Victoria will return to face-to-face learning at schools in a staggered process from next week, as the state records nine new cases overnight.
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By Michael Doyle
Restrictions in Auckland set to be lifted
All coronavirus restrictions are set to be lifted across New Zealand's biggest city later this week.
The country's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Auckland will join the rest of the country at alert level one on Wednesday.
She says there's now a 95 per cent probability that the cluster which broke out in the city has now been eliminated.
By Michael Doyle
NSW lifesavers are fine-tuning safety measures ahead of summer
New South Wales lifesavers say the warm weather across the holiday long weekend has provided a chance to fine-tune high-tech safety measures ahead of summer.
Beaches have been packed, but authorities say crowds have generally been well behaved and COVID 19 rules have been observed.
Joel Wiseman from New South Wales Surf Lifesaving says 21st century equipment is helping make beaches safer, both in and out of the water.
"Our drones are up in the air and we're providing numbers constantly back to our new state of the art ops centre, we've got cameras at over 40 locations across the state and we've got artificial intelligence into some of the CCTV cameras that actually does crowd counts," he said.
By Michael Doyle
Professor Sutton says it will be 'line ball' whether Melbourne makes the 14-day average threshold
Professor Sutton was asked whether he thought Melbourne would be able to get the 14-day rolling average below five cases per day before October 19.
This was the threshold needed to move to Step Three of eased restrictions.
Professor Sutton told reporters this morning it would be a very close call.
"My gut feel … it will be a line ball. Look, it's not a certain one way or the other," he said.
By Michael Doyle
Some of your comments from this morning
Michael the update on Dan Andrews' jacket is exceptional and I really do thank you for that. It's the news that i really didn't know that I needed.-Grateful and informed
It's very hard to overstate how absolutely devastating it will be if the 5km rule doesn't change in the next set of restrictions. For many of us that is the thing that has prevented us from seeing friends and family for more than three months. I don't know how much longer we can hold out. I want to cry just thinking about it.-MKM
I've followed the rules since March, and I'll keep following until they are gone, but I am so tired. Why can't they ease the 5k rule? Their roadmap said they would.... It doesn't make sense, to not ease that rule with the other things coming in at step 3......-Nancy
For the sanity of all those that live in the Melbourne Metro area lift the 5 KLM limit-Paul H
I’m just here to say that I’m following Brett Sutton’s beard progress with serious interest. How is he continuing to get even more handsome? What a delight.-Get on the beards
By Michael Doyle
Joe Biden tests negative to COVID-19
The campaign team for Democratic Presidential nominee, Joe Biden, say he has been tested for COVID-19 and received a negative result.
By Michael Doyle
ACT records zero new case of COVID-19
By Michael Doyle
The Victorian press conference has finished
The daily press conference from Victoria is finished.
Not all of the content was COVID-19 related, so I guess we learned something new today.
Here is a summary:
- There are 227 active case in Victoria
- There are nine new case, zero deaths
- Six cases are under investigation
- There is a further one mystery case, with the postcode of 3046 now added to the list
- On October 12, all Year 7 students will go back to school along with all primary school students, VCE, VCAL students and special schools.
- For Years 8, 9 and 10, they will return to face-to-face learning on October 26.
By Michael Doyle
Daniel Andrews ducks questions on his jacket
Premier Daniel Andrews was asked (in jest of course) about where his North Face Jacket has gone.
He has not worn it in a number of weeks.
The Premier says he has not given it a lot of thought.
Weather experts say Summer is hotter than Winter, so this could be bad news for the jacket in 2020.
There is no word about how the jacket feels about this snub.
By Michael Doyle
Things like music lessons, PE, extracurricular activities, after school activities will they be allowed when kids return next term?
Deputy Premier James Merlino said:
Things like camps obviously won't be allowed for metropolitan schools but things such as PE, school sports, those activity, yes, they will happen.
By Michael Doyle
New sites announced where positive cases visited
People who visited these areas have been encouraged to monitor their health:
- Leo Fine Food and Wine Supermarket on Summerhill Rd in Glen Iris from 12:00-2:20pm on September 26.
- Aldi on Ashley St in West Footscray on September 25
- White Line Tyres in Carrier Street, Benalla between 12:00-3:00pm on September 30.
By Michael Doyle
Professor Sutton could not confirm if the 5km rule would be ease in Step Three
Professor Sutton was unable to say whether or not the 5 kilometre radius rule would be scrapped for Melbourne in the next easing of restrictions.
By Michael Doyle
Queensland records zero new case of COVID-19
There are no new case of COVID-19 in Queensland.
The state still has six active cases.
By Michael Doyle
Doctor Stephen Corbett discusses the latest NSW COVID-19 case
By Michael Doyle
Professor Sutton says measures being established for bushfire preparation
Professor Sutton said work is being done to allow people from Melbourne to travel to region properties to prepare for the bushfire season.
"There will have to be bushfire prep in advance of the season," he said.
"That is being worked on at the moment. The communications and allowances for that are being worked through."
By Michael Doyle
There were 9,023 tests conducted in Victoria yesterday
HIi Michael! How many tests were recorded yesterday? Thank you!-yoyo
By Michael Doyle
Active cases in Victoria falls to 227
Many have asked how many active cases there are currently in Victoria.
That number is 227.
By Michael Doyle
Additional Victorian postcode added to list of mystery case areas
The one new mystery cases is associated to the postcode, 3046.
This covers Glenroy, Hadfield and Oak Park.
By Michael Doyle
NSW has one new case, no community transmission
There have been no locally acquired coronavirus cases found in NSW in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday.
It's the 10th consecutive day the state has recorded no locally acquired cases.
One case has been recorded in an overseas traveller in hotel quarantine.
Only 4,789 people were tested in the reporting period.
By Michael Doyle
How has the Chadstone case been able to spread its tentacles so far not just across the south-east but into the Mitchell Shire?
Professor Sutton answered a common question on the blog:
It does relate to the fact that any worker has family members and they can transmit to those family members when symptomatic but before they are symptomatic.Those family members are in essential work industries as well and go to those work sites.
Those workers, you would hope, are all wearing masks but again to the degree that compliance isn't in place or that people drop their guard then there can be transmission within workplaces as well.
Those workplace colleagues have household and family members as well and on it goes.
By Michael Doyle
What happens if Melbourne does not hit the five-cases-a-day threshold?
Professor Sutton said:
We do have to meet the thresholds. The mystery cases in particular is a really important one to meet.
The successful jurisdictions internationally in Australia have gotten to five or fewer cases in a 14-day period when they've been able to maintain control into the long-term.
Places that have haven't met that threshold have not been able to do that.
So that's an important one. With respect to the five average per day, we've always said that we need to look at what those cases are.
If the outbreak numbers are part of that 14-day average that we get to on October 18 or 19, we will look at exactly how well that's controlled.
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