Summary
- Victorians can now move freely across the state, with the 'ring of steel' separating regional and metro areas removed at midnight. Victoria recorded a ninth day of no new coronavirus cases and no deaths on Sunday.
- NSW and Queensland both recorded no new cases of locally transmitted coronavirus on Sunday. In NSW, three new cases were reported among overseas passengers in hotel quarantine.
- Joe Biden has defeated Donald Trump to claim the presidency. It came as the United States set a new record with more than 120,000 new coronavirus cases recorded in 24 hours.
- Australia recorded another day of no local transmission cases on Sunday.
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By the time Biden becomes president, COVID crisis will be 'extraordinarily serious'
By Kate Lahey
The United States is stuck with a rising coronavirus toll for the long haul, despite the election of Joe Biden, a leading expert in health law says.
Lawrence O. Gostin, the director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on National and Global Health Law, said the state of the pandemic response in the US was "chaos".
The US has recorded the world's highest number of deaths from COVID-19 - more than 237,000. It has become the first country to report more than 100,000 daily cases and is now also close to recording 10 million total cases of the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
"By the time President-elect Biden takes office, our COVID counts are going to be, you know, extraordinarily serious and I don't think you can test and trace your way out of a pandemic when it's so embedded in all your communities across the nation," Professor Gostin told the ABC's RN Breakfast radio program on Monday.
"The coronavirus taskforce from the White House right now, it's pretty much Trump's," he said.
"Within the taskforce there's sniping. The President and the Vice-President are entirely opposed to the science-based approach. It's frankly chaos."
"There's undermining of the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. So yes, we have some good scientists, but it's for nought with this constant snapping from the political class. But Joe Biden won't do that. Joe Biden will have faith in the scientists."
However, Mr Biden will not become president until January 20.
Asked if Americans were more likely to listen to health advice on coronavirus now that the election is over, Professor Gostin said he saw no sign of that.
"I can't really see the US bringing this under control, until mid-to-late our summer in the northern hemisphere. This is going to be going on at least until the mid-way of 2021, and probably will still be lingering on for the end of 2021. We're in it for the long haul."
He expected an emergency use vaccine to be approved in the US by the end of this year, most likely for healthcare and other essential workers.
Even if that use is widened, it will likely be a two-dose vaccine requiring deep-freezing, making it hard to deliver to poor and rural areas, he said.
Did you get your sweat on after Melbourne gyms reopened?
The dumbbells and kettlebells are sanitised, the bikes are cleaned and the mirror is sparkling. After months of lockdown, gym owner Nathan Jones could not wait to open his doors at dawn on Monday.
His NJ Fitness gym in Malvern closed as the second wave of COVID-19 swept across Victoria in July, writes Chris Moir and, after the government announcement on Sunday, will reopen albeit under tough restrictions.
"Far out man, I’ve got goosebumps," Mr Jones said. "To look at my people and watch them light up again in the face. Feeling like they’ve got energy back in their bodies and knowing I’m going to do that between now and Christmas."
He spent Sunday getting the space ready in anticipation for his first members to return.
Nathan Jones is thrilled to be operating again but thinks the rules will make the short-term difficult.Credit:Simon Schluter
"I’ve just finished eight hours of cleaning my studio, organising the workouts, spacing out my equipment, organising my cleaning stations," he said.
"Every dumbbell, kettlebell, bike, rower, rack and mirror is wiped down, cleaned, sanitised and sparkling."
Ten days in a row! No new cases for Victoria
By Ashleigh McMillan
Victoria has just clocked up its 10th straight day of no new COVID-19 cases and no deaths, with zero local infections reported across the state on Monday.
Melbourne's 14-day rolling case average is 0.4, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Regional Victoria has not had any cases of the virus in the last two weeks.
Four active cases remain. There were 10,653 test results received on Sunday.
Facials within a fortnight but operators worried for future
By Chris Moir and Lee Robinson
Beauty salon owner Sandra Dickson can finally breathe a deep - masked - sigh of relief.
Sunday's announcement of eased coronavirus restrictions in Victoria means beauty clients will be able to remove their masks while receiving facials and other skin treatments from November 23.
"The relief is enormous, it’s huge," Ms Dickson said, adding her Missie CoCo salon in Prahran was already booked out for two weeks from the day the new rules apply.
Sandra Dickson, owner of Prahran beauty salon Missie CoCo. Credit:Joe Armao
"My phone literally hasn’t stopped all day. Emails coming through, messages on social media, text messages, phones, it’s going crazy."
Ms Dickson reopened her business in late October after the lockdown was eased but was not able to offer about 90 per cent of her services due to the mask requirement.
Doncaster woman April Brodie, owner of Beaute: The Facial Destination, said she was excited to reopen but she expected a tough road ahead.
"I was delighted I finally had a date, I was disappointed it would still be another couple of weeks away," Ms Brodie said.
Ms Brodie said her rent debt had increased to more than $30,000 - on top of her existing equipment debt - due to losing about 80 per cent of her business’ income.
After spending nearly 40 years working in the industry - 23 of those as salon owner - she said she still fears the "nerve-wracking" prospect of shutting her doors permanently.
"I don’t know if I have avoided [permanently closing] yet, in time we’ll see," she said. "You’re living day by day."
First vaccines on track for March release: Health Minister
By Josh Dye
Health Minister Greg Hunt has described Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as “a beacon of hope for the world”, as production of a leading vaccine candidate begins in Melbourne today.
Global biotech company CSL is beginning to manufacture the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to get a head start on making up to 30 million doses, should ongoing clinical trials be successful.
Mr Hunt acknowledged the vaccine’s effectiveness is still unknown, and confirmed any vaccine would be voluntary.
“The balance of probabilities increasingly are on the side of having a vaccine that will work. And then the question will be just how effective is that vaccine, but it’s certainly going to be a significant improvement [on not having one],” he said.
Mr Hunt said the first vaccines are likely to be available in March. Health workers and the elderly will be first in line to receive a shot.
“We’ll work through and make sure the whole country has availability to vaccines during the course of 2021,” he said.
After another day of zero locally transmitted coronavirus cases nationally, Mr Hunt said Australia’s response in squashing the second wave of COVID-19 was “a beacon of hope for the world”.
Women-founded businesses struggle to attract funding during coronavirus
By Cara Waters
"I don't think we are long enough into the [coronavirus] crisis to see a statistically significant impact on portfolio so far. Given we only make a small number of individual investments per year, it's difficult to see trends over a limited time period," he said.
"However ... it's pretty clear the economic impact of COVID more broadly has been disproportionately felt by women - which we think makes it more important than ever to be measuring these numbers and to continue to work towards increasing the number of women founders who are getting funded and the number of women investors who are writing cheques."
In 2019 the firms made a total of 84 investments and of these, 12 were investments in a business founded by women and 22 were investments in businesses co-founded by women.
Monica Meldrum, co-founder of organic snack food business Whole Kids, said it was "absolutely harder" for women entrepreneurs and founders to raise money.
Ms Meldrum closed a $1.17 million equity crowdfunding raise for Whole Kids last week after talking to various venture capital firms but finding none were the right fit. "For women looking at traditional cap raises there can be issues with being taken seriously and access to networks," she said. "For us crowd funding was a no-brainer as we have a huge and loyal customer following that have supported us."
Global coronavirus cases exceed 50 million after 30-day spike
Global coronavirus infections exceeded 50 million on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, with a second wave of the virus in the past 30 days accounting for a quarter of the total.
October was the worst month for the pandemic so far, with the United States becoming the first country to report more than 100,000 daily cases. A surge in Europe contributed to the rise.
The latest seven-day average shows global daily infections are rising by more than 540,000.
Hundreds of people without COVID-19 symptoms queued in Liverpool to get tested.Credit:Bloomberg
More than 1.25 million people have died from the respiratory disease that emerged in China late last year.
The pandemic's recent acceleration has been ferocious. It took 32 days for the number of cases to rise from 30 million to 40 million. It took just 21 days to add another 10 million.
Europe, with about 12 million cases, is the worst-affected region, overtaking Latin America. Europe accounts for 24% of COVID-19 deaths.
The region is logging about 1 million new infections every three days or so, according to a Reuters analysis. That is 51% of the global total.
France is recording 54,440 cases a day on the latest seven-day average, a higher rate than India with a far bigger population.
The global second wave is testing healthcare systems across Europe, prompting Germany, France and Britain to order many citizens back to their homes again.
Denmark, which imposed a new lockdown on its population in several northern areas, ordered the culling of its 17 million minks after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans.
The United States, with about 20% of global cases, is facing its worst surge, recording more than 100,000 daily coronavirus cases on the latest seven-day average, Reuters data showed. It reported a record of more than 130,000 cases on Saturday.
The latest U.S. surge coincided with the last month of election campaigning in which President Donald Trump minimised the severity of the pandemic and his successful challenger, Joe Biden, urged a more science-based approach.
Trump's rallies, some open-air and with few masks and little social distancing, led to 30,000 additional confirmed cases and likely led to more than 700 deaths, Stanford University economists estimated in a research paper.
In Asia, India has the world's second-highest caseload but has seen a steady slowdown since September, despite the start of the Hindu festival season. Total cases exceeded 8.5 million cases on Friday and the daily average is 46,200, according to Reuters data.
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Transport mega-projects unnecessary, wasteful, report finds
Australian governments must rethink their "mega-projects" – those with a price tag topping $1 billion – as they search for an infrastructure-led coronavirus recovery, or risk delivering a "herd of white elephants", a new report warns.
State governments nationwide are fast-tracking transport projects in the quest for an infrastructure-led recovery from the coronavirus downturn, write Clay Lucas and Tom Rabe. But a number of Victorian transport experts argue spending billions on large-scale transport projects conceived before the pandemic makes little sense because the crisis has slowed population growth and fewer people will commute into cities as work from home becomes part of the "COVID-normal".
An artist's impression of the widened Eastern Freeway, part of the North East Link project.Credit:Victorian government
The Andrews government’s three biggest projects – the North East Link, West Gate Tunnel and Metro Tunnel rail link – will between them cost at least $11 billion more than originally promised.
The Grattan Institute's report – The Rise of Mega-projects: Counting the Costs – has found that a decade ago there was one transport project in Australia worth more than $5 billion. Today there are nine and the total cost of them has already blown out by $24 billion.
Which rules have changed in Victoria today?
By Ashleigh McMillan
From 11.59pm on Sunday, Victoria's COVID-19 rules have radically changed. The entire state has been reunited under the same restrictions, so here's a run down of what you can now do in Victoria.
- No restrictions on travel. The 25km movement limit has been lifted and the 'ring of steel' separating regional Victoria and metro Melbourne has been removed;
- Two visitors from different households plus dependents allowed per day, either together or separately;
- Restaurants, hotels, cafes, bars open indoor to a maximum of 40 (10 people per space), outdoor maximum of 70 (one person per two square metres);
- Galleries, cinemas and museums - open with 20 people per space;
- Gyms, fitness studios open to a maximum of 20 people per venue (one person per 8 square metres, 10 per space). Patrons continue to wear face masks unless out of breath. Staggered class times and time gap of 15 minutes to avoid congregation and exceeding group limits;
- Indoor pools up to 20 people or one per four square metres. Indoor trampolining centres for under 18s have the same density requirements as fitness studios; and
- Indoor non-contact community sport allowed for 18 years and under. Maximum of 20 people. Sports capable of 1.5m distancing. Spectators limited to one parent or guardian;
- Funerals indoors a maximum of 20 mourners, outdoors maximum of 50 mourners;
But some measures haven't changed:
- If you can work from home, you must work from home; and
- A mask must be worn at all times outside the home.
Welcome to the coronavirus live blog
Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic for Monday, November 9, 2020.
I'm Ashleigh McMillan and I'll be taking you through the first half of the day. If you'd like to get in touch, you can contact me via email at a.mcmillan@theage.com.au or on Twitter.
Australia recorded another day of no local transmission cases on Sunday. The global death toll has passed more than 1.25 million, with 50 million infections recorded world-wide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Yesterday was particularly significant for Victoria, with Premier Daniel Andrews announcing a raft of new changes - including free movement between metro Melbourne and regional areas - which came into force at midnight.
Thanks for joining us today, hope it's a beautiful one wherever you are.
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