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Not on the same page: the Macrons fight over literary lockdown
By Henry Samuel
Paris: It was a shared love of literature that brought France's power couple together.
Now Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron are at loggerheads over France's love of reading, with the First Lady reportedly insistent that bookshops should remain open during lockdown while her husband has forced them to shut.
French President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte Macron is a champion of bookstores and a former teacher. Credit:AFP
With France in confinement since last Thursday, the president has ordered all shops selling "non-essential" goods to close for at least a month while leaving supermarkets, wine and household goods stores open.
The decision to count books as "non-essential" in the land of Molière, Victor Hugo and Jean-Paul Sartre has prompted howls of complaint from top authors, booksellers and publishers, but also placed Macron on a collision course with his wife, according to newspaper Le Parisien.
The Telegraph, London
Coate's first quarantine report tells us plenty and none of it is good
By Noel Towell
Justice Jennifer Coate’s interim report into Victoria’s ill-fated hotels quarantine wasn’t supposed to point fingers or find fault with the program.
But Friday's interim report from the inquiry tore it apart.
This was the interim report, the one that’s about looking forward, taking the lessons from the past and applying them to the future.
Not the report that tells us who knew, who should have known, what and when they knew it, who was asleep at the wheel or who was driving recklessly.
But looking down Coate’s long to-do list for a competently-run "facilities-based" quarantine effort to protect a local population from overseas acquired COVID-19 infections, it’s hard to find anything, anything at all, that was done right by Victoria the first time round.
Opinion: The loudest voices in lockdown were appallingly entitled (and wrong)
By Jon Faine
Victoria has beaten coronavirus. Hooray. The Andrews government takes the credit. Logic dictates that they must also accept the blame for it getting out of control.
Jennifer Coate, the former chief coroner and royal commissioner now inquiring into hotel quarantine, has seen her share of disasters. This was another. We await her final report but in the interim she has provided guidance on how to do hotel quarantine safely.
Michael O'Brien said he got his approach as Opposition Leader right in recent months.Credit:Jason South
Unsurprisingly, people must be tested as they leave isolation, an oversight that was breathtaking. She recommends e-carceration using digital devices. It will be cheaper and more reliable than under-trained security staff. The police must overcome their reluctance to take charge and ensure strict – not vague – compliance. Then domestic and international flights can safely resume.
Those from the conservative side of politics are frustrated that Premier Daniel Andrews is still popular. If they could not tear him down now, when can they?
Michael O’Brien as Liberal Party leader is under enormous pressure to lift their standing or make way for someone who will. But who? Tim Smith has proven he is not ready. His regular public catch-ups with former leader Matthew Guy suggest improbably that Guy may have the appetite for another bruising contest against Dan Andrews. Until John Pesutto can be brought back there is no obvious alternative.
UK's first mass COVID-19 testing program kicks off in Liverpool
By Jon Super and Pan Pylas
Liverpool: Hundreds of people have been tested for the coronavirus in the English city of Liverpool as Britain's first mass coronavirus testing program began, a long-awaited development that has been touted as a potential game-changer in the UK's battle against the virus.
Long lines of residents formed on Friday, local time, outside the city's six new test centres, which opened at midday and are set to stay in place for a couple of weeks.
Hundreds of people without COVID-19 symptoms queued in Liverpool to get tested.Credit:Bloomberg
The centres located at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool and at local sports facilities are providing lateral flow – or swab – tests with a turnaround time of less than an hour for the estimated half-a-million people who live and work in the city and do not have COVID-19 symptoms. About 2000 military personnel have been deployed to help run the program that has the capacity to test thousands of people every day.
Moira Garwood, 80, has been diligently following public health rules since the British government first imposed restrictions in March. Even so, she was keen to find out that she didn't have the virus and that she was ready to go again in a couple of weeks.
AP
After seven doughnut days, Victoria set to be 'much closer to normal'
By Michael Fowler and Liam Mannix
Victorians may be rewarded on Sunday after their perfect week of zero coronavirus cases with a more widespread easing of restrictions than had been planned.
Emboldened but still on alert after seven "doughnut days" of no new cases or deaths, Premier Daniel Andrews said on Friday that "we may be able to add a little bit" to Sunday's announcements when Melbourne's 25-kilometre movement limit and the "ring of steel" separating the city and regional Victoria could be scrapped.
Daniel Andrews will announce Victoria's restrictions plan for the rest of November on Sunday.Credit:Eddie Jim
The Premier also flagged for the first time that Sunday's announcement would include further plans to lift restrictions this month, with the next round of easing set for November 23 – the day the border with NSW will open – if case numbers stay low.
Professor Adrian Esterman, a biostatistician at the University of South Australia, said Victoria's tough restrictions working in tandem were ultimately behind the drop from a peak of 725 active cases on August 5 to a week of zeroes.
Months of lockdown including almost eight weeks of night-time curfew, mandatory mask wearing, and dramatic improvements in contact tracing all played a part, Professor Esterman said.
Good morning everyone
By Roy Ward
G'day all! It's Roy Ward and I'm in the main chair once again for our COVID-19 live blog on this Saturday morning.
There is plenty to get into today as Victoria awaits the anticipated easing of several major restrictions on Sunday while the rest of the nation is making good time in adjusting to COVID-normal life.
As always, please feel free to leave a comment on the blog or shoot me a tweet at @rpjward on Twitter.
Enjoy the hours to come.
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