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Watch live: NSW, Victorian COVID-19 updates
Premier Daniel Andrews, Minister for Industry Support and Recovery Martin Pakula, Assistant Treasurer Danny Pearson & COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar will provide a coronavirus update.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet, Minister for Jobs and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres, Minister for Health Brad Hazzard, and Minister for Digital and Customer Service Victor Dominello are also due speak at 11.30am about businesses re-opening. We will provide the livestream shortly.
NSW Premier urges ‘kindness and respect’ as the state prepares to open up
By Angus Thompson
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has urged people treat each other with kindness and respect as the onus falls on hospitality staff to check prospective patrons are fully vaccinated before they can be seated at venues.
A statewide rollout of the NSW vaccine passport is set to take place next Monday, with a regional trial in certain areas around the state already underway.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has urged kindness and respect for hospitality staff as the state reopens.Credit:Rhett Wyman
With pubs, restaurants and bars set to open from tomorrow at restricted capacities, Mr Perrottet urged customers to treat young hospitality staff heading back to work like family.
“Treat everybody like they’re neighbour’s daughter or son — if we treat everyone with kindness and respect ... we’ll get through this difficult,” Mr Perrottet said.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard fronted the media with a similar message, urging patrons not to hassle staff about evidence of being vaccinated: “Just be honest, be truthful and show the evidence if you’re asked.”
Likewise, Jobs Minister Stuart Ayres said there would be a lot of young people “just trying to do the right thing, stock shells, clean plates at tables. We want to make sure that we treat them with kindness and respect.”
Publican and former federal Liberal MP Craig Laundy said people could screenshot their proof of vaccination from their myGov account and have it as their background on their mobile phones.
NSW records 477 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths.
By Angus Thompson
NSW recorded 477 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and six deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.
According to NSW Health, one new case was acquired overseas and one was acquired interstate in the same period, bringing the total number of cases in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic to 68,523.
Of the people who died, all were men, with two aged in their 50s, one in his 60s, and three in their 70s. One of the men was from western Sydney, one from south-eastern Sydney, two from south-western Sydney, and two from southern New South Wales.
Five of the men were not vaccinated, and one had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
There have been 431 COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since 16 June 2021 and 487 in total since the start of the pandemic.
There are 794 people in hospital with COVID-19, with 159 people in intensive care, 76 of whom need ventilation.
Watch: NSW Health COVID-19 update
By Angus Thompson
Watch as NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty provides a COVID-19 update below.
‘Should be at the table’: NSW Treasurer Matt Kean wants to see Scott Morrison at Glasgow
By Angus Thompson
NSW Treasurer and Environment Minister Matt Kean has said Scott Morrison “should be at the table negotiating Australia’s interests” when asked whether the Prime Minister should be attending the Glasgow summit.
Speaking to Sky News this morning, Mr Kean also said Canberra “at the very least” should take the average medium-term emissions reduction targets of all Australian states and territories and make that its interim plan, after NSW’s recent announcement it would halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says the Prime Minister “should be at the table” at Glasgow.Credit:Edwina Pickles
The Prime Minister is still undecided on whether to go to the Glasgow Climate Change Conference at the end of the month as the Liberals negotiate a net-zero policy with the Nationals, however Mr Kean said Mr Morrison should attend.
“Look, I mean it’s very rare that the Australian Government is invited to participate in an event with the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Chancellor of Germany, I mean some of the most powerful world leaders, the people who are running the world,” he said.
“So obviously, I think that our prime minister should be at the table negotiating in Australia’s interests and negotiating in the planet’s interests.”
NSW Police charged 59 kids, one aged 13, in two-week lockdown blitz
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons
NSW Police charged 59 children, including a 13-year-old, for breaches of the public health orders in their lockdown enforcement blitz in the last two weeks of August.
Documents obtained under freedom of information laws reveal 775 children aged 13 to 17 were also issued with personal infringement notices (PINs), which come with an on-the-spot fine of at least $3000. More than half the 59 children given court attendance notices (CANs) in this period were 15 and under.
Police conduct public health order compliance checks in Sydney.Credit:Brook Mitchell
Overall during the two-week period, men were disproportionately charged and fined for COVID-19 offences. Women received 269 court attendance notices, compared with 1003 for men; and 4448 fines, compared with 11,884 for men.
Eighteen and 19-year-olds received 53 charges and 1229 fines – more than for everyone over 60 combined. People in their 20s received more fines and charges in total than any other age group. Eighteen people in their 80s and four in their 90s were also fined.
Read Caitlin’s full story here
Victoria records 1890 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths
By Benjamin Preiss
Victoria has recorded 1890 new coronavirus cases, a slight decrease on the record-breaking numbers recorded on Saturday.
Five people have died while 74,105 test results were received in the past 24 hours to midnight. There were 39,861 vaccines administered in state-run hubs. There are now 18,342 active cases across the state. Victoria recorded a new national record of 1965 cases on Saturday and five deaths.
Medical staff administering COVID-19 tests in Melbourne.Credit:Getty
Concerns are rising for the border city of Mildura, which entered a snap lockdown on Friday night. Mildura recorded 20 new cases on Saturday, bringing the total to 37.
Across regional Victoria there have been repeated and unexpected coronavirus fragments detected in wastewater.
Singapore opens up travel but long road ahead to reach ‘new normal’
By Chris Barrett
Singapore, has been cast as a test case for nations trying to make the jump from a COVID-zero approach to living with the virus, but it may be as long as six months before the south-east Asian city state returns to the kind of freedoms being experienced in Europe.
In a national address on Saturday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong defended last month’s tightening of restrictions in response to soaring infections, saying it was needed to avoid the health system being overwhelmed.
Singapore is broadening international travel with the addition of quarantine-free lanes with nine more countries.Credit:Bloomberg
Singapore is further opening up international travel, announcing quarantine-free corridors to welcome vaccinated passengers from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea and several more European countries after a successful trial with Germany and Brunei.
But despite a double-dose vaccination rate of 83 per cent, Singapore remains on guard amid confusion about the government’s strategy.
“All of you are understandably anxious. Many have found it difficult to keep up with new policies and changes to measures. I understand your concerns and frustrations,” Lee said.
Read Chris Barrett’s full story here
‘Not until everyone is welcome’: The Sydney businesses choosing to stay closed
By Andrew Taylor
Yoga studios, cafes, a beauty salon and a gym are among the Sydney businesses that will not reopen on Monday over concerns about requiring staff and customers to be vaccinated.
Sydney Yoga Collective, based in Bondi Junction, said it had “no intention of breaching your human rights”, while Hardcore Gym in Carlton, near Hurstville said vaccination passports contravened its values.
“I don’t want to open up until everyone is welcome”: Best Bagel Co. owner Sarah O’Brien.Credit:Brook Mitchell
Other business owners were concerned about potential conflict with customers over vaccine requirements.
Best Bagel Co. owner Sarah O’Brien said she was pro-vaccine but would continue to operate her Cremorne cafe as a takeaway business only. She said requiring staff and customers to be vaccinated had become polarising.
Read the full story here
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer could be sidelined as government ponders more power for ministers
By Sumeyya Ilanbey
The Victorian government is set to consider scaling back the powers of the state’s unelected Chief Health Officer, and giving the Health Minister greater control over public health orders to manage the COVID-19 pandemic.
Almost two years into the crisis, as the state prepares to ease restrictions and learn to live with the virus, Andrews government MPs are now asking when elected officials will get the ultimate power to sign off on public health orders.
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.Credit:Justin McManus
As part of its plan to permanently replace the controversial state of emergency legislation, which expires on December 15, the state government has been drafting specific pandemic laws which are set to be introduced to Parliament within weeks.
A group of government MPs confirmed to The Sunday Age one of the changes to be considered was giving the Health Minister sole authority to sign off on public health restrictions – powers which currently rest with Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.
Read the full story here
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