Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews daily press conference at 11am
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is due to give his daily update at around 11am on Wednesday morning.
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Path of the Kilmore COVID-19 spreader
By Jamie Brown
One of our visual journalists, Jamie Brown, has pieced together the path of the Kilmore COVID-19 spreader.
Shepparton ‘behind the eight ball’ in controlling COVID outbreak: MP
By Michael Fowler
Victoria’s MP for Shepparton Suzanna Sheed says the town is “really behind the eight ball” in controlling a coronavirus outbreak after an infectious man waited to tell contact tracers he had visited Shepparton for days.
Ms Sheed said the virus was likely spreading in the community for up to 10 to 12 days before contact tracers became aware of positive cases - a situation the town was “dreading”.
Independent Suzanna Sheed.Credit:Jason South
“It's just devastating for our community and for all our regional communities,” said Ms Sheed, an independent MP.
“We’ve just got to that point where we've had weeks free [of COVID-19] and the whole of regional Victoria and northern Victoria has been free for a long time and so this is just the sort of thing we dreaded.”
Ms Sheed said she had been advised there was a likely fourth positive case in Shepparton and health authorities expected more.
“They’re very uphappy that it's taken so long for this to this information to come forward but of course you can’t change human nature and what some people do,” she said.
“It’s really ... set the community back but everyone is showing that they want to be out there, they want to be tested and they want this to be got on top of.”
She said she did not know whether the three confirmed cases in Shepparton were from the same household or family.
Deputy Premier James Merlino said the man’s
decision to lie to contact tracers about visiting Shepparton “beggars belief”.
The Premier has said those who break rules are not fined because it may deter them from giving contact tracers honest information.
Despite the man who visited Kilmore then Shepparton both lying to authorities and avoiding a fine, Mr Merlino said he still believed that was the right approach.
“I think the approach is appropriate ... we need to get all the information out of those people about where they’ve been.We need people to be truthful,”he said.
“So, you know, it would be an understatement to say, you know, we're disappointed that we didn't get all that information
“For someone to say they’ve been to Benalla but not mention that they've also been to Shepparton, it just beggars belief.”
US pharma company Eli Lilly pauses trial of antibody drug Trump touted as COVID-19 'cure'
By Reuters
Eli Lilly and Co said on Tuesday (US time) that the government-sponsored clinical trial of its COVID-19 antibody treatment similar to one taken by US President Donald Trump has been paused because of a safety concern.
Trump touted the Lilly drug, along with the antibody treatment from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals that he received for his COVID-19, as tantamount to a cure in a video he posted last week.
Trump touted the Lilly drug, along with the antibody treatment from Regeneron that he received for his COVID-19, as virtual "cures" in a video he posted last week.Credit:AP
The announcement comes one day after Johnson & Johnson said it was forced to pause a large high-profile trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine because a volunteer fell ill. J&J said it does not yet know if that person was given the vaccine or a placebo.
AstraZeneca's US trial for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine has also been on hold for over a month after a volunteer in its UK study fell ill. Trials of that vaccine resumed in other regions after a brief halt.
Lilly said earlier this month it was applying for emergency use authorisation (EUA) for the antibody drug, LY-CoV555, for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 based on data from another clinical trial.
It is not uncommon to pause drug trials to investigate safety concerns, and such actions do not necessarily indicate a serious problem. Because of the urgent need for drugs and vaccines to tackle a pandemic that has claimed over 1 million lives worldwide - and the speed with which they are being developed - these trials have come under intense scrutiny.
'Crush it, Shepparton. Test and quarantine': Victorian CHO
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has asked the northern regional centre of Shepparton to "crush it" as testers descend on the rural city following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19.
On Wednesday morning, Mr Sutton quote-tweeted information from the health department listing Shepparton as a high risk location, telling that residents: "You can do it."
Professor Sutton also took the opportunity to remind Victorians of the need for people to be upfront about their close contacts.
"To be absolutely clear, delays in cluster investigations are not about the response, which is immediate," Professor Sutton tweeted, "We need everyone to be honest about who their close contacts are, where they work, and where they’ve been. Every time. For everyone’s sake."
"Others are put at genuine risk when we can’t follow-up people who have been exposed or places that everyone needs to know about as a prompt for testing and self-isolation. With timely, honest information we can protect Victoria. And defeat this virus."
Shepparton MP Suzanne Sheed said on Wednesday that the virus cluster is "just devastating for our community," and that it was what many in the area dreaded.
COVID chaos rocks Giro d'Italia as Australian rider, team pull out
Five teams were hit by COVID-19 cases on the first rest day of the Giro d'Italia, with two of them pulling out of the three-week grand tour 12 days before the finish in Milan, and Australian sprinter Michael Matthews among those to test positive.
The Mitchelton-Scott team withdrew after four staff members tested positive for the coronavirus following top rider Simon Yates pulling out last week. Jumbo-Visma, whose leader Steven Kruijswijk tested positive, said they would not start the 10th stage on Tuesday.
Michael Matthews has tested positive for COVID-19.Credit:AP
Team Sunweb rider Matthews, one staff member from Ineos-Grenadiers and AG2R-La Mondiale also returned positive tests, organisers RCS said.
RCS, in a joint statement with the International Cycling Union (UCI), said the teams' doctors had ordered "isolation measures".
Opposition MP calls on Andrews and Sutton to release 5km restriction advice
By Michael Fowler
Victorian Liberal MP David Davis has called on the Andrews government and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton to release the medical advice behind the five-kilometre movement restriction.
Mr Davis, leader of the upper house in parliament, moved an amendment last night for the five-kilometre rule to be removed as the government’s omnibus bill was debated.
Victorian Liberal MP David Davis.Credit:The Age
While it was rejected as four crossbenchers voted against the amendment, it could have meant that the Parliament changed guidelines set by the government’s public health team.
Mr Davis denied this would have been a dangerous precedent to set and said he was concerned by the government’s refusal to table the advice behind the five-kilometre rule and other restrictions.
“Well, I think that the reality is that we need to shine a light on these public health orders. We need to see the process by which they're made,” he said.
“One of the issues that we've discovered in the curfew case - the classic demonstration of this - is it seems to all the world that these decisions are being made in the Premier's office and the Premier's department, and being imposed on the public health team.”
Mr Davis said his party had lodged freedom of information requests and asked for the documents to be tabled in Parliament but the government had not provided them.
Controversy over Melbourne’s night-time curfew was sparked after Professor Sutton said it was not his idea and Premier Daniel Andrews revealed it was imposed to make police enforcement easier.
After the opposition’s motion of no confidence in the Premier was convincingly defeated at 2am today following a seven-hour debate, Liberals leader Michael O’Brien stood by the motion.
“I think many Victorians will be very, very disappointed that last night we saw the Labor Party vote to protect Daniel Andrews’ job instead of protecting Victorians jobs,” he said.
Breaking: Shepparton cluster caused by same individual who spawned Kilmore cluster
By Paul Sakkal
The person who sparked a cluster of COVID-19 cases in Kilmore also travelled to Shepparton and spread the virus, according to the Health Department’s testing chief Jeroen Weimar.
Mr Weimar said the individual only informed health authorities about his travel to Shepparton on Tuesday, more than a fortnight after the events.
The person, a contact of a member of the Chadstone cluster who did not know they were infected, travelled to Kilmore, Benalla and Shepparton on September 30. They ate at a cafe in Kilmore, spawning six cases, before heading north to a Shepparton tyre shop.
A symptomatic person tested positive in Shepparton over the weekend. A dozen of that person’s work colleagues were tested on Tuesday and three were positive for COVID-19.
Mr Weimar said it was clear the person was not acting in a COVID-safe way during their interactions with others in regional towns.
“Something clearly happened on the 30th of September between that individual and the people at the tyre shop which meant the virus was able to spread, very similarly to what happened in Kilmore,” Mr Weimar said on 3AW.
“The individual, who had a work permit to travel into regional Victoria, as well as stopping off at Kilmore also stopped off in Shepparton … The information was unfortunately not forthcoming until last night.
“The contact tracing is really swift but we’re only as good as the information we get and if we don’t know people have been to Shepparton then it’s very hard to contact trace in Shepparton.”
'The Australian public is safe from my lips': PM
By Mary Ward
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will not be adopting his US equivalent's infection control procedures, after President Donald Trump said he would be kissing his supporters on the lips after receiving a negative coronavirus test.
Speaking at a rally in Florida this week, the President said he would "kiss everyone" in the audience.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaking in Brisbane on Tuesday. Credit:Nine
"I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and … I'll just give you a big fat kiss," he told the crowd.
The Prime Minister laughed when asked to comment on the campaign strategy during an appearance on 2GB this morning.
"There's nothing like Donald, that's for sure, but the Australian public is safe from my lips," he said.
Opinion: Am I really weird or wasting resources to have had five COVID-19 tests?
By Julie Power
Having five COVID-19 tests seemed excessive, overly cautious, a little paranoid. But even more? Turns out more than 6000 people in NSW have had five or more.
My family thought I was nuts to have five tests, especially as each one came back negative, and my exposure to the world outside home has been limited and mostly masked.
A COVID-19 pop-up clinic has opened in Lakemba to get more people tested.Credit:Rhett Wyman
With twin sons in year 12, though, the last thing I wanted was to be remembered as the mother who started an outbreak that forced the HSC to be abandoned before spreading to aged care centres up and down the coast as students took off on the pandemic's version of schoolies germ spree.
Each time I began wheezing and coughing, I’ve wondered if it was hayfever from too much time in the garden. But the occasional sore throat and mild headache? It could be COVID-19.
I couldn't forget the healthcare worker with the infamous “scratchy throat” and mild symptoms who unknowingly contributed to the outbreak in Newmarch House aged care facility by turning up to work. Imagine living with that. And I did.
Should I have got tested so often? Should you if you start to sniffle?
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