WATCH: Victorian Premier addresses the media
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and the state's new health minister, Martin Foley, are due to address the media at 10.30am.
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AMA warns of 'disaster' if WA ship cases enter community
Australian Medical Association Western Australia president Dr Andrew Miller has warned the state’s regional health services will not be able to cope if cases from a ship off the coast of Port Hedland enter the community.
The total confirmed cases associated with the vessel is now 17, after eight crew tested positive yesterday, Daile Cross reports. Seven of these are still on the ship as part of the essential crew, while 10 are in hotel quarantine.
The vessel remains at anchor off the coast of Port Hedland.Credit:vesselfinder.com
Dr Miller said it was not the first ship the state government had dealt with, but this was the first time sick people had been outside the metropolitan area where the major hospitals were nearby.
“We are into new territory here,” he said, adding some of the doctors in the town were not confident the health facilities there would be able to cope with critically ill patients with the highly contagious illness.
“It will be a disaster if COVID spreads into regional communities because that’s what’s happening all around the world,” Dr Miller said.
Microsoft outage causes strife for those working from home
By Rachael Dexter
If you're working remotely from home today and use Microsoft 365 you're probably not getting much work done this morning.
Microsoft is reporting a widespread issue with Microsoft 365 which is affecting Teams and Outlook Express email servers.
An online outage tracker shows the countries experiencing no access to Outlook Express at 10am AEST.Credit:downdetective.com
The company says it is rerouting traffic to "alternate infrastructure" while they investigate the problem.
We've put questions to the company about when users are likely to get access to emails and messaging again and will update you when we have more information.
Readers in favour of end to 5km rule
A couple of hours ago, we asked readers of this blog if they thought Melbourne's five-kilometre radius rule should be axed, after some epidemiologists said good hygiene, face masks, strict social distancing, gathering outdoors instead of indoors, and paid sick leave for workers were far more effective in preventing transmission.
After more than 8000 votes, the majority (62 per cent) said the rule, which prevents people from travelling more than five-kilometres from their home, should come to an end.
This week, changes were made to the rule in relation to exercise: as of yesterday, Melburnians can work out five-kilometres from their home or their workplace.
Interestingly, readers have been less keen on an early return to restaurant dining, as is being proposed by the Victorian industry today: after 4500 votes in the past hour, 58 per cent have said they want the current road map to reopening – allowing for takeaway and delivery services only until October 19 – to stay in place.
Victorian Premier to address the media at 10.30am
Majority of residents infected at Melbourne aged care facility
Victoria recorded seven more coronavirus deaths today. As Aisha Dow explains, the reason why the state's death rate remains so high compared with new cases is that many of these cases are still linked to aged care.
For example, an outbreak at Estia Health facility in Keilor Downs, in Melbourne’s north-west, has become Victoria’s largest active COVID-19 cluster after the coronavirus spread to 45 people linked with the facility, claimed three lives and put 20 residents in hospital.
More than 60 per cent of residents have been infected at the facility since the first case was detected on September 11.
While Victoria’s daily coronavirus count continues to fall, with just five new cases reported on Monday, about 30 aged care facilities are still reporting active infections, resulting in 23 deaths over the past week.
Australia 'very, very open' to accept NZ travellers by Christmas
By Rachael Dexter
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has revealed more detail on plans underway for a trans-Tasman travel bubble.
Asked this morning on Nine's Today show if it was likely to see the travel bans lifted between the two countries by Christmas, Mr Hunt replied: "Yes, we are very, very open and keen to work with New Zealand."
But there is a caveat to the plans – they would likely only be one-way in the first phases. "We are looking to allow New Zealanders into Australia, potentially in a travel bubble, as soon as possible. We're not requiring that New Zealand allows Australia back immediately, but they are working towards it," Mr Hunt said.
"So we'd like to be able to allow friends, family, tourists to come to Australia. We think that the situation in New Zealand is very safe.
"We understand they'd have to consider Australia's position, so we're happy to do it as a one-way to start but we would expect that given the numbers in Australia, New Zealand would be in a position to accept Australians shortly without having to quarantine."
Mr Hunt said he had met with the NZ Health Minister and High Commissioner last week to nut out further details for the plan before the NZ government goes into caretaker mode ahead of their election on October 17.
Hospitality industry serves up plan to put dining back on Melbourne's menu
By Chip Le Grand
Victoria's hospitality industry has delivered a detailed blueprint to the Andrews government for safe, post-lockdown dining in the hope that COVID-stricken cafes and restaurants will be allowed to open sooner than planned on October 19.
Under a regulatory framework being assessed by Victoria's health authorities, restaurants would keep the names and contact details of everyone they have served for 28 days, table condiments and shared plates would be off the menu and menus themselves would be laminated to meet the industry's “COVID-normal” standards.
Where possible, patrons would be greeted at one door and shown to a separate exit at the end of their meals. If they are showing any symptoms or refuse to wear a mask before they sit down, they would not be served at all.
The provisions are detailed in a 30-page plan that the industry association Restaurant & Catering has developed based on a COVID-safe model used in Queensland for the past four months.
NSW Premier to address the media at 12.30pm
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be stepping up to address the media at 12.30pm alongside Health Minister Brad Hazzard.
The pair will be in Goulburn to speak about the redevelopment of the town's hospital, but we are expecting that line-up will be fielding more than a few questions about the state's virus response – and when restrictions will next ease after a week with just one local infection.
NSW's daily case numbers are generally released about 11am.
Victoria moves closer to next stage target
As we just reported, Victoria has recorded 10 new coronavirus cases today.
For the state to move to its next stage of eased restrictions on October 19, the 14-day case average and number of mystery cases must both be under five. Craig Butt has updated his graphs to show how things are tracking:
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