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Watch live: Victoria’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews and COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar are due to provide a coronavirus update from 11.45am AEST.
Watch live below. And stay tuned from an address from the Prime Minister at midday.
Victoria’s new COVID-19 death a man in his 60s
By Cassandra Morgan
Victorian health authorities say a man in his 60s has died with COVID-19.
The man’s death comes after the state’s Chief Health Officer reported on Wednesday that two women in the state died with COVID-19: one in her 60s and another in her 40s.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the Chief Health Officer would have more information about the man in their daily update, coming this evening.
ACT records 18 new cases of COVID-19
By Broede Carmody
The ACT has recorded 18 new cases of COVID-19.
Of those, thirteen are linked to known cases and five are still under investigation.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr says more essential workers need to wear their masks properly.Credit:Elesa Kurtz
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has urged Canberrans to come forward for testing, wear masks properly and check-in using the mobile app.
“Come forward quickly if you have any symptoms. We’re starting to see people waiting, when they start developing symptoms, before they get tested. This will reduce the time you’re infectious in the community.
“Wearing your mask under your chin is useless. We’re also having some cases of staff not checking in to their workplace. This is why we still have some cases under investigations.”
NSW Premier confident vaccination will facilitate return to school
By Mary Ward
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been asked how a return to school will be viable given several schools in the state are being shut each day following COVID-19 exposures when fewer than 5 per cent of children are in class.
“Firstly, teachers will be vaccinated and there will be a higher rate of vaccination in the adult population,” she said in response.
“We anticipate there will also be vaccination in 12 to 15-year-olds which doesn’t exist currently.”
NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Marianne Gale said cases in children in this outbreak which had resulted in hospital closures were largely occurring in the areas most affected by community spread and the result of transmission among household groups rather than in the school itself.
Earlier in the press conference, NSW Chief Psychiatrist Murray Wright gave some tips wellbeing tips for primary school students, some of whom will be home learning until November 8.
“It goes without saying that children are every bit feeling the restrictions that we are all working under as much as us adults,” he said, adding that students could express their distress by acting our, becoming clingy or dependent, or withdrawing.
“Quite often the things which are upsetting to our children are actually things that they have overheard, misunderstood or misinterpreted. It is really important to try and have these conversations and to validate their distress, to acknowledge the things that they are missing out on.”
Dr Wright suggested raising these issues as a regular conversation as a family.
Future of Delta management will be ‘self-monitoring’, hospitals to better share load: NSW Premier
By Mary Ward
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been asked about long delays experienced by some confirmed cases in receiving phone calls from health authorities, after NSW Health moved to make a text message their first form of communication with people who return a positive test.
The Premier said, while contact tracers were “doing incredibly well given the circumstances”, the future of management of the Delta strain once vaccination rates are higher would depend on a level of “self-monitoring”, although people needed to be proactive now.
Dr Marianna Gale says a Sydney woman in her 30s has died with COVID-19. Credit:Kate Geraghty
“Without giving away anybody’s private circumstances, some people who are very sick aren’t getting a test until right at the last minute,” the Premier said, adding “the job of our contact tracers is made easier if people get tested as soon as they think they may have been exposed”.
Earlier in the press conference, NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Marianne Gale announced a Sydney woman in her 30s had died with COVID-19 on Wednesday after testing positive on Tuesday.
The Premier said part of the state’s plan over the next “couple of weeks” would be to share the COVID-19 caseload better among hospitals.
“I will have more to say about this next week, but I am keen to have the clinicians themselves and our experts themselves explain this rather than coming from a politician, to give everybody the degree of comfort I have,” she said.
Ms Berejiklian thanked health workers in the state for continuing to provide high standards of care under tough conditions.
NSW Premier to disclose hospital plan next week, says ‘different procedures’ may be in place during virus peak
By Mary Ward
As NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced earlier, the state will be publishing details of its hospital surge and ICU capacity online next week.
At this morning’s coronavirus update, the Premier said all available modelling indicated September and October would be the most challenging months for the state’s hospital system.
“I want to make very clear that every day there are models that are presented from within the experts we have in NSW, but also externally from non-government organisations,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“And nobody is going to get the exact figure right, no one is going to get the exact day right, but I have been very open with the information I have.”
The Premier said it was on the public record that “at any given time, you have been 500 and 600 ICU beds”.
“We don’t intend to use every single bed that is available in our plan, let me make that clear,” the Premier said.
Ms Berejiklian added it was likely “different procedures” would be in place during this time, such as people being taken to hospitals which may not be the closest to their home.
“Just because you hear about something being done differently, I don’t want people to be concerned by that because that is what is in our pandemic plan,” she said.
“That is what we have planned and prepared for.”
New Zealand records 28 new cases of COVID-19
By Chris Zappone
New Zealand has reported 28 new, locally acquired cases of COVID-19.
There were 49 new cases of coronavirus announced yesterday.
The outbreak, sparked this month by a returnee from New South Wales, triggered a nationwide lockdown.
This week, PM Jacinda Ardern lowered the lockdown level for all areas outside of Auckland.
Auckland, where most of the outbreak has occurred, remains at the highest level.
Health authorities concerned by ongoing sewage detections in regional NSW
By Mary Ward
NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Marianne Gale says health authorities remain concerned by ongoing sewage detections in parts of regional NSW which have not recorded any cases.
Dr Gale asked people in Jindabyne, Cooma and Bega, in southern NSW, Bomaderry in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven region, Wauchope on the mid north coast and Blayney in western NSW to be particularly alert to symptoms given the positive detections.
NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has urged regional communities to get tested for COVID-19. Credit:Kate Geraghty
There were 60 new cases in the state’s west and far west in the 24 hours to 8pm last night, including 11 new cases reported in Bourke.
“For the community in Bourke, this is the highest rate [of cases] in any reporting period, so we are calling on the community to come out and get tested,” NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro said.
Cases are also rising in the Hunter New England areas (11 cases overnight) and the Illawarra (with 13 new cases).
Mr Barilaro praised the community of Parkes which increased its first dose vaccination coverage from 36 per cent to more than 66 per cent over the past week.
A record 1431 daily cases, 12 deaths in NSW
By Mary Ward
NSW has reported 1431 new local coronavirus cases on Friday and 12 deaths which have been attributed to the virus.
It is the highest number of cases and deaths recorded in the state within a 24-hour period.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian arriving for Friday’s coronavirus update. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
The deaths included people aged in their 30s to their 90s. They were:
- A woman in her 30s from south-west Sydney who died at home on Wednesday. Investigations are underway into the source of her infection. NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Marianne Gale said she had tested positive on Tuesday and was not vaccinated;
- A man in his 70s from south-east Sydney who died at St George Hospital. He was a resident of St George Aged Care Facility in Bexley and acquired his infection there. He is the first death linked to this aged care facility;
- A woman in her 70s from south-west Sydney who died at Westmead hospital, where she acquired her infection;
- A woman in her 80s from south-west Sydney who died at Westmead Hospital;
- A man in his 80s from south-west Sydney who died at Liverpool Hospital;
- A man in his 70s from south-west Sydney who died at Concord Hospital;
- A woman in her 70s from south-west Sydney who died at Liverpool Hospital;
- A woman in her 70s from south-west Sydney who died at Liverpool Hospital;
- A man in his 70s from Sydney’s north who died at Hornsby Hospital;
- A woman in her 60s from south-west Sydney who died at Liverpool hospital;
- A man in his 70s from south-west Sydney who died at St George Hospital; and
- A man in his 90s from the Blue Mountains who died at the Hawkesbury Living Aged Care Facility.
“As I have said previously, the best health advice I have is that we anticipate a peak in cases in the next fortnight,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
“The next fortnight is likely to be our worst in terms of the number of cases, but as I have said it is not the number of cases we need to be focusing on but how many of those cases end up in our intensive care wards and hospitals and how many people we have vaccinated.”
There are currently 979 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital in NSW, including 160 people in intensive care. Sixty-three of whom require ventilation.
Watch: NSW’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Marianne Gale are due to provide a coronavirus update from 11am AEST.
Watch live below.
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