'This is not over': The key points from Daniel Andrews' press conference
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton just wrapped up their press conference. Here are the key points:
- The NSW-Victoria border will close at 11.59pm on Tuesday. It will be enforced on the NSW side of the border. Victorians will require a permit to enter NSW and there will be special permissions for border communities such as Albury-Wodonga.
- A Victorian man in his 90s has died of coronavirus. No further details about the man are known.
- Victoria has recorded 127 new cases in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the state's highest ever daily case increase. Thirty-four were linked to known outbreaks, 40 were discovered through routine testing and 53 are being investigated.
- Of those cases, 16 were in the nine locked-down public housing towers in Melbourne's inner north. Mr Andrews admitted it was possible the lockdown would last longer than the five days flagged on Saturday, after residents received a document which indicated it could be in place for a fortnight.
- NSW is currently conducting 2000 tests a day for Victoria, after the state recorded more than 50,000 tests over the weekend. This number may be increased, with Mr Andrews saying he is grateful for all of the interstate support he has received.
- Mr Andrews told Victorians he and his team of thousands can not stop the spread alone, imploring people to abide by stay at home orders and practice social distancing or else every postcode will be in lockdown. "For some, stop pretending this is over; this is not over, it is far from over," he said.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, will be addressing the media at 12pm alongside NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller.
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Free legal advice for Melbourne tower residents in lockdown
By Tammy Mills
Melbourne community legal centres have set up a dedicated phone number for tower residents in lockdown who need legal information and advice.
Inner Melbourne Community Legal established the hotline with the help of other community legal centres and Victoria Legal Aid.
Residents can call 1800 113 432 from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday.
Inner Melbourne Community Legal chief executive Damian Stock said he was extremely alarmed at the unprecedented impacted on the liberty of public housing residents and lawyers were assessing the proportionality of the response to the health crisis.
"We will monitor this closely and provide legal help to any residents experiencing issues with police or to anyone issued with a fine," Mr Stock said.
Police in NSW's south not told about border management role
By Sally Rawsthorne
Senior police in the state's south say they learned of the decision to close borders – and their roles in it – from the news on Monday morning.
The Sydney Morning Herald has been told the operation will be run on a "state level", with implementation on a local level using specially designated staff from Sydney and local area commands to enforce the border's closure, which will come into effect on Tuesday night.
"We are going to be given support, we think," one senior officer said on Monday.
"We don't have the resources in our command for the operation, so we are of the understanding that we will be given support."
Speaking at his press conference earlier this morning, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the closure would be policed on the NSW side of the border, which has more than 50 crossings, due to resourcing strain on the Victorian force.
'This is not over': The key points from Daniel Andrews' press conference
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton just wrapped up their press conference. Here are the key points:
- The NSW-Victoria border will close at 11.59pm on Tuesday. It will be enforced on the NSW side of the border. Victorians will require a permit to enter NSW and there will be special permissions for border communities such as Albury-Wodonga.
- A Victorian man in his 90s has died of coronavirus. No further details about the man are known.
- Victoria has recorded 127 new cases in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the state's highest ever daily case increase. Thirty-four were linked to known outbreaks, 40 were discovered through routine testing and 53 are being investigated.
- Of those cases, 16 were in the nine locked-down public housing towers in Melbourne's inner north. Mr Andrews admitted it was possible the lockdown would last longer than the five days flagged on Saturday, after residents received a document which indicated it could be in place for a fortnight.
- NSW is currently conducting 2000 tests a day for Victoria, after the state recorded more than 50,000 tests over the weekend. This number may be increased, with Mr Andrews saying he is grateful for all of the interstate support he has received.
- Mr Andrews told Victorians he and his team of thousands can not stop the spread alone, imploring people to abide by stay at home orders and practice social distancing or else every postcode will be in lockdown. "For some, stop pretending this is over; this is not over, it is far from over," he said.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, will be addressing the media at 12pm alongside NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller.
Job ads soar by record 42 per cent
By Shane Wright
The keenly watched ANZ measure of job ads soared by a record 42 per cent in June as the economy was re-opened from many of its coronavirus restrictions, but the jobs market is still a long way from recovery.
The ANZ said the jump in June saw total ads lift by 26,380. It dwarfed the previous one-month increase of 17.7 per cent recorded in February 2010.
Despite the lift, ads are still 41 per cent or 61,671 down on where they stood in February before social distancing rules were put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
ANZ senior economist Catherine Birch said there had been solid week-on-week increases through June as the economy reopened.
But Ms Birch cautioned that the recovery in ads would slow.
"After an initial bounce, we expect the recovery will be a lot slower," she said.
"There have been a number of recent large-scale lay-offs announced across a wide range of sectors, including travel, retail, media, consulting, and education."
Ms Birch said the increase in COVID-19 cases in Melbourne and the return of lockdowns there posed a growing risk to the pace and timing of the recovery in employment.
The ANZ report follows new forecasts from Deloitte Access Economics which on Monday predicted a lift in the general economy out of the virus would not be accompanied by a surge in employment or wages.
Andrews admits tower lockdown could last longer than five days
By Craig Butt
Premier Daniel Andrews has addressed concerns the hard lockdown of the public housing towers in Melbourne’s north would last up to a fortnight.
On Saturday he said the lockdown would last for “at least five days” but a document given to residents of the buildings stated residents would be detained for an initial detention period of 14 days.
The Premier said the document was written in such a way so people were aware of their legal rights and apologised for any distress caused by the way it was worded.
“The order was made for 14 days but it can be rescinded earlier than that,” he said.
He urged residents of the towers to be tested for coronavirus.
“Once all 3000 residents are tested, we will have more options based on data and hopefully that means we can have a different set of rules [to the] very hard lockdown that we have put in place on health advice to protect those residents, many of whom are amongst the most vulnerable in our Victorian community.”
The Premier asked residents to remember that staff were doing the "very best they can" under unprecedented circumstances.
Case rate a concern, but also shows high testing: Victorian CMO
By Craig Butt
Victoria’s record increase of 127 new daily cases is a concern but also reflects high testing rates, the state’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has said.
“Nobody wants to see it but we do have a very clear picture on a daily basis with the test numbers we are doing,” he said.
“We are increasingly seeing [new cases] in outbreaks … we know where they occur and we know how to manage and control them.”
Professor Sutton said levels of community transmission – where the infection cannot be traced to a known case – were at "reasonably low" levels, with 13 new infections linked to community transmission today.
Last week, there were often increases of 20-30 community transmission cases per day.
Keep in mind it often takes the health department several days to carry out investigations into transmission sources so it is not the case that 13 of the 127 new cases were from community transmission.
No new cases in Queensland as nightclubs reopen
By Toby Crockford
There have been no new COVID-19 cases in Queensland since since the reopening of nightclubs and strip clubs on Friday night.
On Monday, there was just one active case remaining, with almost 400,000 tests conducted and 1067 total cases since the pandemic reached Queensland.
State Treasurer Cameron Dick said after Queensland "smashed the curve" the state government has its "shoulders to the wheel" to recover the debt-riddled economy.
"The coronavirus remains a very significant problem for the world and the world's economy," he said.
"These are dangerous and difficult times for our economy. In two months our state lost 169,000 jobs, that is 169,000 Queenslanders who need to get back to work."
Mr Dick said the government had dished out almost $1 billion in loans to support about 7000 small businesses.
About 10,000 people flooded Brisbane's Fortitude Valley as nightclubs opened for the first time in months on Friday, with some ignoring Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's social distancing and no dancing rules.
Sixteen new cases in locked-down Melbourne towers
By Craig Butt
Of the 127 new coronavirus cases recorded in Victoria today, 16 were amongst residents of locked-down public housing towers in Melbourne’s inner north.
There have now been 53 cases recorded in the nine towers in North Melbourne and Kensington, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said.
Yesterday there were 27 cases associated with the towers.
A further 10 cases from previous days have now been linked to the buildings, the state’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said.
That means the number of known cases in the towers has almost doubled since yesterday.
“We expect that number to continue to grow,” Mr Andrews said, expressing an aim to get everyone in the towers tested for coronavirus.
Nine public housing buildings that are home to about 3000 residents have been locked down in Flemington and North Melbourne.
The restrictions on the residents of these buildings are tighter than the stay-at-home orders in place in 12 Melbourne postcodes, where people can only leave to go to work or study, to provide care, to buy groceries or to get exercise.
Residents of the buildings have been told they are not allowed to leave their homes and police have been stationed in the area to enforce the lockdown.
Permit needed to enter NSW from Victoria in jointly decided border closure
By Craig Butt
The closure of Victoria’s border with NSW was a decision made jointly by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
“From 11.59pm, midnight, tomorrow night, the border with NSW will be closed,” Mr Andrews told reporters on Monday.
“We have – all of us – agreed that the best thing to do is to close the border," he added.
"That closure will be enforced on the NSW side, so as not to be a drain on resources that are very much focused on fighting the virus right now across our state.”
Mr Andrews said there would be more detailed information released on the border closure by NSW later today and there would be a way for people in border towns such as Albury-Wodonga to carry out daily activities.
Victorians will require a permit to enter NSW, he said.
Ms Berejiklian will be addressing the media at 12pm.
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Man in his 90s becomes Australia's 105th coronavirus death
By Craig Butt
A man in his 90s has become the 21st person in Victoria to die of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed.
Mr Andrews expressed his condolences to the man’s family.
He is the 105th person to die of coronavirus in Australia.
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