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

 

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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.

We also debunk claims the dramatic mid-game collapse of an international soccer star was brought on by a coronavirus vaccine, and take the measure of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's carbon footprint.

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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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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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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Victoria COVID restrictions to ease on Friday with 25km radius and masks outside gone in Melbourne

Melbourne’s travel radius will be scrapped and restrictions on gatherings, masks and hospitality will ease under Victoria’s next steps.

On Wednesday, Acting Premier James Merlino held a much-anticipated press conference and said the “state can come back together”.

Regional Victoria has been under more eased restrictions, but metropolitan Melbourne has still had a ban on gatherings, a 25 kilometre travel limit and mandatory masks everywhere since moving out of lockdown last week.

That will all change from 11.59pm on Thursday.

Melbourne’s new restrictions

From Friday, Victorians will have complete freedom of movement with the 25-kilometre travel radius disappearing.

It was put in place to stop Melburnians travelling to the regions over the long weekend, but will be gone in the coming days.

There will be changes to mask rules and residents will only be required to wear them outdoors when they cannot social distance.

Masks will still need to be worn indoors.

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