Aussie CV-Vaccine Informer: 2021

Wednesday 23 June 2021

Australia politics live update: NSW reports 16 new Covid cases; premier Gladys Berejiklian announces new Sydney restrictions; NZ, WA, Qld and Victoria tighten borders

NSW urgently investigating four mystery cases overnight. Follow all the latest updates, live

NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian gives an update on the state’s Covid outbreak on Wednesday morning. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Mark McGowan has updated the travel advice for NSW – and it goes a little further than Queensland and Victoria:

Following updated health advice related to the Covid-19 outbreak in New South Wales, WA has strengthened its border controls to reduce the risk of the virus coming into the WA community. NSW has transitioned from ‘very low risk’ (with a test and quarantine regime) to ‘medium risk’ under our controlled interstate border, effective from 11am today (23 June).

This returns us to hard border arrangements with New South Wales. Under the medium risk classification, travel from or through NSW is no longer permitted, except for exempt travellers. This also applies to anyone who may have been in NSW since 11 June and has not subsequently been in a ‘very low risk’ State or Territory for 14 days – this includes anyone travelling from the ACT who has travelled into NSW in that time.

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Queensland records no locally acquired COVID-19 cases as state closes borders to six Sydney council areas

Police will ramp up patrols and vehicle intercepts on the Queensland border.(

ABC News: Jennifer Huxley

Queensland has declared more New South Wales local government areas COVID-19 hotspots as the southern state's cluster of the highly infectious Delta variant grows.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said as of 1:00am on Thursday, Queensland will close its borders to Sydney, Bayside, Woollahra, Canada Bay, Inner West and Randwick council areas.

The state already declared the Waverley Council area a hotspot.

Travellers from those areas will be barred from entering the state, while Queenslanders returning from those areas will be placed in hotel quarantine.

Non-Queensland residents who have visited those areas will need an exemption to enter the state and will also need to quarantine.

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Tuesday 22 June 2021

Queensland set to open border to Victorians from Friday

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Credit:Attila Csaszar

“That is great news for people there,” she said during a COVID-19 update on Tuesday. “I know there are a lot of people that would have had their holidays booked to Queensland.”

Ms Palaszczuk said the state’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young felt “comfortable with the way Victoria is at, and we will keep a close eye on NSW.”

The update comes after Victoria recorded no new local cases on Tuesday and as New Zealand prepared to resume quarantine-free travel with the state.

There were two cases recorded in Victoria’s hotel quarantine on Tuesday. More than 13,000 COVID-19 test results were processed in the past 24 hours and more than 15,000 people received their vaccine doses from state authorities.

In NSW, cases continue to grow. The state recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19 in the community on Tuesday – five cases were detected in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday, two of which had already been reported. An additional seven cases were detected after 8pm.

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Ten new local COVID-19 cases recorded in NSW as mandatory masks extended for seven days

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Source: AAP

Ten new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases have been recorded in New South Wales, taking the number of infections linked to a Sydney cluster to 21, amid fresh fears over "fleeting" transmission at a Bondi Junction shopping centre.

The official case tally for Tuesday was five cases, including two announced on Monday. Seven additional cases were detected after the 8pm cut off and will be included in Wednesday's figures.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced extended mandatory mask restrictions on Tuesday, with all people in Greater Sydney, Wollongong and Shellharbour required to wear a face mask while indoors for an additional seven days.

The three new cases included in Tuesday's numbers include a woman in her 60s from the Illawarra, a woman in her 40s from Sydney's northern suburbs, and a woman in her 20s from the eastern suburbs who is believed to have contracted the virus through "fleeting contact" while working at Westfield Bondi Junction.

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How did Brisbane's COVID-19 quarantine hotel breach happen?

Professor McMillan said he does not feel Australia needs to consider extending quarantine to 21 days

ABC News: Ben Harris

Professor McMillan said the hotel quarantine system has been working "very well" based on the latest data, but there were drawbacks.

"We've seen 350,000 people [go] through the system and less than 20 escapes [of the virus]," he said.

"But that has resulted in two lockdowns in Brisbane and a short lockdown in Western Australia and longer lockdowns in Melbourne."

Professor McMillan said if Australia wanted to bring back international students and expats, larger quarantine facilities similar to those at Howard Springs in the Northern Territory would be required.

"We know that 95 per cent of people will be positive by day 14," he said.

"Given the success of the program in terms of the figures, the cases of people who have become positive after testing negative is quite small, so I don't think we need to go to 21 days [quarantine] at all."

Singapore and Hong Kong recently extended their quarantine periods from 14 days to 21 days.

The Commonwealth has recently approved a purpose-built quarantine facility to be built in Melbourne – in addition to one that has been operating in the Northern Territory.

However, a Queensland proposal has been dismissed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on multiple occasions.

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Australia’s vaccine rollout ‘constrained’ by Pfizer supply shortages until August

States and territories say more GPs will be needed to dispense Pfizer when supplies increase later in the year

Australia’s vaccine rollout will be limited by Pfizer supply constraints until deliveries increase from August. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

Shortages of the Pfizer Covid vaccine are expected to slow Australia’s rollout through June and July, as states and territories call on the commonwealth to sign up more GPs to dispense doses when supplies increase in August.

The national cabinet met on Monday to discuss Australia’s coronavirus vaccine rollout in the wake of updated health advice that AstraZeneca is not the preferred vaccine for those aged 50 to 59 due to the risk of rare blood clots.

At the meeting, the head of the rollout, Lt Gen John Frewen, gave states and territories projections of the maximum and minimum number of vaccines they will be allocated. The aged care minister, Richard Colbeck, is expected to table the figures at the Senate’s Covid-19 inquiry on Monday evening.

Before the meeting, the commonwealth agreed to New South Wales’s request for 50,000 Pfizer doses, which Cdr Eric Young told reporters in Canberra would be spread over three weeks.

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Monday 21 June 2021

Long Covid or vaccine side effect fears: the choice is clear for holdouts

Many who are reluctant to get inoculated may fear some unknown long-term side effects of the jab

But they must also consider the risks of being infected and suffering from symptoms for many months because, for the unvaccinated, the world will never truly be safe.

A coronavirus patient breathes through an oxygen mask in a temporary Covid-19 care centre in New Delhi. Photo: dpa

A common reason given by those unwilling to get vaccinated is that they worry about unknown long-term side effects from Covid-19 vaccination. Never mind that these vaccines were developed by some of the brightest scientific minds around, built on decades of research on how medicines can be developed more quickly and safely. Never mind that they have been thoroughly tested and found to be safe, and that we have been using vaccines for over 200 years to prevent the spread of diseases such as measles and chickenpox.

If people are worried about the “long-term” unknown side effects of getting jabbed, they should consider the alternative set of long-term risks they are exposing themselves to. One must ask what risks they are willing to take: either this fear of some long-term unknown side effect of a vaccine, or the well-established risks that getting infected with Covid-19 brings.

The side effects of the vaccine are well known in the short term, and the risk of any long-term side-effects is minute, in the expert opinion of those who developed these vaccines. But what about the risks associated with getting infected?

In the short term, a significant number of people get very sick, and many die. And the long term? An increasing number of studies are reporting people suffering from symptoms for many months after they were infected with Covid-19.

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NSW and ACT Covid-19 exposure sites: map of Sydney hotspots and list of Canberra coronavirus case location alerts

A health worker in Bondi, NSW conducts a Covid test. Check the full list and map of Covid-19 public exposure sites around Sydney and Canberra ACT for coronavirus hotspots and case location alerts.New hot spots have been added at Bondi Junction, Drummoyne, Newtown, Hurstville, Parramatta, Tempe and more. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Here are the current coronavirus hotspots and Covid-19 public exposure sites in Sydney, regional New South Wales and Canberra – including Bondi Junction, Drummoyne and Shellharbour – and what to do if you’ve visited them

Authorities have released a list of public exposure sites in Sydney, regional NSW, and Canberra ACT visited by a confirmed case of Covid-19.

Here are the current coronavirus hotspots, Covid exposure sites, venues and case location alerts and what to do if you’ve visited them. See the full list and map below.

List of NSW and Sydney Covid public exposure sites

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State takes testing to ‘a new level’ in fight against Delta COVID-19 strain

Tens of thousands of people who visited one of Sydney’s biggest shopping centres have been asked to get a COVID-19 test regardless of symptoms as health authorities change their approach in an attempt to “flush out” undetected cases of the fast-spreading Delta variant.

It comes as the eastern suburbs cluster grew to nine cases on Sunday, with three new locally acquired cases reported. Masks are now required indoors across large parts of the city.

Masks are compulsory in seven local government areas - Randwick, Bayside, Canada Bay, Inner West, City of Sydney, Waverley and Woollahra - including in retail, theatres, aged care facilities, for front-of-house hospitality staff and on public transport.Credit:Edwina Pickles

Numerous venues, including several shops at Birkenhead Point shopping centre in Drummoyne, were added to the list of possible exposure sites on Sunday.

NSW Health asked anyone who was at Westfield Bondi Junction, including the car park, at any time on the weekend of June 12 and 13 to get tested but only people with symptoms and those at specific exposure venues at certain times are asked to also isolate.

The most recent cases include a woman in her 30s, a household contact of a man also in his 30s who frequented Westfield Bondi Junction and spent time in Wollongong and a man and woman, both in their 50s from the Sutherland Shire, who were in isolation and are close contacts of existing cases.

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Sunday 20 June 2021

Australia's first locally made COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate is set for clinical trials

The first clinical trials are expected to involve around 150 people, the Victorian government says

He said his team believed this approach was likely to produce a better kind of booster shot for future variants, which could be given to those already vaccinated against the original strain.

The team is also in the early stages of testing an mRNA vaccine candidate modelled on the Kappa variant.

And there's a protein vaccine being trialed as well?

Yes, that's right.

While Monash University has developed an mRNA vaccine candidate, the Doherty Institute has developed a protein vaccine candidate.

Both of them are focused on the receptor-binding domain of the Beta strain, so Professor Pouton said it made sense to work together and run the Phase 1 trial side by side.

The hope is, we'll learn more about whether the approach of targeting the receptor-binding domain is going to be useful to prepare us against future variations.

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Thousands of Brazilians protest against President Jair Bolsonaro as COVID deaths reach 500,000

A person holds a cross reading "500,000 deaths" as people participate in a protest against Brazil's President

Protesters have rallied in 44 cities across Brazil to accuse their government of "genocide" as the country became the second to record 500,000 COVID-19 deaths.

Thousands took to the streets on Saturday to criticise President Jair Bolsonaro's pandemic response, blasting the leader for not acquiring vaccines fast enough.

Brazil has the global pandemic's second-highest death toll, after the United States.

"I am working tirelessly to vaccinate all Brazilians in the shortest time possible and change this scenario that has plagued us for over a year," Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tweeted as the death toll passed 500,000.

The government faced fierce criticism for passing up earlier opportunities to buy vaccines.

Pharmaceutical maker Pfizer said it got no response to early offers to sell vaccines to the government between August and November last year.

"We are protesting against the genocidal Bolsonaro government that did not buy vaccines and has done nothing to take care of its people in the last year," Aline Rabelo, a 36-year-old told Reuters in the capital, Brasilia.

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Multiple Victorian businesses shut down for breaking COVID-safe rules

More than 150 businesses have been found not complying with QR code requirements. (9News)

Several businesses in Victoria have been shut down for COVID-safe breaches.

The state government today confirmed seven Melbourne businesses in retail, hospitality and health and beauty were forced to close for failing to follow correct COVIDSafe protocol.

A retail store in St Albans was shut down for unauthorised trading during lockdown.

A health and beauty business in South Melbourne was also closed for exceeding density limits and having no density quotient signage, no COVIDSafe plan and no QR code check-in system in place.

Fines of $1652 were also handed to a hospitality venue in Essendon and a retail venue in Campbellfield for not having the Victorian Government's QR code check-in system in place.

In the past week authorised officers saw 168 instances of QR code non-compliance.

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Flight attendant tests positive for COVID-19 in Queensland after DFO visit in Brisbane

A woman has tested positive to COVID-19 in Queensland overnight.

Queensland Health said in a statement that the woman, aged in her 30s, had completed 14 days of hotel quarantine at 9:00am on Saturday.

She had returned negative tests during hotel quarantine.

Shoppers who visited DFO in Brisbane on Saturday are being asked to quarantine and await advice from Queensland Health. ABC News: Jim Malo

A follow-up test on June 19 shortly after leaving hotel quarantine — which was as part of routine aircrew surveillance — came back positive on Saturday evening.

The woman has been out in the community, travelling in a private shuttle bus to accommodation in Hamilton, north of Brisbane yesterday morning, before going to the DFO shopping centre near Brisbane airport and the CBD in the afternoon and a restaurant in the early evening.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said while the risk is low she was taking a very cautious approach.

"She came into Brisbane on June 5 on an Emirates flight and we know she had contact with a positive case on that flight who had the Delta variant," Dr Young said.

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Fears AstraZeneca reputation has been ‘tarnished’ beyond repair

Brendan Crabb, director and chief executive of the Burnet Institute.Credit:Jesse Marlow

Vaccination experts say they fear the reputation of the AstraZeneca vaccine could have been tarnished beyond repair in Australia, leaving the population dangerously exposed to coronavirus outbreaks in the months to come.

Following the latest decision by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation to limit the AstraZeneca vaccine to those over 60, doctors say patients have been cancelling their vaccine appointments in droves and abusing receptionists as they demand the Pfizer jab instead.

While top vaccine experts say AstraZeneca may not be as widely used in Australia in future when supplies of alternatives increase, they believe negative public sentiment around the safety of the vaccine is out of proportion with the risks posed by a serious but rare side effect.

Burnet Institute director Brendan Crabb said the AstraZeneca vaccine had proven to be more effective in the real world than predicted in clinical trials. The 54-year-old said he would not hesitate to have his second dose.

“COVID is truly terrible and there’s every chance AstraZeneca induced immunity would stand between me and serious illness,” Professor Crabb said.

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Saturday 19 June 2021

Anti-vaccine activists aim to 'convert' Victorians queuing up to receive COVID-19 jab

Anti-vaccine activists have targeted inoculation hubs in Melbourne.
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In this week's CoronaCheck, we bring you disturbing footage of anti-vaxxers trying to dissuade people queuing at a Melbourne COVID-19 vaccination centre from getting the jab.

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Quest to 'convert' vaccine recipients

Anti-vaccine activists have hounded people queuing outside a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Melbourne in an attempt to convince them not to go ahead with immunisation.

Video appeared to show at least one woman having been swayed by the group's efforts.

Footage shared to the encrypted messaging service Telegram on May 29, and seen by Fact Check, shows a small group approaching people queuing for vaccination outside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC).

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Sydney cluster grows by two cases with new infections linked to Westfield

Westfield in Bondi Junction. (Wolter Peeters)

Sydney's new coronavirus cluster has grown by a two cases, as new alerts were issued for Sydney trains, an Ikea and a cafe as far south as Wollongong.

It brings the cluster to six, with much of the focus of calls to get tested continuing to focus on thousands of people who went to Westfield Bondi Junction last weekend.

There were officially two new cases recorded, but one, a woman in her 70s who crossed paths with the 'patient zero' driver in Belle cafe in nearby Vaucluse was announced yesterday, and another will be in tomorrow's figures.

A woman in her 40s who lives near Westfield Bondi Junction and often walks though is one of the new cases. It's not know when she might have caught the virus but officials say it could have been last weekend.

Sydney's latest exposure sites

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Concerns AstraZeneca advice could spark more vaccine rollout delays

Australia’s vaccine rollout was hit with another blow after advice on the AstraZeneca jab changed, raising concerns over exactly what the impact will be.

A health worker prepares to hold a vial of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine. Picture: Yad Kramdi/AFPSource:AFP

As Australia’s embattled vaccine rollout reels from another blow following the change in advice for the AstraZeneca jab, questions are being raised about the impacts this could have going forward.

So far more than 6.3 million vaccine doses have been administered across the country, but health experts have continually stressed the rollout was progressing quickly enough.

Now, with the recommendation that the AstraZeneca vaccine should only be given to those aged 60 and above after another person died from a blood clot in her brain, there are fears the rollout could be stalled even further.

People aged 50-59 are now being told to get the Pfizer vaccine instead, of which Australia has significantly less doses.

In its initial plan, the Federal Government was aiming to have the majority of the adult population vaccinated by October 2021.

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Should COVID vaccines be compulsory for care home staff? Experts debate

The UK government has announced that COVID-19 vaccination will become mandatory for staff working in care homes for older people in England. Staff will be given 16 weeks to get the vaccine. If they don't get the jab, they will be redeployed from frontline care or lose their job.

Mandating vaccination would increase vaccine uptake in care home workers, but it would be a significant intrusion into individual freedom. Is it ethically justifiable?

Yes—Professor Dominic Wilkinson

In the early phase of the pandemic, some of the most medically vulnerable people ended up catching coronavirus from those caring for them; 40,000 patients in England are said to have caught COVID while in hospital. Some patients and care home residents died from infections that they caught from their caregivers. We must do everything possible to avoid repeating this tragic and distressing situation.

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Friday 18 June 2021

Epidemiologist warns of 'problematic' growth linked to Sydney's COVID-19 Delta strain

Sydney is on alert again after two locally acquired cases.AAP: Jason O'Brien

Sydney is "in trouble" and restrictions need to be brought in "quickly" after it was revealed a limousine driver was found to have the Delta strain of COVID-19, a leading epidemiologist says.

The coronavirus outbreak in Sydney's eastern suburbs grew to four cases today after a man in his 50s tested positive for the virus.

NSW Premier Gladys Ms Berejiklian said the new infection appeared to have contracted the virus while at Myer inside Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction, on June 12.

A limousine driver aged in his 60s was found to be carrying the Delta strain and police are investigating whether he breached quarantine protocols.

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ACT lists two exposure sites after positive COVID-19 case travelled from NSW to Canberra

ACT Health has listed two coronavirus exposure locations.

ACT Health has confirmed a positive COVID-19 case from New South Wales visited the territory on Monday 14 June.

The man in his 40s is from Sydney's north-western suburbs. His test results showed "low virus levels, which NSW Health has not been able to rule out as a possible case of COVID-19".

ACT Health has listed two sites as exposure locations in the ACT.

They are urging those who were at the venues at the specified times to immediately isolate until further advised by ACT Health, get a COVID-19 test and fill in the declaration form available at the ACT Health website.

Health authorities are also asking all those who visited the National Gallery of Australia, including the main gift shop, from 12-2pm on Monday, June 14, to be vigilant for any COVID-19 symptoms, and immediately get tested and isolate if symptoms develop.

ACT Chief Health Officer Dr Kerryn Coleman said this morning that authorities do not think the case is highly infectious.

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Infected nurse worked at second hospital - Will our bureaucrats never learn

A COVID-positive nurse at Epping Private Hospital also worked two shifts at Northern Hospital.

Victoria's testing commander Jeroen Weimar confirmed the woman, who had been treating the state's three hospitalised COVID-19 cases at Epping Private Hospital, also worked shifts at the Northern Hospital in Epping while possibly infectious.

She worked at the Northern Hospital on June 11 and 12 before returning a positive COVID-19 test on Wednesday.

"This appears to be an operational error being made at Epping Private," Mr Weimar told reporters on Thursday.

"It is disappointing, I'm very unhappy about that situation."

Any staff working on a COVID ward and dealing directly with virus patients should not be working elsewhere.

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Thursday 17 June 2021

AstraZeneca vaccine recommended for over-60s only after advice from ATAGI

ATAGI has recommended that only people aged over 60 receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. (AP)

Australia's vaccine rollout has undergone a major shake-up.

The federal government has accepted advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisations (ATAGI) that the AstraZeneca vaccine only be administered to people aged 60 and above.

Health Minister Greg Hunt said the decision to advise AstraZeneca jabs be restricted to over-60s is a "conservative" decision.

"The UK, for example, has an age range of 40 and above, South Korea 30 and above, and Germany has no age limits after 18 and above," he said.

The new advice follows the Therapeutic Goods Administration's report of 12 new blood clot cases linked to the vaccine, with seven of those in people aged 50-59.

Mr Hunt said the Pfizer vaccine would now be accessible to everybody aged 40-59.

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‘Victoria is a powder keg’: Experts fear virus still circulating as testing rate drops

The queue for a COVID-19 test at Normanby Street in South Melbourne on Wednesday.Credit:Paul Jeffers

Coronavirus is still smouldering away in Victoria, infectious diseases experts suspect, as plummeting testing numbers fuel fears of undetected cases circulating in the community.

Melbourne infectious diseases physician Michelle Ananda-Rajah said until vaccine uptake rose substantially, testing remained the most critical measure in Victoria alongside contact tracing to avoid another mass outbreak, but she feared “coronavirus fatigue” was leading to a drop in testing numbers.

“Victoria is a powder keg that could blow at any time,” Dr Ananda-Rajah said. “Right now, we are primed for a third wave because we are largely unvaccinated against the disease. Winter is here and we know infections go up at this time. On top of this, we’ve got more transmissible variants of the virus in the mix.”

COVID response commander Jeroen Weimar said health authorities remain extremely concerned the virus was still circulating after a vaccinated nurse had tested positive and may have been infectious while working at Epping Private Hospital on June 14. “There is a full, instant response team working through the circumstances,” he said on Wednesday.

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Household contact of NSW COVID-19 case tests positive, Bondi Junction listed among Sydney exposure sites

The Bondi Beach COVID-19 testing site has been operational since the early stages of the pandemic.ABC News

The household contact of a new locally acquired case of COVID-19 has also tested positive in Sydney.

On Wednesday afternoon, a COVID-19 case was detected in Sydney's eastern suburbs, sparking an urgent investigation as to its source and warnings for a swathe of venues.

NSW Health said the case, a man from Bondi in his 60s, worked as a driver and that international flight crew had been among his passengers.

A person who lives with the man also received a positive test late on Wednesday evening.

Both men visited the Bondi Junction shopping centre in the city’s east several times in recent days.

Anyone who has been to the following venues must get tested and isolate immediately:

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Wednesday 16 June 2021

Piers Morgan calls for 'selfish' unvaccinated NHS and care home staff to quit triggering an interesting debate

Piers Morgan’s comments have caused controversy once again, this time after he called for unvaccinated NHS and care home staff to leave their jobs.

The former Good Morning Britain host took to Twitter to suggest that NHS and care home staff who refuse to have the Covid-19 vaccine should not be able to continue in their roles.

The tweet, which was posted on the morning of June 16, read: “ NHS and Care Home staff who refuse to be vaccinated need to leave their jobs and do something that requires less reckless selfish disregard for the health & wellbeing of their patients/residents.”

The bold statement divided fans, with some taking a strong stance against his controversial opinion.

One follower called his comments “disgusting” while another told him to “stop this bullish behaviour”.

Some did agree with Piers, with one fan saying: "For once I agree with you Piers. The deaths of elderly and vulnerable in care homes has been catastrophic. They need to be afforded all the protection from this awful disease that we possibly can give them."

The controversial comments come after reports that the government is due to announce that the Covid vaccine will be compulsory for care home staff.

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Wuhan lab leak theory investigations ongoing, 18 months after the arrival of COVID-19

The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been referenced multiple times as a potential original source of the COVID

It's been a year and five months since Australia recorded its first case of the novel coronavirus, after an infected person who travelled from Wuhan to Melbourne tested positive on January 25, 2020.

Despite all that time passing and global researchers trying to get to the bottom of it, we still don't really know how SARS-CoV-2 first came to be.

There's been many a theory — and one particular one about the virus escaping a laboratory in Wuhan doesn't seem to have fallen off the radar, despite a World Health Organization investigation finding no clear evidence that the theory is true.

Just last week, leaders of G7 nations demanded a full investigation of the origins of the coronavirus in China at a meeting in the UK.

That came just days after US President Joe Biden revealed US intelligence agencies were pursuing theories, including a possible laboratory accident in China.

So why are leaders still so hung up on it, and what are they doing to research it further?

D-19 outbreak, but Chinese authorities deny the claims.

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