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Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley is providing an update on the coronavirus situation.
Watch: NSW COVID-19 update
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Goal of getting 70% of adults vaccinated ‘absolutely achievable’: PM
By Georgina Mitchell
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says it is “absolutely achievable” to have 70% of eligible adults vaccinated, a goal announced on Friday which will allow vaccinated people to avoid some lockdown restrictions.
Speaking to Sydney radio station 2GB on Saturday, Morrison said the goal will then shift to 80%, a vaccination rate which will mean broad lockdowns will not be used in major cities.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison pictured this week.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
An 80% rate will also mean caps on returning Australians will be abolished and all restrictions on vaccinated travellers leaving the country will be removed.
Morrison said Australia’s vaccination program is “cranking up” and delivering more than a million doses each week, to help combat the “far worse” Delta strain which is also now in Queensland.
He said he was pleased the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been “talked down”, is now being embraced.
“Everybody wins from you getting vaccinated,” Morrison said.
Host Chris Smith said a “tin-foil hat, flat earth brigade”, including those who protested last weekend, were doing “endless destruction”.
“I’d agree with that,” Morrison said. “The virus can’t read the placards, it doesn’t care ... it still acts.”
The Prime Minister urged people to talk to their doctors about which vaccines are suitable for them, not read posts on Facebook which tell them they’re going to turn into magnets.
Queensland CHO urges people to stay home
By Cloe Read
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young urged everyone in the restricted areas to stay home unless it was absolutely critical.
On Friday, a 17-year-old student at Indooroopilly State High School in Brisbane’s inner west tested positive for COVID-19.
She was tested after becoming unwell on Thursday and was deemed to have been infectious in the community since Tuesday, having attended the school for two days.
Dr Young said contact tracers were working through the connections to the school, adding that the medical student had “been to a lot of venues”.
Indooroopilly State High School in Brisbane’s inner-west has been listed as a close contact exposure site after a 17-year-old student’s COVID-19 infection, so far unlinked, was reported on Friday.
Three of Queensland’s latest COVID ‘incursions’ still not linked to a source.
“She has been to a lot of venues, a lot of places, at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, at the University of Queensland, at the Translational Research Institute [at the Princess Alexandra Hospital], and also she has a sibling who works in a hospital,” she said.
The school will remain closed for up to two weeks, with Education Minister Grace Grace saying all students and staff who were at the school on the morning of Tuesday, July 27, and all day Wednesday, July 28, must isolate at home during the fortnight.
A COVID-19 testing site was set up at the school and will operate from 8am on Saturday for staff and student contacts.
The University of Southern Queensland’s Springfield campus, west of Brisbane, also closed after three university staff attended an event at the school on Thursday.
The new rules for Queensland councils
By Mathew Dunckley
The councils where the rules, which will apply until 4pm on Tuesday, are Brisbane City; Moreton Bay Regional Council; Gold Coast; Ipswich; Lockyer Valley Regional Council; Logan City; Noosa Shire Council; Redland City; Scenic Rim Regional Council; Somerset Regional Council; and Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
Mr Miles said the aim was to “go hard and go early”.
He laid out what that means including:
- Only four reasons to leave home: to obtain essential goods - for example, groceries and medications - but only within 10km of our homes; essential work, school, or child care although school or child care is only for essential workers or vulnerable families;
- High schools will, for the first time, have masks for teachers, students and everyone in the school;
- Exercise with only one person who is not from your household, but you must do so within your local area so, that 10km restriction applies to exercise;
- For healthcare, to care for somebody who needs assistance, to get your COVID-19 vaccination or to get a COVID-19 test;
- There will be no visitors to homes within those 11 LGAs;
- Funerals and weddings will be restricted to 10 people within those 11 LGAs from 4:00pm today;
- Non-essential businesses will not be permitted to open. Hospitality - pubs, clubs, cafes - will be restricted to takeaway only;
- Cinemas, entertainment venues, hairdressers, gyms, places of worship will all be closed.
Queensland cases are delta variant
By Mathew Dunckley
Deputy Premier Stephen Miles said all of the six local coronavirus cases were confirmed as being Delta strain infections.
“We know from that experience that this Delta strain can spread very, very quickly,” he said.
“We have seen from the experience in other states that the only way to beat the Delta strain is to move quickly, to be fast, and to be strong. That is now the nationally agreed approach.”
The affected council areas will go into lockdown from 4pm on Saturday. The council are the 11 areas that already have mask-wearing rules.
School outbreak grows
By Cloe Read
Queensland recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 in total with one case in hotel quarantine.
Six of the new cases are related to the school student cluster in Brisbane’s west and one was an overseas case.
The six cases are linked to the Indooroopilly State High School cluster, where a 17-year-old student tested positive on Friday.
The new cases are the student’s family members, both parents, two siblings, a medical student and a staff member from the school.
Queensland announces lockdown of 11 councils
The Queensland government has announced a lockdown of 11 local government areas after detecting six locally acquired cases of coronavirus.
Watch: Queensland COVID-19 update
Queensland’s Deputy Premier, Health Minister and Chief Health Officer are giving a coronavirus update at 10am.
Victorian authorities will give their update at 10.30am.
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Lanes of major Sydney roads closed due to police operation
By Georgina Mitchell
Lanes of major Sydney roads have been closed citybound as part of a large police operation, believed to be linked to the exclusion zone in the CBD.
Traffic is heavy in some of the areas. If you need to travel, follow the directions of NSW Police.
These are the closures:
- Annandale: Only one citybound lane of Parramatta Rd is open near Johnston St
- Zetland: One northbound lane of Southern Cross Dr is open near Link Rd
- Artarmon: One citybound lane of the Pacific Hwy is open near Campbell St
- Artarmon: One citybound lane of the Gore Hill Fwy is open at Hampden Rd
- Rozelle: One citybound lane of Victoria Rd is open near Robert St
- Sydney Harbour Tunnel: The tunnel is closed in both directions
- Lilyfield: One of two citybound lanes of City West Link is closed at Catherine St
We’ll update this list as more closures are announced.
Police patrol Hyde Park on Saturday, to enforce an exclusion zone in place in the CBD.Credit:Nick Moir
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