‘Vaccine won’t give you Covid’: health officials battle anti-vaccination messages in Northern Rivers

Medical professionals living in the Byron Bay region are angry and frustrated after businesses asked vaccinated customers not to enter.

Health officials in NSW have had to reiterate advice over Covid-19 after a number of businesses in Byron Shire were witnessed asking vaccinated customers not to enter their premises under the misapprehension they could shed the virus.

The New South Wales department of health has stressed that it is impossible for people to develop, shed, or spread the virus through receiving a vaccine.

The advice comes after some businesses in the small town of Mullumbimby placed signs in their windows that read: ‘If you have had the Covid-19 vaccine we ask you not to enter for two weeks or longer until any symptoms subside’.

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Source of Melbourne’s Covid-19 Delta strain outbreak found

Melbourne’s outbreak of the highly-infectious Delta Covid-19 strain has been linked to a returned traveler, though questions still remain.

Victoria’s concerning outbreak of the Delta strain of Covid-19 has been linked to a returned traveler, though questions still remain about how it leaked into the community.

The outbreak, known as the West Melbourne cluster, now has at least 14 confirmed cases linked to it, all of which are the highly-infectious Delta strain.

Acting Premier James Merlino confirmed they have now found a genomic match between this cluster and a returned traveler who entered hotel quarantine on May 8 after arriving from Sri Lanka.

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Covid Victoria lockdown restrictions: Melbourne and regional Vic new coronavirus rules explained

New Victorian Covid-19 restrictions have been announced in response to a growing number of cases in the Melbourne coronavirus outbreak. Can you leave home? Is mask-wearing compulsory? Are schools closed? Is travelling permitted? What is the 10km radius for? Here are the new rules

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  Victoria has extended its seven-day “circuit-breaker lockdown” to 14 days in response to the growing Covid cluster in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

  The initial seven-day lockdown applied to the entire state until Thursday 3 June, however on Wednesday 2 June, with over 350 exposure sites, the Victorian government announced the lockdown would be extended for greater Melbourne, with some small changes, until 11.59pm Thursday 10 June.

  The following rules apply from 11.59pm Thursday 3 June to greater Melbourne and regional Victoria.

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Covid-19 Australia: Therapeutic Goods Administration’s move to allow Covid vaccination rewards

Australians could begin to see more Covid-19 vaccine rewards on offer after the nation’s medicine’s watchdog introduced a raft of new measures to improve the information and promotion of jabs.

In a statement on Monday, the Therapeutic Goods Administraion said the new arrangements — to be in place until the end of 2022 — will give health professionals and businesses more flexibility to contribute to the national conversation about vaccines.

“Health professionals can enhance vaccine uptake by publicly supporting vaccination and countering misinformation. Logistical information about when and where to be vaccinated can continue to be communicated,” the TGA said.

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Melbourne finally set for lockdown reprieve on Friday

Senior Victorian government sources say they are very confident the city’s lockdown will not be extended again, ­unless this appears in the state’s Covid figures. 

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Melbourne is set for a lockdown reprieve on Friday.

Senior Victorian government sources say they are very confident the city’s lockdown will not be extended again, ­unless there is a dramatic rise in mystery cases.

Restrictions similar to those that regional Victoria moved to last Friday are expected to instead come into force in the city.

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Victoria records 11 new local COVID-19 cases as aged care home undergoes testing blitz

Victoria has recorded 11 new local coronavirus cases, including two infections at an aged care facility which were announced yesterday.

 

More than 24,000 test results were carried out.

 

A "testing blitz" is underway at the Arcare Aged Care facility in Maidstone after a resident and a nurse tested positive to COVID-19 on Sunday.

 

"Arcare is saddened to advise that we have two new cases of COVID-19 at our Maidstone residence," a statement from the facility read.

 

"One is a 79-year-old resident who lives in close proximity to the first two residents diagnosed.

"The second is an agency registered nurse who last worked at the residence yesterday."

The resident, who had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, is asymptomatic but will be transferred to hospital for public health reasons, coordinated by the Department of Health.

 

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Victoria records four new cases of COVID-19, including two linked to aged care facility

Victoria has recorded four new positive COVID-19 cases, with two announced by health authorities on Sunday and a further two connected with an aged care facility in Melbourne's west revealed later.

More than 29,000 test results were returned and 19,940 vaccinations administered at state-run centres on Saturday.

Two positive cases in addition to those revealed by Victorian health authorities have been confirmed by aged care facility Arcare Maidstone.

They are a 79-year-old resident and an agency registered nurse.

The resident had two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and is asymptomatic but will be transferred to hospital for public health reasons.

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