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Watch live: Victoria’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley and Department of Health secretary Naomi Bromley are due to provide a coronavirus update from 11.15am AEDT.
Watch live below.
Meanwhile, WA Premier Mark McGowan is due to speak around the same time.
We apologise for our live feed not coming through. We will recap the press conference for you shortly.
A breakdown of Victoria’s new COVID-19 cases
By Cassandra Morgan
Victoria’s deputy secretary for the COVID-19 response, Naomi Bromley, has just provided a breakdown of the state’s new 1612 cases.
They are:
- In Melbourne’s northern suburbs, 499 cases, including 169 in Hume;
- In the western suburbs, 427 cases;
- In the eastern suburbs, 95 cases;
- In the south-eastern suburbs, 459 cases including 174 in Casey, and 109 in Greater Dandenong;
- In regional Victoria, 122 cases, including 18 in Baw Baw, 16 in Latrobe, 15 in Greater Shepparton and 36 in Mildura; and
- Another 10 cases elsewhere.
Ms Bromley said 22 per cent of the new cases were aged over 50, as were 58 per cent of Sunday’s hospitalisations.
She said there were now 90 active cases in Mildura and about 1600 COVID-19 tests were performed in that area on Sunday.
The local government area that recorded the most new cases was Casey in Melbourne’s south east, Ms Bromley said.
“We have been expressing concern about the south-eastern suburbs for a few weeks now,” she said during Monday’s coronavirus update.
“We have been standing up vaccination capacity in the areas.”
Victorians over 60 now eligible for Pfizer, Moderna
By Cassandra Morgan
From now, Victorians aged 60 and above can receive all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines at state-run clinics.
Health Minister Martin Foley said the change was able to be made due to relative certainty of the supply of both Pfizer and Moderna jabs.
“This change, which is now in effect, has been made possible by the relative certainty we now have for both … Moderna and Pfizer and the extraordinary number of young people who have come forward over the past three and a half weeks,” he said during Monday’s COVID-19 update.
“In fact, Victoria is well on the way to becoming one of the world’s most vaccinated jurisdictions.”
He said the “walk-up process” for Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, put in place last week, was essentially going to be permanent.
“So, you can now walk up to any of our major vaccination centres for your highly effective mRNA vaccine, be it Moderna or Pfizer,” Mr Foley said.
Two women, six men die with COVID-19 in Victoria
By Cassandra Morgan
As we reported earlier, another eight people have died with COVID-19 in Victoria.
They are: a woman in her 70s and a man in 60s from Darebin, a man in 40s from Port Phillip, a man in his 80s from Maribyrnong, a man in 80s from Brimbank, a man in his 70s from the City of Melbourne, a man in his 70s from Glen Eira and a woman in 70s from Whittlesea.
Health Minister Martin Foley said there are 677 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Victoria. Of those, 133 are in intensive care and 94 are on a ventilator.
Wait for vaccine passport ‘not a delay’ to NSW reopening: Premier
By Mary Ward
While 50,000 Victorians have vaccination certificates linked to their state’s government services app, NSW’s integrated QR check-in and vaccine passport has only just gone online, with a trial of 500 residents in Tamworth, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga and Lismore councils starting this week.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says the delay in rolling the app out to the general public continues to be caused by issues with acquiring vaccination data from the federal government.
“[The app] was never going to be an impediment in relation to opening up,” he said.
The Premier asked people to not let “perfection be the enemy of the good”, noting it was relatively easy to use the Medicare app to show vaccination status.
“If you use your Medicare app, it’s got your immunisation certificate on there,” he said.
“I did it last night. It took about 30 seconds to do it. And if you don’t want to use the app, you can contact Services Australia and download your immunisation certificate, print it out, take it along as well.”
NSW Premier says government will take action against Star if laws have been broken
By Angus Thompson
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says the government will take action against Star Entertainment if it has been found to have broken any laws following revelations it allowed suspected money laundering, organised crime, and foreign interference activities to take place within its casinos.
Mr Perrottet said reports in this masthead about Star’s cultivation of high-rollers allegedly associated with criminal or foreign-influence operations were “concerning”, but said a review by the gaming regulator was being undertaken.
“That’s due to be presented and finalised by March next year. So obviously we’ll consider that. But if there’s any breaches, well, obviously, we’ll take the appropriate action,” Mr Perrottet said.
“If anything comes to light in the meantime, were we provided advice that appropriate action needs to be taken, I can assure you it will.”
Six men and two women die from COVID-19 in Sydney
By Mary Ward
As reported earlier this morning, eight people have died from COVID-19 in NSW since yesterday’s update.
NSW Health has said in a statement the deaths were in six men and two women. Four were from western Sydney, two were from south-west Sydney, one from Sydney’s north shore and one from Sydney’s inner west.
One of the deaths, a woman in her 90s, was a resident of the Allity Beechwood Aged Care Facility in Revesby, in the city’s south west. She was fully vaccinated and had underlying health conditions. She is the sixth resident to die during the facility’s virus outbreak, which has grown to 28 cases including 24 residents.
The remaining deaths were a person in their 40s, a person in their 50s, three people in their 60s, a person in their 70s and a person in their 80s.
There were 769 NSW COVID-19 cases in hospital on Monday, including 153 people in intensive care, 71 of whom require ventilation.
NSW Premier wants to reopen to Victoria ‘as quickly as possible’
By Mary Ward
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews had a constructive discussion about their shared border on the weekend.
Mr Perrottet said Victoria was “a few weeks behind” NSW in terms of case numbers and had a “slightly more conservative” road map for reopening.
“I want that Victorian and NSW border open as quickly as possible,” he said, noting Mr Andrews had expressed a similar sentiment, although his main focus was managing rising cases and hospitalisations.
The NSW Premier said the easing of restrictions in his state today should be seen as a “beacon of hope” by Victorians.
“I know it’s a challenging time and, hopefully to everyone in Victoria today, NSW gives them some hope this is what lies ahead.”
Mr Perrottet said the reopening of borders, both interstate and international, would help to ease labour shortages as well as restart the tourism industry.
Conversations have occurred with the federal government to allow more returned travellers to quarantine at home, Mr Perrottet confirmed, following reports the state’s border could reopen to fully vaccinated overseas arrivals as early as November 1.
“Because our vaccination rate is higher, and we’re leading the nation coming out of this, we can help other states in terms of their returning Australians as well; I’m very happy to do that,” Mr Perrottet said.
“If we can get as many Australians home by Christmas, what a great thing that would be.”
More Victorian early learning centres declared COVID-19 exposure sites
By Cassandra Morgan and Adam Carey
More Victorian early learning centres have been identified as COVID-19 exposure sites.
Drouin Early Learning Centre in the West Gippsland region was declared a tier-1 or close contact site on Tuesday, October 5 and Wednesday, October 6 between 9am and 2.30pm, and again on Thursday, October 7 between 9am and 11.30am.
Professor Lynn Corcoran Early Learning Centre at Parkville, in inner-Melbourne, was also declared tier-1 for Thursday, October 7 between 8.50am and 10am.
Anyone who attended those centres during the specified timeframes has to quarantine for 14 days from the exposure, regardless of whether they receive a negative result.
Meanwhile, a restaurant in the Ballarat suburb of Delacombe has been declared an exposure site. The Groove Train is tier 1 for Saturday, October 2 between 12.05pm and 2.45pm.
Meanwhile, VCE students at Northcote High, in Melbourne’s inner north, have been forced to revert to remote learning in their final week of classes for 2021 after a student tested positive to COVID-19.
Parents were emailed on Sunday night to say that all year 12 students must learn remotely until further notice
More Victorian exposure sites can be found on the state government’s website here.
No new cases in Queensland; state to hit 70 per cent vaccination target
By Stuart Layt
Queensland is set to hit the 70 per cent first-dose vaccination benchmark today, as the state records another day of zero community cases.
The state has recorded no cases of community transmission for the sixth day in a row, while just one case was detected in hotel quarantine in a returned traveller.
The result comes after a second “super vaccine weekend” by the Queensland government over the weekend, encouraging people to come out and get their first vaccine or their second dose.
More than 21,000 vaccine doses were given out by Queensland Health on Sunday. This morning, the state’s first-dose figure was sitting on 69.98 per cent, while 52.25 per cent of people had two doses (however, federal vaccination data is often delayed by a couple of days).
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