This morning's press coronavirus conferences
Here is the timetable for this morning's press conferences, all of which we will be livestreaming here in the blog:
10am: Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young and Deputy Premier and Health Minister Steven Miles in Brisbane.
10.30am: Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be holding a press conference with Secretary of the Department of Health Professor Brendan Murphy.
11am: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty will be giving the state's daily coronavirus update.
11am: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
11am: Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner will release the territory's COVID-19 financial report
As far as I know, a time hasn't been announced for Victoria's daily update at this stage. Once a time is confirmed I will update this post.
I will post the video feeds in the blog closer to the time as well.
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Watch live: Press conference with Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young
A press conference with Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young is due to start at 10am. You can watch it live below:
Staff at St Basil's Home for the Aged in Melbourne's north ordered to leave facility over coronavirus infection fears
By Tom Cowie
All staff at St Basil's Homes for the Aged in Fawkner were ordered out of the facility by the Victorian Health Department, creating an "urgent situation" ensuring that residents were given care.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt told 3AW's Neil Mitchell that the facility was left without staff after infections among workers made it too difficult to determine who should be isolated.
Mr Hunt said the decision was made late at night, however he did not know if residents were left alone while new staff were brought in.
"There was an urgent call. What we did was moved very quickly, we made sure that the Chief Nursing Officer, who's been working down here assisting the Victorians, was on-site... and we pulled together support staff," he said.
Health Minister Greg HuntCredit:
Alison McMillan, the federal government's Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, earlier told ABC Radio National that she had "considerable concerns" about the care given to residents at St Basil's.
There have been reports from family members of residents not being fed and faeces left in beds at the facility.
Mr Hunt said that the Victorian government had agreed that there would be transition plans at aged care homes where significant numbers of staff were infected or forced to isolate.
This morning's press coronavirus conferences
Here is the timetable for this morning's press conferences, all of which we will be livestreaming here in the blog:
10am: Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young and Deputy Premier and Health Minister Steven Miles in Brisbane.
10.30am: Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be holding a press conference with Secretary of the Department of Health Professor Brendan Murphy.
11am: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty will be giving the state's daily coronavirus update.
11am: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
11am: Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner will release the territory's COVID-19 financial report
As far as I know, a time hasn't been announced for Victoria's daily update at this stage. Once a time is confirmed I will update this post.
I will post the video feeds in the blog closer to the time as well.
ADF nurses deployed to nursing home in Melbourne's north
By Tom Cowie
Six Australian Defence Force nurses have been deployed to a nursing home in Melbourne's north, with a further 40 to be deployed across the troubled aged care sector.
Brigadier Matt Burr, who is heading up the COVID-19 response, told 3AW's Neil Mitchell that ADF clinicians had been working in testing sites across Victoria prior to the explosion of cases in aged care homes.
There are currently 1500 ADF personnel deployed in Victoria, including 100 assisting in contract tracing and others manning lockdown checkpoints.
Two members of the ADF at a testing facility have contracted the virus. One of those was symptomatic, another was a close contact who later tested positive.
"It's very much an evolving situation and challenge for all the members of the ADF," he said.
Customers notified after Sydney nail salon worker tests positive
By Mary Ward
Attendees at a nail salon in Sydney's south have been contacted after it was confirmed an employee at the store tested positive to COVID-19.
The woman worked at Professionail, within Westfield Hurstville, on July 22 and 23, Dr Vicky Sheppeard, deputy director of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District's public health unit said.
All close contacts of the case have been identified and directed to self-isolate for 14 days. Casual contacts have also been identified and told to monitor for symptoms.
Dr Sheppeard said there was no broader risk for people who visited Westfield Hurstville, and the business has conducted a deep clean.
The case has been associated with the south-west Sydney funeral cluster.
Queensland Health 'doing precisely what needs to be done' after COVID-19 case closes school
By Toby Crockford
Queensland health officials are doing "what needs to be done" after an employee at a school in Brisbane tested positive for coronavirus, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth has said.
The female employee at a Logan private school, south of Brisbane, tested positive late on Tuesday and was ordered into isolation while her school, Parklands Christian College, was closed for cleaning on Wednesday.
"My take is that [the] Queensland Public Health Unit are doing precisely what needs to be done," Dr Coatsworth said.
"The fact that it's [the school] been closed, that a deep clean is being undergone, that there will be extensive testing and contact-tracing is straight out of the playbook.
"Of course, one case is not a chain [of transmission] and hopefully we'll be able to get that under control as soon as possible.
"And we can see exactly the results of that in New South Wales where there are small numbers of cases every day, but they seem to be keeping it under control with only one or two unlinked chains of transmission."
Dr Coatsworth said he was aware Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young were constantly looking at whether the interstate borders needed to be closed once again.
"What we have seen is that we need to restrict movement across the country when there are large amounts of COVID-19 in certain parts of it," he said.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer hopeful about COVID-19 outbreaks at aged care homes being brought under control
By Mary Ward
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth has said he remains hopeful about coronavirus outbreaks in aged care facilities in Victoria being brought under control.
It comes as greater federal support is brought in to close a "leadership gap" and regular staff complete their self-isolation periods at some of the state's worst-affected sites.
"It is a large task, it is an enormous task, but we're getting some results there," he told ABC's News Breakfast this morning.
"When we talk about residential aged care facilities, these are the homes of these Australians, these Victorians, and we should do our best to be able to care for them in their homes, in those facilities," Dr Coatsworth said.
Ambulances outside St Basil's Home for the Aged in Fawkner where there has been a large COVID-19 outbreak.Credit:Paul Jeffers
"But where that is not possible, then we do have other options to make sure that they are cared for to the standard that we, Alison (McMillan, the federal government's Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer) and I, expect."
There are currently 769 active cases of coronavirus across more than 80 Victorian aged care facilities.
"Our mortality rates have been somewhat less than the international average, but that is not going to be of too much comfort to someone who has an elderly-affected relative," Dr Coatsworth said.
"So the key here is for us to get these outbreaks under control as quick as possible and that means across Victoria, in the residential aged care sector, but [it also means] in the community."
Jobs fall and women bear the brunt as virus hits Melbourne and Sydney
By Shane Wright
The lockdown of Melbourne and growing concern about coronavirus outbreaks in Sydney are leading to fresh job losses and tumbling consumer confidence with women bearing the brunt of the economic hit.
Payroll jobs as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics dropped by 0.6 per cent nationally in the week between July 4 and 11 as Victoria started to introduce suburb-by-suburb lockdowns to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Melbourne's usually bustling Bourke Street Mall at a standstill.Credit:Bloomberg
Victoria suffered a much larger drop, with payroll jobs down by 1.4 per cent in the week to be 2.2 per cent lower since the middle of June. The bureau said total payroll jobs were down by 7.3 per cent in the state since the middle of March, the worst of any state or territory.
Payrolls also fell in NSW by 0.7 per cent between July 4 and 11 after a 0.3 per cent in the previous survey covering late June. Jobs are down by 5.3 per cent since mid-March.
Meat industry COVID-19 cases surge in Victoria as union warns against shutdown
By Ben Schneiders and Benjamin Preiss
The crisis in Victoria’s meat industry has worsened with another day of sharply rising new coronavirus cases, as the meat union warned a shutdown of the industry could cause shortages and prompt panic buying.
Infections connected to meatworks have become the second-biggest public health problem in the state after aged care centres, with a combined 32 new cases on Tuesday linked to the four largest outbreaks.
The JBS site has been linked to a major COVID-19 cluster.Credit:Joe Armao
However, the Cattle Council of Australia sought to reassure consumers there would be no shortages of beef at butcheries and supermarkets despite the second surge of infections in Victoria. The council’s president, Tony Hegarty, said the industry had introduced "solid practices" to continue supplying domestic and international markets.
"When plants have shut down, our industry partners in the processing sector have enacted strict protocols to effectively isolate the problem, stopping further spread of the virus," he said.
Clusters at plants linked to Bertocchi, JBS and Somerville Retail Services in Melbourne’s north and west and the Australian Lamb Company in Colac have followed a pattern set overseas where meatworks have become a significant source of COVID-19 cases. The new cases follow an earlier large outbreak at Cedar Meats.
Andrews' comments on aged care were 'really unfortunate': Colbeck
By Mary Ward
Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck has said he did not agree with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' criticism of the aged care sector on Tuesday, after he said he would not be happy to have his mother in an aged care facility in the state.
"The comments yesterday, I think, were really unfortunate," Mr Colbeck told Today this morning.
"They didn't reflect properly the aged-care sector more broadly, and the problem is that we're all fighting this virus together. It's not us versus them, Victoria versus the Commonwealth; in this sense, it's all of us versus the virus."
Minister for Aged Care Richard ColbeckCredit:Alex Ellinghausen
Mr Colbeck said the federal government and Victorian government had a shared responsibility for the situation in aged care facilities in Victoria. There are now cases in more than 80 facilities.
He said he supported the Victorian government's decision to suspend elective surgeries, and denied the federal government was sending in AUSMAT medics too late, citing other forms of federal assistance.
"Military people have been assisting us for a period of time," he said. "We had some ADF nurses working in Victoria assisting with testing. We called on them earlier in the week and they went into one of the aged care facilities and they did a brilliant job. They saved the day."
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