straight day
By Matt Dennien
Queensland has now recorded seven days without a new COVID-19 case, Premier Annastacia Palaszcuk has confirmed.
In an update posted to social media on Wednesday morning, Ms Palaszczuk said just two of the state’s 1066 confirmed cases were still considered active.
As of Thursday, both cases were on the Gold Coast and just one remained in hospital.
More than 6500 tests were conducted in the state on Tuesday.
Twenty new coronavirus cases confirmed in Victoria
By Melissa Cunningham and Craig Butt
A total of 20 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Victoria, the state's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has said.
It is the eighth straight day that the number of new cases has been in double digits.
Ms Mikakos warned the state had been reporting a 2.5 replication rate this week. (This means on average an infected person spreads the disease to 2.5 other people)
The state government has previously said the replication rate should be below one.
"This has happened very suddenly," Ms Mikakos said.
Coronavirus update for Victoria at 9.30am today
Once again, it seems that all eyes are on Victoria this morning as we wait to find out whether there has been another double-digit increase in coronavirus cases.
The state's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton will be providing an update on Victoria's COVID-19 situation at 9.30am today. We're hoping to get a live feed of the press conference closer to the time to post in the blog.
Earlier this morning, Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said a list of the Melbourne suburbs that had been identified as coronavirus hotspots would be released today. At the moment the smallest boundaries provided by the health department are local government areas, which often take in more than a dozen suburbs.
Victoria has recorded double-digit increases in coronavirus cases for the past seven consecutive days, and community transmission (cases that don't involve returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine or those connected to known clusters) has also been on the rise.
Victorian government redoubling efforts to provide coronavirus information to multicultural communities
By Rachael Dexter
Victorian Health authorities are “redoubling” their efforts to reach multicultural communities at-risk in Melbourne’s coronavirus hotspots who may not watch mainstream media, Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has said.
“Clearly there are parts of the community that have not received the message,” she said on ABC Radio National this morning. “We have to worker harder to reach these people”.
Ms Mikakos rebuffed the idea that the government had been caught on the back foot not paying enough attention to Victoria’s multicultural communities.
Victorian Minister for Health Jenny MikakosCredit:Getty
She said there had been coronavirus information provided in over 50 languages since the beginning of the pandemic in the state.
“But we are redoubling those efforts,” she said.
Health officials will now door-knock areas to provide information in hotspot suburbs from this week.
NSW should 'rethink any travel to Melbourne', but AFL teams will be allowed into Sydney: Premier
By Mary Ward
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has reiterated her advice for people to "rethink any travel to Melbourne whatsoever", although she says it is unlikely her state will close its borders.
"We're recommending people just don't travel to Melbourne at this point in time until the government feels down there they have controlled the community spread," the Premier told ABC television this morning.
Speaking about the possibility of closing the Victorian border, Ms Berejiklian said the detrimental impact of such a move on communities such as Albury-Wodonga meant it was unlikely.
"We don't want it to come to that; I have confidence that what is going on in Melbourne can be contained," she said, noting Victoria did not shut its border when NSW was recording more than 200 cases a day in April.
After yesterday telling NSW businesses to not "interact with citizens from Melbourne" because of the city's spike in cases, Ms Berejiklian confirmed the Bulldogs and Collingwood AFL teams would still be able to enter Sydney for their games against the Swans and GWS this week "as long as those safety checks have been in place and players have confirmed to be negative".
"Those organisations have a responsibility already in their COVIDSafe plans," she said.
Names of coronavirus hotspot suburbs in Victoria to be released today: State Health Minister
The names of specific suburbs of most concern for coronavirus cases in Melbourne’s hotspot areas will be released today, Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has told ABC Radio National.
Earlier this week six local government areas in Melbourne (Brimbank, Hume, Darebin, Moreland, Casey and Cardinia) were named as hotspot areas, with recommendations that the over one million people in those areas reduce their non-essential travel out of the areas.
There has been criticism from local mayors that the advice is not locationally specific enough.
Ms Mikakos said she would be naming the suburbs later today.
The map below shows the local government areas in Melbourne with the most active coronavirus cases as of yesterday. Municipal boundaries are the smallest geographic boundary for which infection numbers are provided by the state health department, but most include more than a dozen suburbs.
She said areas in the community where there a been a “concerning” increase in positive cases were often lower socio-economic, disadvantaged areas.
“Blue collar-communities… where parts of the economy didn’t shut down,” she said.
She cited manufacturing as one industry which had more-or-less operated as usual since the beginning of the pandemic, are workers were unable to work from home.
Diversion plans from Melbourne changed for overseas arrivals
By Rob Harris, Michael Fowler and Dana McCauley
A plan to divert Australians returning from overseas away from Melbourne has been abandoned at the eleventh hour after intense negotiations between the federal government and Victorian authorities.
Concerns about Victoria's handling of quarantine following COVID-19 outbreaks linked to two hotels had sparked the move within the federal government to divert repatriation flights away from Melbourne to other Australian cities.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.Credit:AAP
But after The Age raised questions with both governments on Tuesday night, the plan was reversed.
"There are no plans at this stage to divert repatriation flights from Melbourne to other airports," an Australian Border Force spokesperson told The Age.
"The ABF continues to work with state and territory authorities on their ability to receive repatriation flights at their airports based on the available health resources and quarantine capacity."
A federal government source said repatriation flights could still be diverted to other cities should the need arise, but for now Victoria will take the arrivals.
The plan came as neighbouring states stepped up precautions against Victorians after the state suffered its seventh consecutive day of double-digit increase in new coronavirus cases on Tuesday.
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