Summary
- Lockdown restrictions have now come into effect in 10 Melbourne postcodes that have been identified as coronavirus hotspots. Stay-at-home orders are in place for people who live in postcodes 3012, 3021, 3032, 3038, 3042, 3046, 3047, 3055, 3060 and 3064.
- NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said she is considering road checkpoints and extra screening at Sydney Airport to keep Melburnians from hotspot areas out of her state. Melburnians from hotspot suburbs have been banned from entering New South Wales.
- Victoria recorded 73 new cases on Wednesday, bringing to 370 the number of active cases in the state. The rate of transmission by unknown causes – 20 new cases – is the highest it has been since the pandemic reached the state.
- A "hot" hotel that is home to dozens of returned travellers with a coronavirus infection remains under the guard of private security contractors, despite Premier Daniel Andrews ordering an inquiry into bungled practices by private guards at quarantine hotels.
- The Northern Territory has recorded its first coronavirus case for almost three months, with a Darwin man who recently returned from Melbourne testing positive for COVID-19.
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Victoria records 77 new coronavirus cases and biggest single-day increase in community transmission
By Mathew Dunckley
There are 77 new cases of coronavirus in Victoria, the state's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has announced.
Five previous cases were removed from the tally, meaning there has been a net increase of 72 since yesterday.
"There are now 332 total cumulative cases with an unknown source that indicate community transmission," he said.
This increase of 31 marks the biggest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic, beating yesterday's increase of 20 new cases of community transmission.
Professor Sutton said there were now 415 active cases in Victoria, an increase of 45.
-With Craig Butt
Watch live: Coronavirus update for Victoria
Victoria's daily coronavirus update is under way in Melbourne, with the state's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton providing the latest numbers at 11am.
'Licence please': coronavirus postcode lockdown begins. Are you affected?
By Rachael Dexter and Paul Sakkal
Residents in Melbourne's hotspots have had a first taste of life under postcode lockdown, as Victoria Police open booze-bus style road stops on the first day of enforcement.
Stay-at-home orders are now in place for people who live in 10 postcodes across Melbourne's north and west.
Police begin day one of postcode lockdown enforcement in hotspot suburbs around Melbourne.Credit:Chris Hopkins
The Victorian state government has said people from these areas should leave home only to provide care, to work or study, to get exercise or to buy groceries.
Wissam Elkassar, who was stopped and checked heading to work in Pascoe Vale, said the process was painless but he would not want to go through it every day.
"When you're used to the freedom, of course not. [But] I guess it's gotta be done, we're not used to it obviously," he said.
Mr Elkassar said the mood was muted in his home suburb which has been sent back into stage three lockdown.
"You can't see your family any more, your friends, it's getting harder but I think they're doing the right thing," he said.
Victoria's daily coronavirus update will be at 11am
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton will be providing the state's coronavirus update at 11am this morning. It goes without saying that we will be livestreaming this one in the blog and I will post the video closer to the time.
I wanted to put in a post about the time of the update, since the time of the daily update in Victoria has varied a fair bit this week.
For three days in a row now, the state has recorded more than 50 new cases each day.
And yesterday marked the largest single-day increase in community transmission in Victoria since the start of the pandemic, with 20 new infections that could be traced to an existing case, bringing the running total to 301.
Watch: Press Conference on Northern Territory man who has tested positive for COVID-19
Northern Territory Health Minister Natasha Fyles said a Darwin man has tested positive for coronavirus. He had returned to Australia from overseas and quarantined at a Melbourne hotel, but once the two weeks was up he visited family in Melbourne before flying back to the Northern Territory.
Northern Territory records case in returned traveller from Melbourne
By Mary Ward
The Northern Territory has recorded a fresh coronavirus case in a returned overseas traveller who stayed in a Melbourne hotspot after completing his hotel quarantine.
The man, who is in his 30s, had completed his fortnight of isolation when he stayed for a couple of days with family in Melbourne. He then flew home to Darwin on Qantas flight QF836 via Brisbane.
"[The man] arrived in Darwin on Monday starting to feel unwell and [was] tested and those results came through last night," Health Minister Natasha Fyles told reporters this morning.
He is now staying in isolation at Royal Darwin Hospital.
"This individual has followed all the precautions and we wish them all the best," Ms Fyles said, adding that she wanted to reassure Territorians the man has had "minimal contact with the broader community".
"I understand that this person lives by themselves and so they had followed all the rules and gone from the airport to their home and had no contact with the community since then.
"Obviously there's minimal contact in terms of the people on those flights and that tracing is now underway."
Victorian and Queensland health authorities will be working to determine whether the man contracted the virus during his time in Melbourne, on the flight or while overseas, Ms Fyles said.
The Northern Territory last recorded a locally acquired coronavirus case on April 6. The man becomes the 30th person to test positive for coronavirus in the Northern Territory.
Global tourism stands to lose up to $4.8 trillion from COVID-19, UN says
By Emma Farge
Global tourism revenues are expected to fall by up to $US3.3 trillion ($4.8 trillion) due to COVID-19 restrictions, with the United States standing to lose the most, according to a UN study published on Wednesday.
The 'COVID-19 and Tourism' report released by The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is based on three scenarios for the industry, with lockdown measures lasting four months, eight months and 12 months.
In those scenarios, revenues would fall $US1.17 trillion, $US2.22 trillion and $US3.3 trillion respectively or between 1.5 per cent and 4.2 per cent of the world's gross domestic product (GDP).
The United States stands to lose the most tourism revenue, a new UN report predicts. Credit:AP
Australia and New Zealand, viewed as one tourism region in the report, didn't feature among the 15 countries and regions likely to be hardest hit by coronavirus restrictions, with estimated losses of $US37 billion to $US108 billion in the worst-case scenario, or between 2 per cent and 6 per cent of their combined GDP.
Reuters
New Zealand's Health Minister resigns over COVID-19 response
New Zealand's Health Minister David Clark has resigned following recent slip-ups in the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It has become increasingly clear to me that my continuation in the role is distracting for the government's overall response to COVID-19 and the global pandemic," he said in a news conference in Parliament.
Mr Clark said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had accepted his resignation.
Reuters
Do you live in one of Melbourne's lockdown suburbs?
More than 311,000 people who live in the 10 postcodes in Melbourne's north and west have woken this morning to stricter lockdown measures aimed at halting Victoria's increasing spread of coronavirus.
People who live in postcodes 3012, 3021, 3032, 3038, 3042, 3046, 3047, 3055, 3060 and 3064 made up just over 5 per cent of the state's population as of the 2016 census.
From today until July 29, residents of these areas will only be able to leave the house for four reasons (to provide care, to go to work or school, to buy groceries or to get exercise) and police will be issuing on-the-spot fines to those who breach restrictions.
Those locked down include 4038 shop assistants who live in these postcodes, 2049 child carers, 1981 truck drivers and 1609 security guards, Australian Tax Office data obtained by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald shows.
Do you live in one of the lockdown suburbs? How are you dealing with the prospect of locking down for another month? Please get in touch if you would like to share your story or talk to an Age journalist about the lockdown:
Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated 3022 was one of the lockdown postcodes. This was a typo - the postcode locked down in 3032.
Watch live: Press conference with Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles
A press conference with Queensland Deputy Premier and Minister for Health Steven Miles is about to start at Townsville University Hospital.
You can watch it live below:
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