Summary
- Victoria will aim for a lower number of new cases after recording 113 new coronavirus cases and 12 deaths on Friday.
- NSW recorded 13 new cases on Friday and Premier Gladys Berejiklian has asked people to keep up social distancing this weekend with warm weather expected.
- Queensland reported three new cases on Friday with all connected to the Queensland Corrective Services Academy.
- Victoria's hotel quarantine program cost the $130 million and infected the state.
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Speed limits on Melbourne's 'little' city streets cut down
By Ashleigh McMillan
Speed limits will be cut in half along some of Melbourne’s iconic ‘little’ city streets to increase pedestrian safety when social distancing.
Little Collins, Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets will have speed limits dropped from 40 kilometres per hour to 20 kilometres per hour over the coming weeks.
Flinders Lane will be the first street slowed down as part of the new measures, with speed limits reduced on the Spring Street end from Monday.
Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Sally Capp said this was the first measure to create more space for shoppers and diners to reinvigorate the city, with “people walking will be prioritised over motorists and cyclists”.
“Many of our footpaths are less than two metres wide, so there’s not enough space for people to pass each other safely while maintaining physical distance,” Cr Capp said.
“The changes will ease footpath congestion as people safely return to the city.”
The council said in a statement the current average vehicle speeds along the east to west streets were around 20 to 30 kilometres per hour, and the changes were “not expected” to impact drivers’ travel time.
Shared zone icons painted on the roads will be jazzed up in the process and will depict figures working and shopping across the city.
Victorian CHO says a 'shared bubble' for those living alone is under consideration
By Ashleigh McMillan
Health authorities are considering measures to allow single people living alone to visit other households.
Almost 18,000 people have signed a petition calling for Victoria's lockdown measures to be amended and allow people living alone to have a nominated friend be able visit them.
While those with 'intimate partners' are able to travel and see their significant other during stage four lockdown, there is no allowance for those living alone without a romantic partner to have any visitors.
In response to a Twitter user asking about a ‘household bubble’, Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton said singles were in a “really hard” situation during the pandemic.
“(The shared bubble is) being talked through and under active consideration,” he said on Friday night.
During New Zealand’s lockdown, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern allowed singles to ‘buddy up’ with another person living alone and visit them for support and companionship.
Fears NSW cases will continue to rise as people delay self-isolation
By Kate Aubusson
NSW Health has strongly advised all people who live or work in greater Sydney or the Central Coast to refrain from visiting aged care facilities for 14 days as cases continue to rise.
The state is set to record double-figure increases in COVID-19 cases in coming days amid growing fears about a cluster in one of Sydney's oldest clubs and new data revealing half of those who have tested positive took three days to self-isolate.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned people who delayed getting tested and self-isolating despite having coronavirus symptoms were dramatically raising the risk of infecting loved ones and the community.
NSW recorded 13 new coronavirus cases from 30,282 tests in the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday, making it the first double-digit increase in COVID-19 cases in the state in more than a fortnight. The new cases included six people linked to a cluster at the City Tattersalls Club, taking the number of infections associated with that venue to 14.
The new cases also included four mystery locally acquired ones, two close contacts of previously reported cases not linked to clusters and one person in hotel quarantine.
Victorian coroner investigates Australia's youngest COVID death
By Melissa Cunningham
A coronial investigation is under way into the cause of death of a COVID-19-positive Victorian man in his 20s widely reported to be the youngest Australian to succumb to the virus.
The review into the man's cause of death has raised important questions about how Australia classifies coronavirus fatalities and comes as 113 new infections were recorded in Victoria in the past day.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Credit:AP
The state's death toll climbed to 496, with 12 more deaths, all linked to aged care outbreaks.
Almost two weeks after the young's man death was reported on August 14, it is yet to be included in the national coronavirus fatalities tally.
At the time of the man's death, Premier Daniel Andrews would not speculate on whether the man died of or with coronavirus, but he floated the prospect that the Victorian coroner may investigate it.
India's COVID-19 outbreak is now the world's fastest-growing
New Delhi: India now has the fastest-growing coronavirus caseload of any country in the world, reporting more than 75,000 new infections per day.
Crowded cities, lockdown fatigue and a lack of contact tracing have spread COVID-19 to every corner of the country of 1.3 billion people. This week, authorities said that one-sixth of a tiny tribe on a remote, coral-fringed island had come down with the virus.
A health care worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India.Credit:AP
Health experts say the virus reproduction rate is ticking up as more state governments, desperate to stimulate an ailing economy, are loosening lockdown restrictions, which is spreading the virus further.
"Everything right now is indicating toward a massive surge in the caseload in coming days," said Dr Anant Bhan, a health researcher at Melaka Manipal Medical College in southern India. "What is more worrying is we are inching toward the No.1 spot globally."
COVID conspiracy theorists declare 'digital warfare' on media
By Noel Towell
COVID-19 conspiracy theorists have launched an orchestrated online attack, dubbed “digital warfare”, aimed at shutting down aspects of the mainstream media's reporting of the coronavirus crisis.
A co-ordinated spam attack on The Age’s Facebook page on Thursday forced the removal of an article, about suicide rates during the pandemic, after the page was flooded with thousands of comments including threats, abuse, defamation and conspiracy theory material.
The article reported on information from the Victorian Coroner that showed there had been no increase in suicides in 2020 compared with the previous year, despite the mental health challenges of the pandemic.
The attacks prompted a senior editor at Nine, owner of The Age, to accuse Facebook of "providing a safe space for nutters".
Hotel quarantine cost Victoria $130 million and still infected the state
By Richard Baker
Victoria’s hotel quarantine program was $24.3 million over budget by mid-June, with senior government officials attributing much of the blowout to the decision to use private security instead of Australian Defence Force personnel.
Internal government emails tendered in evidence at the board of inquiry into hotel quarantine show the Victorian government’s contentious decision to use security guards rather than defence force personnel at COVID-19 quarantine hotels cost taxpayers millions of dollars and delivered windfall profits to the owners of security companies.
Rydges on Swanston hotel, a major source of Victoria's second-wave COVID-19 cases.Credit:Penny Stephens
“Both Queensland and NSW have enlisted the help of the ADF, which would have significantly decreased expenditure on security,” a Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions official wrote in an email to colleagues. The official’s name has been redacted.
The emails show Victoria’s spending on quarantine was forecast to reach $130 million by the end of June compared to NSW's $50 million and Queensland’s $19 million. However, the DJPR's own breakdown of spending said it did not know what was included in the Queensland and NSW figures, and whether they took into account that the Commonwealth was splitting costs approximately 50-50 with the states.
Good morning all!
By Roy Ward
G'day everyone! It's Roy Ward here and I'll be running the live blog for this lovely Saturday.
I hope you are all well today. We expect to have plenty of COVID-19 developments to come.
As always you can leave a comment on the blog or shoot me a tweet at @rpjward on Twitter.
Let's get started.
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