Watch: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Transport Infrastructure Minister Jacinta Allan host press conference
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Transport Infrastructure Minister Jacinta Allan host press conference and give a COVID-19 update at around 10am AEDT.
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NSW records four new locally transmitted cases in the Southern Highlands
By Laura Chung
NSW has reported four new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.
An additional five cases were reported in hotel quarantine, bringing the total number of cases in NSW to 4265.
Of the locally transmitted cases, one was locally acquired in the Southern Highlands area, and the other three are close contacts.
Contact tracing and further investigations are underway.
One of the new cases attended Moss Vale Public School, and another of the new cases attended Southern Highlands Early Childhood Centre.
Both sites are closed today for cleaning and contact tracing is underway.
The school and childcare centre are working closely with NSW Health to identify close contacts.
Anyone who lives or works in the Moss Vale area has been urged to watch for any COVID-19 symptoms and get tested should even the mildest of symptoms develop.
There is a new walk-in clinic at Moss Vale Showground, 16 Illawarra Highway, Moss Vale.
It is open today from 10:30am to 5pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 5pm.
Queensland hits 52 straight days without a local COVID-19 case
By Lydia Lynch
Queensland has now gone 52 days straight without a case of COVID-19 in the community.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said there were eight active cases across Queensland and no new cases were detected in quarantine overnight.
“Well done Queensland,” she said.
There were 4320 tests conducted in the past 24 hours.
Premier asks for NZ to Melbourne flights able to resume next week
By Ashleigh McMillan
International flights from New Zealand will be able to land directly in Melbourne from Monday.
Premier Daniel Andrews said he had written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison to say the state would join the trans-Tasman bubble, after seven days in a row of zero COVID-19 cases.
“Whilst we inadvertently found ourselves in the bubble … New Zealanders will now be able to travel directly into Melbourne,” he told a press conference on Friday morning.
“Now’s the time, because cases are so low and we’re opening up, we can have flights directly into our city and our state. There will be no quarantine (for people from New Zealand).
“In so many parts of the world, this virus is completely and utterly out of control … the chance that those people (from different countries) are returning with the virus is a higher likelihood than it’s ever been.”
It comes as the Coates Inquiry prepares to hand down its interim report today, which will be tabled in parliament at around 12pm.
Mr Andrews said the “very detailed and thorough work” by the board of inquiry would inform the restart of the hotel quarantine scheme.
“We’ll look at all those recommendations carefully”.
Melbourne 'on track' to have travel restrictions lifted, 'ring of steel' removed from Sunday night
By Ashleigh McMillan
Melbourne remains "on track" to have restrictions around 25km travel limits and the barrier between metro and regional Victoria removed from Sunday night.
There are now just 15 active cases in Victoria, after no new cases of COVID-19 were announced today.
There were 18,671 test results processed on Thursday, which Premier Daniel Andrews said was a “very strong number”.
“We need to keep that going so we know what’s out there and what isn’t,” he said at a press conference on Friday morning.
“It’s an amazing thing, building something very fragile and precious - and we need to work to safeguard that.
“This Sunday we will make really significant announcements about taking further steps around 25km limit, the ‘ring of steel’ with regional Victoria and some expansions for different settings - bars, restaurants and cafes.
“We’ll also map out Victorians what the rest of November looks like - some further steps we’d like to take a couple of weeks after this Sunday.
“That is all on track, and these numbers are very impressive.
“With commitment and vigilance, we need to keep going, we can’t pretend seven days of zeros are like a vaccine against this virus ... If we all do our best, we can see these numbers low, we can open up and importantly stay open.”
There is now just one healthcare worker with COVID-19.
Two people remain in hospital with the virus, but neither are in ICU.
Clive Palmer loses High Court fight over WA hard border
By Heather McNeill
Mining billionaire Clive Palmer has lost his legal bid to have WA's hard border deemed unconstitutional after the High Court of Australia ruled in favour of the state government.
The court was tasked with deciding whether Western Australia’s hard border was justified or whether the state’s 'all-or-nothing' approach pushed the unprecedented closure into unconstitutional territory.
A High Court has decided WA's hard border was constitutional, with the detailed reasons for the decision to be published at a later date. Credit:WAtoday
On Friday morning, the High Court ruled the border was lawful, and ordered Mr Palmer to pay costs.
The legal battle continued in front of a full bench of High Court justices earlier this week, despite WA Premier Mark McGowan announcing on October 28 the state would move to a border policy akin to what Mr Palmer had been arguing for.
The new measures will allow travel into WA from other jurisdictions which have eliminated COVID-19, including the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, the ACT and Tasmania.
Fed warns pace of recovery is slowing while pandemic threat looms large
By Rachel Siegel
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday said the pace of recovery in the world's largest economy has moderated over the past few months and cautioned that the recent rise in coronavirus cases in the United States and around the world is "particularly concerning."
Powell said it was expected that the pace of the economic recovery would ease compared to May and June, given how deeply the economy was gutted earlier in the spring. But the virus continues to threaten households' ability to save, Powell said, one day after the number of new US infections topped 100,000 for the first time in a single day.
Jerome Powell during a virtual news conference after the Fed meeting concluded.Credit:Bloomberg
"We have been concerned that the downside risks are prevalent now, which are really the risk of further spread of the disease," Powell said at a press conference following the Fed's two-day policy meeting.
"What we see up to the present is really continued growth, continue expansion, but at a gradually moderating pace," he added.
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Updated graphs: Victoria's case numbers continue to fall
By Craig Butt
Victoria's 14-day case average has fallen to 1.3 and is nearing NSW's 14-day average for locally acquired cases, which was at 1 yesterday.
The state's 14-day average will likely record even larger drops tomorrow and on Sunday because a day of five cases and a day of seven cases will fall out of the 14-day reference window used to calculate that average.
There are no coronavirus cases currently under investigation, which means that the number of mystery cases confirmed over the previous fortnight has remained at two.
This graph shows the number of new cases recorded in Victoria each day since the start of the first wave. That red line - the seven-day average - reached zero today, due to the fact there had been seven days in a row of no new cases.
It's a bit hard to see on that graph given that the state's 7-day average rose above 500 during the peak of the second wave in early August, so I've made a version of the graph that zooms into the past month of so.
In this graph, you can see quite clearly how the 7-day average hit zero today:
Victoria records full week of no new cases of coronavirus, no deaths
By Ashleigh McMillan
Victoria has now recorded a full week of no new cases of coronavirus and no further deaths.
Premier Daniel Andrews is expected to make announcements on Sunday about the easing of more restrictions.
Meanwhile, a leading Australian infectious disease researcher said that a decision to start producing a COVID vaccine in Melbourne, which is still only in the trial phase, was an expensive gamble but one that would put Australia in a great position if it is effective.
Dr Paul Griffin, Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, said progress had been fast through the development of a vaccine due to preparatory actions, like starting to manufacture vaccines in phase 3 human trials.
'Psychiatry has lost its way': Prize winners shine light on children's mental health, lack of diagnoses
By Rachel Clun
Children's mental health needs urgent attention and people deserve specific diagnoses for their mental health conditions, say the dual winners of this year's Australian Mental Health Prize.
Professor Gordon Parker and Professor Helen Milroy used the award to highlight mental health issues, some of which they said had been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Helen Milroy says talk about prevention and early detection is all well and good but there are many families with children who need help now.
Professor Milroy, a Palkyu woman and the Stan Perron chair of child and adolescent psychiatry at Perth Children's Hospital and the University of Western Australia, said data on suicides among young people before the pandemic was concerning.
"We've got a big issue on our hands and this will be much worse with COVID," she said. "Kids are no more immune to mental health than anyone else and as much as kids can be remarkably resilient, we can't rely on that."
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