Summary
- Premier Gladys Berejiklian has moved to address complacency towards coronavirus in Sydney, telling businesses they face significant penalties and harsher rules if restaurants and cafes continue to flout COVID-19 protocols.
- A new mother caught up in a coronavirus scare says delays and conflicting advice from Victoria's contact-tracing system left her terrified she could have unknowingly exposed maternity ward staff, parents and newborn children to COVID-19.
- Reopening the border to NSW on November 1 is "still not out of the question", but Queensland's deputy premier says a review by the state's Chief Health Officer would have the final say.
- The World Health Organisation has reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday, with infections rising by 338,779 in 24 hours.
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'Which advice do we follow?': Families battle confusion over contact tracing
By Michael Fowler
A new mother caught up in a coronavirus scare says delays and conflicting advice from Victoria's contact-tracing system left her terrified she could have unknowingly exposed maternity ward staff, parents and newborn children to COVID-19.
Angela Lawton dined at the Oddfellows Cafe in Kilmore, north of Melbourne last Thursday. She gave birth to her son Evander on Friday and was discharged from hospital on Monday, when her friends told her the cafe had been identified as an exposure site.
She called the coronavirus hotline on Tuesday morning and says she was advised not to get tested or isolate unless she developed symptoms. Later that night, she was contacted by Goulburn Valley Health advising her that she should in fact get tested.
David and Angela Lawton with their new baby, Evander.Credit:Justin McManus
"In addition to all the other things with a newborn, it was terrifying to think I could’ve been patient zero for a serious outbreak in a maternity ward," Ms Lawton said.
"If this is how it’s managed with a small outbreak in a town, what would they do if it was 200 people or there were outbreaks all across the state?"
The coronavirus outbreak linked to the Kilmore cafe, which grew from two to four people on Thursday, began after a Melburnian with permission to leave the city stopped illegally to dine on September 30 and infected a waitress who tested positive to COVID-19 on Saturday evening.
Mask use going backwards, customers not signing in: 'complacency and apathy' hits NSW
By Alexandra Smith and Tom Rabe
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has moved to address complacency towards coronavirus in Sydney, telling businesses they face significant penalties and harsher rules if restaurants and cafes continue to flout COVID-19 protocols.
The warning came as NSW recorded eight new locally acquired cases on Thursday in two separate clusters – the highest number in the past three weeks. It also emerged that mask use by passengers on Sydney's public transport network was going backwards.
Ms Berejiklian said the government would consider the compulsory use of Service NSW's QR sign-in code in all venues after a positive case visited a restaurant which did not collect details of all diners.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejikilian has warned that complacency is creeping into Sydney. Credit:Kate Geraghty
The Premier said her patience was wearing thin after it emerged NSW Health was struggling to contact all the patrons who dined at the popular restaurant Ripples in Milson's Point when a confirmed case attended the venue on the night of October 3.
"Can I make it very clear that if any business has found to have been negligent in their responsibilities or fail to have a COVID safe plan, the full force of the law will come down on them," Ms Berejiklian said.
Ms Berejiklian said she has received advice from health authorities that some businesses were not properly implementing their COVID-safe plans.
Second Trump-Biden debate mired in confusion
US President Donald Trump, infected with COVID-19, first said he would not take part in a virtual debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden because "I'm not gonna waste my time".
Later, Trump's campaign team issued a statement suggesting the encounter be pushed back to October 22, the scheduled date of a third debate between the candidates, while using the town hall-style format planned for October 15.
The Trump campaign proposed holding what would be a third debate on October 29.
Trump and Biden may not have a second debate.Credit:AP
But Biden's camp rejected the proposal, saying the president's "erratic behavious doesn't allow him to rewrite the calendar".
"Trump chose today to pull out of the October 15th debate," Kate Bedingfield, Biden deputy campaign manager, said in a statement.
The announcement from the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates cited a need "to protect the health and safety of all involved with the second presidential debate." AP
France's COVID-19 cases at record high, new restrictions expected
Paris: France's new daily COVID-19 infections remained above the record 18,000 threshold for the second day on Thursday, while the number of people treated in hospital for the disease was up.
Hospitals in the Paris region moved into emergency mode on Thursday, cancelling staff holidays and postponing non-essential operations, as coronavirus patients made up close to half of all patients in intensive care units (ICUs).
According to French media, the Health Minister is expected to put other major cities - including Lyon and Lille - on maximum COVID-19 alert, a level reached by Paris and Marseille that triggers new measures to curb the circulation of the coronavirus in those cities.
Italy registered 4,458 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday, the first time the country has exceeded 4,000 cases in a single day since mid-April.
There were also 22 COVID-related deaths on Thursday against 31 the day before -- far fewer than at the height of the pandemic in Italy in March and April. Reuters
Record one-day rise in global COVID-19 infections
The World Health Organisation has reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday, with infections rising by 338,779 in 24 hours.
Europe reported 96,996 new cases, the highest total for the region ever recorded by the WHO. The previous WHO record for new cases was 330,340 on October 2. Global deaths rose by 5514 to a total of 1.05 million.
As a region, Europe is now reporting more cases than India, Brazil or the United States. India reported 78,524 new cases, followed by Brazil at 41,906 and the US with 38,904 new infections, according to the WHO, whose data lags the daily reports by each country.
London pubs remain open as infections rise across Europe.Credit:Getty
Infections in the United Kingdom have reached record levels with more than 17,000 new cases reported on Thursday.
"We are seeing a definite and sustained increase in cases and admissions to hospital. The trend is clear, and it is very concerning," said Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England.
France's new daily COVID-19 infections remained above the record 18,000 threshold for the second day on Thursday, with new measures to curb the outbreak expected.
The average number of new infections reported in Belgium has been increasing for seven days straight and Germany reported its biggest daily increase in new cases since April on Thursday.
While India still leads in the globe in most new cases reported per day, new infections are down 20 per cent from its peak.
In the US, which has the largest total number of cases and deaths in the world, new infections are edging higher along with the most hospitalised patients since early September.
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I'm Hanna Mills Turbet and I'll be bringing you all our COVID-19 news until mid-afternoon.
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