Watch: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jenny Mikakos give a COVID-19 update
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jenny Mikakos are scheduled to give a COVID-19 update at 11am AEST.
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'Feeling anxious': Second peak puts COVID-19 survival rates under threat
By Aisha Dow
Australia's gravely ill coronavirus patients have among the best survival rates in the world, but this record could come under threat as Victorian hospitals brace for new arrivals as infections escalate.
The death rate was about 23 per cent for those who ended up on life support through mechanical ventilation in the first part of the pandemic in Australia in March, according to data collected by the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.
Professor Andrew Udy and Professor David Pilcher are keeping a close on on Australia's coronavirus hospital admissions.Credit:Penny Stephens
It is a record that compares favourably with anywhere in the world.
Death rates for patients on a mechanical ventilator in some countries has been reported as high as 60 per cent or more.
However, doctors are cautioning that Australia has been "lucky" so far because the nation has not had to deal with overwhelming numbers of critically ill patients seen elsewhere, in places like the US, Brazil and Britain.
Watch: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jenny Mikakos give a COVID-19 update
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jenny Mikakos are scheduled to give a COVID-19 update at 11am AEST.
'COVID normal': Daniel Andrews feels the heat over a crisis without end
By Michael Bachelard
As Scott Morrison announced the national easing of coronavirus restrictions and released his “Three-step roadmap to a COVID-safe Australia” way back on May 7, Daniel Andrews had a typically no-nonsense response.
It would be “almost unbearable,” the Victorian Premier said, if businesses burnt through their savings to reopen but were subsequently forced to close their doors a second time. Opening up should happen “properly and once”.
At midnight on Wednesday, the almost unbearable happened. Melbourne locked down for the second time. "This is binary. It is life and death," Andrews said announcing the change in policy.
Soldiers and Victoria police on a roadside checkpoint on the Geelong Freeway enforcing lockdown in Melbourne on Friday.Credit:Jason South
Hours before the deadline, lines of cars snaked kilometres out of Melbourne as the wealthy escaped to their holiday houses.
On Elizabeth Street in Melbourne’s central spine, city dwellers and students spilled out of their apartments onto the streets, taking to the plethora of restaurants for one final eat-in experience before the doors closed for six long weeks, or more.
'A little joy in our lives': caught in the crosshairs, love still wins
By Caroline Zielinski
In January, Kathryn Licata and her fiance Martin were preparing for a wedding with more than 100 guests. Then COVID-19 arrived, and the couple had to do what so many others planning to marry this year were forced to: cut their guest list to the bare bones, or postpone to next year.
“After COVID hit in March, we initially had to go down to five people, and then lifted it to 20 once the restrictions eased,” Ms Licata says.
Kathryn and fiance Martin are due to get married on August 29 in Melbourne. Credit:Wayne Taylor
“But as of Tuesday, we’re again looking at five people, which means having to choose between having my sister as a witness, being walked down the aisle by my dad, or having a photographer during the ceremony.”
Despite their wedding not being until August 29, the couple is erring on the side of caution after being caught in the crosshairs of an ever-changing state of laws.
“Even though we have a 10-day window after lockdown, I’m still basing my wedding on five people,” the 31-year old Melburnian says.
“This means a small celebration with people viewing via Zoom if they want to, and a bigger reception in 2021.”
Sydney pub cluster revealed as Victorian infections soar
By Kate Aubusson
A new coronavirus cluster has been traced to a popular pub in south-west Sydney and a man has tested positive after driving a caravan from Melbourne, prompting the NSW Health Minister to urge anyone from Victoria to return home immediately.
As Victoria on Friday reported 288 cases, its biggest single-day increase in COVID-19 infections, and the national cabinet announced a clampdown on international arrivals, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard reported a Victorian in his 20s had set up his temporary home in a Sydney caravan park.
People get checked for coronavirus outside the Crossroads Hotel at Casula on Friday night.Credit:Brook Mitchell
Mr Hazzard also revealed the Crossroads Hotel in Casula has been ordered to close after two people who tested positive for COVID-19 attended the pub separately one night.
The Crossroads Hotel is the only common link between a COVID-positive 30-year-old woman and a man in his 50s.
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.
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