Melbourne school closed after year 12 student tests positive
By Paul Sakkal
UPDATED: An independent Jewish school in Melbourne’s south-east has closed after a student tested positive to COVID-19.
A year 12 student at Leibler Yavneh College in Elsternwick was diagnosed and the school will close until contact tracing and sanitising is completed.
The student last attended school on July 15 and has not displayed any symptoms, according to an email from the school to parents.
The school’s Balaclava Road campus in Caulfield North will remain open.
“We understand that this is an uncertain time, and many in the Yavneh community may be feeling anxious,” the letter said.
Victoria's largest cluster of cases stems from Al-Taqwa College in the western suburb of Truganina.
Many schools have closed for periods during the pandemic due to students testing positive.
Currently, only year 11 and 12 students, as well as special needs students, are attending school for face-to-face learning.
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Virus detectives 'concerned' by mystery cases as NSW doubles down on tracers
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons
NSW Health is doubling the size of its contact tracing team and capping international arrivals, as the state grapples with two separate clusters of COVID-19 and five mystery cases that have virus detectives "really concerned".
The five cases still under investigation last night included a man and a teenager from the same household who visited the Soldier's Club in Batemans Bay on July 13 and McDonald's in Albion Park two days later.
In the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday night, NSW recorded 15 new cases and conducted a record 27,702 COVID tests, including about 3000 in the south-western Sydney area at the epicentre of the recent outbreaks. Four of the new cases were returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
Meanwhile, Victoria reported another 217 new cases - although this was a significant drop from the 428 recorded on Friday, reducing the chance that state will be plunged into stage four lockdowns.
There are now 45 confirmed cases in the Crossroads Hotel cluster in Casula and the nearby Planet Fitness gym, and three cases in a separate cluster from the Thai Rock restaurant in Wetherill Park.
British government orders review of virus death figures
By Andrew MacAskill
London: Britain’s Health Minister Matt Hancock has ordered a review into how deaths from coronavirus are reported in England after academics said the daily figures may be unreliable and include people who have died of other causes, an official said.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock.Credit:AP
The way Public Health England, a government agency responsible for managing infectious disease outbreaks, calculates the figures in England means they might look worse than in other parts of the United Kingdom, according to two academics.
Yoon Loke, from the University of East Anglia, and Carl Heneghan, from the University of Oxford, said Public Health England cross-checks the latest notifications of deaths against a database of positive test results – so anyone who has tested positive can be recorded as dying from the virus.
In a blog titled "Why no-one can recover from COVID-19 in England", the academics said that patients who tested positive for COVID, but were successfully treated, would still be counted as dying from the virus if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later.
Britain's death toll of more than 45,000 from confirmed cases of COVID-19 is Europe's highest.
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Melbourne school closed after year 12 student tests positive
By Paul Sakkal
UPDATED: An independent Jewish school in Melbourne’s south-east has closed after a student tested positive to COVID-19.
A year 12 student at Leibler Yavneh College in Elsternwick was diagnosed and the school will close until contact tracing and sanitising is completed.
The student last attended school on July 15 and has not displayed any symptoms, according to an email from the school to parents.
The school’s Balaclava Road campus in Caulfield North will remain open.
“We understand that this is an uncertain time, and many in the Yavneh community may be feeling anxious,” the letter said.
Victoria's largest cluster of cases stems from Al-Taqwa College in the western suburb of Truganina.
Many schools have closed for periods during the pandemic due to students testing positive.
Currently, only year 11 and 12 students, as well as special needs students, are attending school for face-to-face learning.
Dozens face $1000 fines after boozy Sydney house party breaches COVID rules
By Josh Dye
Dozens of people are facing $1000 fines after police broke up a boozy late-night house party in Sydney's north-west on Saturday night.
More than 60 people were partying at the house at Nottingham Street in Schofields when police arrived just before midnight following a noise complaint. The maximum number of guests allowed at a home is 20 people under the Public Health Order.
The party house where police were called after a noise complaint.Credit:Airbnb
A massive police presence attended the party with helicopters, the dog squad and officers from six local area commands called in. The party was hosted at a holiday rental property, NSW Police said.
A 15-person brawl broke out inside the house when police arrived, with many of the guests intoxicated. Police officers used pepper spray to disperse the drunken crowd.
Remote region of Brazil's Amazon counts first deaths by virus
By Mauricio Savarese
Sao Paulo: The first deaths from COVID-19 have come to a vast, remote region of the Amazon the Brazilian government says is home to the greatest concentration of isolated Indigenous groups in the world.
Experts fear the new coronavirus could spread rapidly among peoples with lesser resistance even to already common diseases and limited access to healthcare, potentially wiping out some smaller groups.
Six-year-old Ezinaldo dos Santosposes wears the traditional dress of his tribe and a Spiderman face mask in the Gaviao community near Manaus, Brazil, on Friday.Credit:AP
A 83-year-old Marubo man known as Yovêmpa died of COVID-19 on July 5, the country's Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health said five days later. Two other deaths were reported later by the independent Indigenous Peoples' Coordination.
Yovêmpa was not in an isolated group, but lived in a village close to some of those groups.
An organisation representing Marubo people on the Itui River said in a statement that the elder indigenous leader hadn’t left home for months.
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Good morning all
By Roy Ward
G'day everyone and welcome to today's COVID-19 live blog as we continue our coverage of the ongoing pandemic.
Yesterday brought with it a welcome chance to take stock in Victoria after a disturbing week of growing case numbers, the state still had 217 new cases but that was well down from the 428 the previous day.
Today will be the chance for authorities to, hopefully, again show a lower number of cases as we move into our second week of lockdown.
In NSW, the government will be hoping it sees very few new cases after the outbreaks around Casula.
We will have plenty of coverage to come today and please feel free to leave a comment on the blog or shoot me a tweet directly at @rpjward on Twitter.
Outbreaks in regional Victoria as prospect of stage four lockdown eases
By Tom Cowie
Authorities are concerned about the spread of coronavirus into nursing homes in regional Victoria, as a fall in overall case numbers eased the prospect of Melbourne being forced into stage four lockdown.
Victoria recorded 217 new infections of COVID-19 on Saturday, the state's lowest daily increase since last Monday. It was almost half the daily tally of 428 on Friday and just over a week after metropolitan Melbourne resumed stage three restrictions.
There are now 110 people in hospital, with 25 of those in intensive care, however a further three people died after contracting the virus. They were a man and woman in their 80s and a woman in her 90s, taking the overall death toll to 35.
The number of health workers who have contracted COVID-19 rose by 11 to 405. Dr Sutton said measures such as staying at home and wearing a mask were aimed at protecting those people.
Three new aged care facilities were hit with fresh outbreaks, after single cases were recorded at Mercy Health Bethlehem Home for the Aged in Bendigo, the Bill Crawford Lodge in Ballarat and Bupa Aged Care Edithvale.
Clusters also grew at Glendale Aged Care facility in Werribee (23 cases), St Basil’s Home for the Aged in Fawkner (nine cases) and Estia Health Aged Care in Heidelberg (13 cases).
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