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First COVID-19 treatment drug approved in Australia could reduce hospital strain
By Ashleigh McMillan
The first drug slated to combat COVID-19 in severely ill patients and reduce recovery time has been approved for use within Australia hospitals.
COVID-19 drug remdesivir was given provisional approval in Australia on Friday, for use in adults and adolescents with severe virus symptoms.
A vial of the drug remdesivir, which has been given provisional approval for use in Australia.Credit:Gilead Sciences
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said remdesivir had the potential to reduce the strain on the healthcare system by "reducing recovery times" and freeing up hospital beds.
The drug will not be available to Australians unless they are in hospital, severely unwell and requiring oxygen or high-level breathing support. It has not been shown to be effective in preventing COVID-19 or improving milder cases of the virus.
Crossroads Hotel testing clinic in south-west Sydney opens early due to high demand
By Natassia Chrysanthos
The Crossroads Hotel pop-up clinic in Casula has opened 45 minutes early this morning due to demand for coronavirus testing.
Nine News reported the line of cars stretched for about one kilometre ahead of the scheduled 10am start time.
Herald photographer Dominic Lorrimer is at the pop-up clinic, where people are being swabbed from their cars.
People line up in their cars to be tested at the COVID-19 pop up civic testing clinic at the Crossroads Hotel in Casula, Sydney on Saturday.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
Testing began in the Crossroads Hotel car park yesterday after NSW Health confirmed two people recently diagnosed with coronavirus had both attended the venue independently on Friday July 3.
Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has urged anyone who visited hotel on that date to self-isolate, monitor for symptoms and come forward for testing immediately if they develop even the mildest of symptoms.
Victorian update to come at 11am
By Roy Ward
The Victorian government is scheduled to give its daily COVID-19 update at 11am.
We plan to have a live stream up and running for it considering the wide interest in these briefings.
There hasn't been any word so far on what the case numbers look like but Premier Daniel Andrews has been preparing Victorians for several more days of large numbers. Hopefully that isn't the case today.
Migrant workers who fed WA now find themselves hungry and homeless
By Aja Styles
They were the frontline workers picking food to keep West Australians fed during the pandemic, but now 400-odd migrant workers, mainly from the Pacific Islands, have found themselves jobless, homeless and stranded in Manjimup and its surrounding townships.
As the May picking season drew to a close, the Shire of Manjimup was approved $428,364 from the LotteryWest financial hardship assistance scheme to provide food, shelter, crisis accommodation, transport, gas bottles, firewood, and other emergency relief items.
Relieved backpackers in Manjimup after receiving food donations from Second Bite.
It was the most money granted to a regional council, aside from the Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation (Jamukurnu-Yapalikunu) – which got $608,000 to support the disadvantaged and vulnerable across seven Martu communities in the Central Western Desert of the Pilbara – and the state’s Red Cross, with $716,645.
Opinion: With no crowds and few goals, what is the point?
By Greg Baum
At least three accomplished former players I know wonder why the AFL is persevering at all with season 2020.
The answer lies where it is usually found, on the bottom line. It’s to shore up broadcast rights income, for this season and seasons to come.
Without it, there would be no game. The existential threat to the broadcasters earlier this year was spookier to the AFL than the pandemic.
Geelong and the Brisbane Lions play in front of a near-empty SCG on Thursday.Credit:Getty Images
Even in its bastardised 2020 form, footy’s keeping some people in jobs and many others entertained, and in this time of eternal standstill is probably keeping quite a few of us sane. That should be enough.
I don’t want to death-ride the competition. There’s enough death-riding elsewhere right now.
I can’t blame the AFL for pushing every button and pulling every string.
But it is hard to escape the feeling that this season is so beside the point. The AFL’s total evacuation of Victoria this week only sharpens it.
The bi-product is a boost for the game in the northern states, but it’s momentary, an accident.
Queensland records two new cases from overseas travellers
By Lucy Stone
Queensland has reported two new cases of COVID-19 from travellers returning overseas, but one existing case has recovered, leaving the state with three current confirmed cases.
Premier Annastasia Palaszczuk tweeted the figures on Saturday morning, with Queensland's total tally of confirmed cases now at 1070.
More than 5000 tests were conducted statewide in the past 25 hours.
The state has not changed its policy to open the borders to all states bar Victoria, despite some "troubling" new cases appearing in NSW yesterday.
Traffic queues at the Gold Coast border had eased overnight after thousands of border pass applications, but the RACQ recommended drivers still allow extra travel time.
Police check cars for permits at a checkpoint in Coolangatta as the Queensland border on Friday.Credit:Paul Harris
Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan is expected to make an announcement about boosting police resources on Saturday morning, after reports more police were being pulled from frontline duties to manage hotel quarantine for returned travellers.
Victorian government releases video on masks
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton is featured in the Department of Health and Human Services video which instructs Victorians on when they should wear masks and what masks are best to use.
Watch it below.
Analysis: Lock-down lunacy: How we stuffed it up
By John Silvester
The busy television executive was heading to the office lift when his eyes flashed to the wall of TVs broadcasting one of Australia’s most popular daytime shows. The problem was it was the flagship of another network.
The private security guard at the front desk had flicked the remote to another station as he was bored with his employer’s choice of a 20-year-old sit-com.
The executive, filled with rage and post-lunch brandy, rang the security firm demanding the guard be sacked but after much diplomatic dancing he was given a second chance.
The security business is big business and behind the uniforms and marked cars it is also a ruthless one.
The industry is well and truly under the microscope as guards employed to enforce quarantine protocols at lockdown hotels have been blamed for the COVID-19 spike.
If the stories are true some of these guards thought social distancing was a sexual position from the Kama Sutra.
Rather than enforcing a strict 14-day lockdown it appears guards' training consisted of watching reruns of Hogan’s Heroes.
'It looked inevitable': How the NSW border to Victoria was closed
By Tom Rabe and Rachel Clun
A week before it was announced Melbourne would be thrust back into lockdown amid a second wave of coronavirus, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian already knew a hard border between the two states was becoming inevitable.
Berejiklian and her most senior ministers were considering how to implement the mammoth logistical operation in late June, with the jarring social and economic impacts of the measure seen as necessary short-term pain to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19 further north.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard, Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant.Credit:Nick Moir
Authorities hope that decision, made on Monday and enforced from Wednesday, will keep NSW sheltered from the worst impacts of the Victorian outbreak which has now seen the highest daily total of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country since the pandemic began.
Health experts had been seriously concerned about the inevitable prospect of people infected with the virus travelling across the border - to Albury, regional towns and ultimately Sydney - and unwittingly seeding outbreaks across the country.
Pop-up testing available at south-west Sydney hotel after two cases emerge
By Natassia Chrysanthos
People who visited the Crossroads Hotel in Casula, in south-west Sydney, last Friday night should self-isolate and be on high-alert coronavirus symptoms after two patrons tested positive this week.
A woman from south-west Sydney and a man from the Blue Mountains both attended the venue independently on July 3 and have since been diagnosed with COVID-19.
A pop-up testing clinic was set up in the hotel car park last night, and will re-open at 10am this morning for anyone in the area who needs to get tested.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant last night urged anyone who visited the Crossroads Hotel Friday 3 July to self-isolate, monitor for symptoms and come forward for testing immediately if they develop even the mildest of symptoms.
NSW Health is working with the hotel owners to identify and contact people who were at the hotel that evening, and the venue has been closed for deep cleaning.
The Sydney Local Health District is also contacting 77 patients who were swabbed at the Rozelle drive-through clinic on Tuesday, after their test results were not processed.
The health district and NSW Health Pathology said they “apologise sincerely for the inconvenience and concern caused to those patients” and asked those people to be re-tested.
People in Rozelle and Balmain were advised to get tested after a Balmain Woolworths worker was diagnosed with COVID-19 and worked for two days after arriving in Sydney from Melbourne.
Dr Chant said the cases emphasised the importance of being tested in the earliest stages of symptoms or if you have recently been in a high-risk area.
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