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Proof of vaccination, often referred to as a “vaccination passport”, will be required to gain entry to nightclubs, mass events and large venues in England by the end of this month, the UK government has confirmed.
Nadhim Zahawi.Credit:AP
Nadhim Zahawi, Minister for Covid Vaccine Deployment in Boris Johnson’s government, told Sky over the weekend:
We are looking at, by the end of September when everyone has had the opportunity to be fully vaccinated, for the large venues, venues that could end up causing a real spike in infections ... we need to use the certification process.
The worst thing we can do for those venues is to have a sort of open-shut-open-shut strategy because we see infection rates rise because of the close interaction of people, that’s how the virus spreads, if people are in close spaces in large numbers we see spikes appearing.
The best thing to do then is to work with the industry to make sure that they can open safely and sustainably in the long term, and the best way to do that is to check vaccine status.
You might recall that NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian today released modelling from the Burnet Institute about intensive care demand and capacity in the state as COVID-19 cases rise.
NSW recorded 1281 new coronavirus cases in the community in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday and five more deaths.
The modelling, which you can take a look at here, predicts that in 12 local government areas of concern in NSW, coronavirus cases will continue increasing until mid-September. These areas are expected to record a combined 1100 to 2000 new cases per day.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Monday.Credit:Edwina Pickles
“A peak in hospital and ICU utilisation will follow. It is anticipated that between 2,200 and 3,900 people will require hospitalisation,” NSW Health says.
The full list of areas of concern is here, and it includes Blacktown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Fairfield and parts of Penrith. The government has previously said that more than 80 per cent of new COVID-19 infections are being detected in these areas.
After mid-September, NSW Health believes vaccine-acquired immunity will start kicking in and driving down case numbers, with restrictions also playing a part.
Hospitalisations are expected to peak in October at 3,434 (which includes COVID and non-COVID cases), and the intensive care capacity is expected to peak in early November at 947 patients (again, a figure that includes non-COVID cases).
As the NSW Premier made clear, the modelling is based on a number of variables and assumes that people adhere to existing restrictions.
Liberal Senator Jane Hume, the Minister for Women’s Economic Security, has defended the Morrison government against accusations it has not gone far enough in implementing recommendations of the Respect@Work national inquiry into workplace sexual harassment.
Last week, the federal government enacted six of the inquiry’s 55 recommendations but did not adopt a centrepiece reform to impose a positive legal duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment.
Minister for Women’s Economic Security, Jane Hume.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Senator Hume had this to say to the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas this afternoon:
Of the 55 recommendations, not all were directed to government; some were directed to state governments and some were directed to businesses.
Of the 15 that were to government, there were a number that were legislated last week and they’re really about strengthening the framework around sexual harassment and sexual violence, which is really important to do.
There are some recommendations that are more complex and more work is required on those and more work is currently being done. The others should be directed to business.
There’s some that didn’t require legislative change, things like the Respect@Work Council, that’s something we’ve already implemented. This is one part of the puzzle.
The Respect@Work council brings together leaders from government regulators and policy makers that have oversight of sexual harassment policies and complaints, and is aimed at improving clarity and consistency across existing laws.
Asked why the government had not supported a proposal for ten days’ domestic or family violence leave, Senator Hume said it was “not a policy that’s without implications, both for business and for individuals”.
“We want to hear voices from across the community. There are more than 200 different groups that are represented at the [two-day women’s safety] summit today and tomorrow and they all have very unique perspectives.
“That’s exactly why we want them to inform that next national plan on ending violence against women.”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has returned to Canberra from a brief visit to his family in Sydney after gaining an exemption from health authorities to cross the border with NSW.
With state borders closed across the country, Mr Morrison needed approval from the Australian Capital Territory’s chief health officer to make the visit after being in Sydney for Father’s Day on Sunday.
Minister for Families and Social Services and Minister for Women’s Safety Anne Ruston and Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
The arrangement allowed him to return to Parliament House on Monday morning to join Social Services Minister Anne Ruston at a summit on women’s safety and to speak with national security officials face-to-face for a cabinet committee meeting.
Flight radar websites showed that one of the Royal Australian Air Force’s business jets, a Dassault Falcon 7X, flew from Canberra to Sydney on Saturday afternoon in a 25-minute flight and returned to Canberra early on Monday morning.
Victorian health authorities have identified a number of new tier-1 COVID-19 exposure sites, including two medical clinics, a bar, a courier business and a smash repair place to add to a primary school, supermarkets and community centre listed earlier in the day.
A number of the new sites are tier-1 or close contact, meaning anyone who attended them during the specified timeframes must immediately get tested for COVID-19 and quarantine for 14 days from the exposure, regardless of whether they receive a negative test result.
Supermarkets are among the new exposure sites.Credit:SMH
The new tier-1 sites are:
- Aitken Hill Pre-School Community Centre, Craigieburn - Wednesday, September 1 and Thursday, September 2 between 7.50am and 5pm
- Newbury Child and Community Centre, Craigieburn - Tuesday, August 31 and Thursday, September 2 between 8.30am and 4pm
- Coles, Wyndham Village Shopping Centre, Tarneit - Friday, September 3 between 12.40pm and 2.10pm
- Madina Halal Meats, Hoppers Crossing - Thursday, September 2 between 12.40pm and 1.20pm
- Ilim College Glenroy Campus, Hadfield - Wednesday, September 1 and Thursday, September 2 between 9am and 3.30pm
- Speed Queen Equipment Sales, Thornbury - Thursday, August 26 between 8.05am and 5pm, Friday, August 27 between 8am and 5pm, Tuesday, August 31 between 7.55am and 5.30pm, and Wednesday, September 1 between 8.10am and 5pm
- Leanna Coffee, Pies, Vietnamese Rolls, Northcote Plaza Shopping Centre, Northcote - Thursday, September 2 between 1pm and 2.10pm
- Francesca’s Bar, Northcote, Thursday, September 2 between 11am and 1pm and Friday, September 3 between 11am and 1.30pm
- IGA Xpress Fawkner, Tuesday, August 31 between 8.28am and 5.30pm
- CouriersPlease Truganina, Wednesday, September 1 between 11.30am and 7.40pm
- Q1 Medical Hoppers Crossing Saturday, September 4 between 10.13am and 11.35am
- X-Treme Smash Repairs, Sunshine North - Monday, August 30 and Tuesday, August 31 between 7.45am and 5.30pm; Friday, September 3 between 7.45am and 4.55pm; Thursday, September 2 between 7.45am and 5.30pm
- Yarraville Specialist Centre, Yarraville - Friday, September 3 between 9.50am and 11.10am
The remainder of the new sites are tier-2, which require people to get tested urgently and isolate until receiving a negative result. Those sites are are:
- Coles, Roxburgh Village, Roxburgh Park - Wednesday, September 1 between 6.30pm and 8.30pm
- Coates Hire, Campbellfield - Friday, September 3 between 7am and 8.30am
- Woolworths, Greenvale Lakes, Roxburgh Park - Sunday, August 29 between 12pm and 5.30pm (the Health Department will contact some tier-1 contacts)
- Future Cabinet, Thomastown - Friday, August 27 and Wednesday, September 1 between 8am and 5.30pm
- iAthletic, Brunswick East - from Monday, August 30 to Wednesday, September 1 between 9am and 5.30pm, and Thursday, September 2 between 9.15am and 12.30pm (the Health Department will contact some tier-1 contacts)
- Woolworths, Pacific Epping - Friday, September 3 between 11am and 2pm
- Costco, Epping - Thursday, September 2 between 4pm and 5.30pm
- Chemist Warehouse, Hoppers Crossing - Friday, September 3 between 12.15pm and 1.10pm
- @7 Cafe, Wyndham Village Shopping Centre, Tarneit - Thursday, September 2 between 12pm and 1.05pm
- Aldi, Tarneit Central, Tarneit - Friday, September 3 between 1.40pm and 2.40pm
- Apartment Complex, 21 Moore Street, Moonee Ponds - Friday, September 3, Saturday, September 4 and Sunday September 5 between midnight and 11.59pm
- Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses, Keilor Park, Thursday, September 02 between 7am and 4p; Friday, September 3 between 7am and 5.40pm and Saturday, September 4 between 7am and 12.30pm
A full list of Victorian exposure sites can be found here.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison opened a two-day women’s safety summit today by saying there hasn’t been enough progress when it comes to attitudes towards women and domestic violence.
His comments have not been particularly well received in some quarters.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
As regular contributor Kristine Ziwicka writes today, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins made 55 recommendations after the national Respect@Work inquiry to make workplaces safer for women:
But last week, the Morrison government ensured that only six of those recommendations made their way into law and scuppered attempts by Labor and the Greens to implement the centrepiece of Jenkins’ report – a positive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment from happening in the first place.
Make no mistake: history will remember this moment as a key milestone in Australia’s #MeToo journey – and Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his newly minted taskforce for women will prove to be on the wrong side of that history.
The government also joined with One Nation to block other amendments to the Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill. These would have changed workplace laws to ban sexual harassment, protected victims of sexual harassment from massive legal bills, and reviewed the Fair Work system to ensure that sexual harassment – using the definition in the Sex Discrimination Act – was expressly prohibited.
This was a significant missed opportunity.
NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro says the curfews in south-western and western Sydney have not worked, and were only introduced following media pressure.
At a briefing of regional media on Monday, Mr Barilaro said he would not support a curfew for Dubbo, despite rising coronavirus case numbers.
NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro.Credit:Kate Geraghty
“So the idea of a curfew is one that was put in place in an area that was so out of control and you would question its ability to work ... If you look at the numbers since we put the curfew in, nothing has occurred, nothing has changed; numbers continue to rise,” he said.
He said a curfew in Dubbo would do “nothing more than hurt the wellbeing of that community.”
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that all of New Zealand outside Auckland will step down one level of coronavirus restrictions from tomorrow night, while Auckland will remain under strict lockdown until at least next week.
Under the new rules, New Zealand outside of Auckland will move from level three to level two restrictions at 11.59pm on Tuesday, allowing people to return to work and school.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.Credit:AP
The level two restrictions will be tighter than usual in a bid to combat the highly transmissible Delta strain of COVID-19 and will include mandatory masks in most indoor settings, except while eating and drinking. There are also strict caps on the number of people who can attend venues.
“We are within sight of elimination, but we cannot drop the ball,” Ms Arden said.
Asked whether she believed it was achievable to get to zero cases, Ms Ardern said: “I would rather get there and declare what we’ve achieved than to get too far ahead of ourselves.
“What I don’t want to do is make the mistake of moving too quickly and then seeing a resurgence because that has happened with Delta before.”
Auckland will remain to stay at the most restrictive level four setting until at least next Thursday.
Under the new rules, authorities will also begin surveillance testing for people who must travel outside the border of the city.
Earlier, the country reported 20 new community cases of COVID-19, the third day in a row at that level, suggesting that restrictions were having an effect on the outbreak.
The country reported 20 new community cases each on Sunday and Saturday, well below the Delta outbreak’s peak of 83 cases on the previous Sunday.
A Sydney woman who was denied entry to Western Australia to see her dying mother has been granted an exemption and is now in hotel quarantine in Perth.
Emma Potter told WAtoday last week she sought an exemption to enter WA after being encouraged by comments from Police Commissioner Chris Dawson that NSW residents could still enter the state if a relative was in palliative care.
However, her four attempts to obtain an exemption through the G2G app were rejected minutes after applying.
Ms Potter’s mother has early onset Alzheimer’s and lives in a Perth nursing home, where she was recently put into palliative care after an infection caused her illness to become terminal.
NSW was declared an ‘extreme’ risk state on August 26, which removed compassionate grounds as an exemption category, virtually shutting off all travel between the states except for politicians.
However, Mr Dawson reassured the public last week that all assessments involving extreme circumstances, which included relatives in palliative care, would be personally reviewed by himself or Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson.
The federal COVID-19 task force commander, Lieutenant-General John Frewen, says supply is no longer an issue for the country’s vaccine rollout.
General Frewen said Australia would have about twice the number of mRNA vaccine doses – which includes Pfizer and Moderna - as expected this month.
“We’ll get moving as fast as we can,” he told radio station 3AW.
Lieutenant-General John Frewen. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Moderna vaccines should be rolling out into people’s arms in coming weeks, through pharmacies, by about September 20.
General Frewen said Victoria’s vaccination targets could be reached sooner than initially anticipated, to aid the state’s slow release from lockdown.
“Supply and distribution are not the key challenge now. The key challenge now is really about the willingness of people to come forward. It’s just really important now that we keep urging people to, if they haven’t made a booking, to get a booking in the system and if they’ve had their first dose to get their second dose done.
“It really now comes down to public willingness to get vaccinated.”
General Frewen said public willingness was encouraging, with 80 per cent wanting to get vaccinated and another 14 to 15 per cent still considering their position.
He said he would not take those figures for granted and would continue to push for as many people as possible to get clear information and to get vaccinated.
The number of people who would not get vaccinated had been low, he said, estimated to be about 5 to 6 per cent of the population.
“There just isn’t time for complacency now, everything’s in place, but we’ve just got to hit it with urgency.”
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