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COVID’s strain on health system also a drain on intensive care studies
By Adam Carey
The head of nursing at Melbourne University has warned that the pandemic is leaving Victorian nursing staff too overworked and burnt out to contemplate the further study required to become a qualified intensive care nurse.
Teams working in intensive care units in Victorian hospitals are also too stretched to support postgraduate students on placement, despite the extra demand for qualified intensive care nurses, the director of postgraduate studies in nursing at Deakin University says.
An ICU nurse and an anaesthetist attend to a COVID-infected patient inside the ICU ward of Western Health’s Footscray Hospital last year. Credit:Penny Stephens
Professor Marie Gerdtz, the head of the Department of Nursing at the University of Melbourne, said the COVID-19 pandemic was having an impact on the capacity of nurses to take up the further study required to work in critical and intensive care.
Our land abounds in nature strips, and suburban mini golf courses too
By Tammy Mills
A hush came over the crowd as the boy teed off at the 14th hole, par unknown, in Oakover Road, Preston.
He cracked his putter and the ball flew up a ramp and into a tunnel, travelling into a papier mache cow, rolling to the hole via the bovine’s bum.
Hole 14 - dubbed Holey Cow - of the Royal Prestbury mini golf tournament.Credit:Eddie Jim
Welcome to the Royal Prestbury Open Classic, a COVID-safe, 20-hole mini golf tournament created to combat lockdown blues and brighten the day.
No Love lost: Byron says no date, but Love Island goes on regardless
By Karl Quinn
Channel Nine’s sex and romance reality show Love Island will launch a week later than planned as a result of the fallout from the I’m a Celebrity COVID breach that sent the Northern Rivers region of NSW into a snap seven-day shutdown last week.
Originally slated to debut on October 4, the show will now launch on October 11. Nine has not revealed how long it will run but it is expected to be similar to the most recent season of 29 episodes in 2019.
Stay classy, Straya: Promotional material for Love Island Australia, featuring Sophie Monk as a mermaid. Credit:Nine
Though disruptive, a week’s delay counts as a great outcome given the past week’s events, which had threatened to derail the show entirely and throw Nine’s schedule into disarray.
Full V/Line services resuming Monday
By Roy Ward
Full V/Line train services will operate services on all lines from Monday after a COVID-19 outbreak at Southern Cross forced scores of staff into isolation.
The statewide train service will have Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Gippsland and Seymour lines all operating as scheduled while buses will replace trains between Bendigo and Echuca due to upgrade works until October 31.
Southern Cross station in Melbourne.Credit:Darrian Traynor
V/Line said in a message announcing the services that it was sorry for the line disruptions in recent weeks.
“We apologise to passengers who were making permitted journeys over the last two weeks for the disruption to their journey and thank them for their continued patience and understanding while we worked to return train services across the network as quickly and safely as possible,” the statement said.
More information can be found at vline.com.au or by calling 1800 800 007.
PM challenges states, territory to re-open by Christmas
By Rachel Clun
The Prime Minister has challenged state and territory leaders to commit to reopening borders before Christmas, once 80 per cent of the eligible population aged 16 and over has been fully vaccinated.
Scott Morrison reiterated the public health measures that have kept the nation safe but separated during the pandemic had a use-by date on them.
The federal government wants to see internal border closures dumped at 80 per cent fully vaccinated, so families can reunite over the holidays.Credit:Paul Jeffers
“Once you get to 80 per cent of your population that’s vaccinated, well, it’s very clear. I can’t see any reason why Australians should be kept from each other,” Mr Morrison said in an interview with Channel Seven.
“My message is more to Australians that what I’d like them to have for Christmas is their lives back. And that’s within the gift of governments. And that’s a gift I’d like to see us give them.”
WA records no new virus cases
By Aja Styles
UPDATED: Western Australia reported no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.
There are six active cases in hotel quarantine.
WA Health says 18 close and casual contacts of a returned traveller in her 20s, who tested positive for the virus on Friday, have returned negative results but will remain in quarantine as directed.
Contact tracers have identified 51 close and casual contacts linked to a New South Wales truck driver, who returned a positive PCR result for the virus last week.
As of 11am on Sunday, 47 contacts tested negative, with one test result pending and three people still being tested.
WA Health said ongoing investigations found 11 of the original 58 reported close and casual contacts to the truck driver “no longer met their previously determined contact status”.
The list of exposure sites has been updated overnight and are published on the HealthyWA and wa.gov.au websites.
Deputy Premier hits out at PM over Qld border opening for Christmas
By Jocelyn Garcia
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles has criticised the Australian prime minister for giving people false hope about the state opening its borders in time for Christmas.
Speaking to the media on Sunday, Mr Miles said Scott Morrison needed to focus on his job instead of discussing “what should happen in Queensland in 90 days’ time”.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles says he doesn’t think Queenslanders want to let COVID into the state for Christmas. Credit:Matt Dennien
“Frankly, I think the Prime Minister should be more focused on the health and wellbeing of people in New South Wales and Victoria, and on international affairs, than what might happen in Queensland in a few months’ time,” he said.
Good afternoon all
By Roy Ward
G’day everyone! It’s Roy Ward here and I’ll be jumping onto the live blog for the afternoon to come.
I hope everyone is well, it’s been a lovely sunny day in Melbourne so far, spring must be upon us.
Please stick with us this afternoon, we still have plenty more news to come.
‘There’ll be a time to celebrate’: Victorian Premier discourages celebratory gatherings
By Ashleigh McMillan
Premier Daniel Andrews has urged Melbourne Football Club supporters not to gather in large groups today following their AFL Grand Final win, while health authorities say illegal parties last night would have fuelled COVID-19 transmission.
When asked if police would show discretion to Demons fans who might want to celebrate the win together, Mr Andrews the entire state of Victoria was “long-suffering” and supporters should not break COVID-19 restrictions to gather.
“It was a great win by the Melbourne Football Club last night … but on the point that they’re long-suffering, we’re all long suffering,” he said.
“So let’s not any of us do anything that makes this pandemic event longer, makes this lockdown longer.
“There’ll be a time to celebrate.”
COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar said he was “worried” about potential spread from illegal grand final night parties, because “households getting together to watch footy or do anything else is a really high risk”.
“We’ve seen that with the spread, particularly in our northern suburbs and now as it is getting into the south-east, it is household to household transmission that’s driving our growth in numbers,” he said.
“If people did use (the grand final) to get together when they shouldn’t have, there’ll be people walking out of that with COVID transmission as a result, and our health system will have to pick up the pieces in the weeks ahead.”
‘Safe to book [holidays] for Christmas’: NSW Premier
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said people would be able to travel within the state by November and that “it is safe to book for Christmas”.
“Definitely look at November as a month when you can start planning a trip that you may not have been able to have within NSW for a very long time,” she said.
With the state expected to reach 60 per cent double doses in the next 24 hours, Ms Berejiklian said greater freedoms were expected in coming weeks.
However, once the state reaches the 70 per cent double-dose benchmark and restrictions begin to be eased, expected by about mid-October at current rates, Ms Berejiklian warned that temporary restrictions could still be implemented if super-spreader events occurred.
“Between 70 and 80 per cent, if there’s a particular outbreak in a town, suburb or region, health experts have every right to say to the government, this area needs to restrict movement,” she said.
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