Victorian Liberal deputy leader David Southwick said the restrictions had placed increased pressure on businesses. Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the decision to restrict density limits further was due to the majority of cases about 40 per cent being recorded in people in their 20s, whomake up the majority of hospitality workers. Its all just exhausting., Karen McVean, a Melbourne-based remedial massage therapist, has chosen a different approach. Victorians displayed enough collective adhesion to the strict public health orders that were in place to make those orders effective. While resources were poured into the department to cope with the unprecedented demands during the pandemic and some structural changes were made most notably the creation of local public health units more work undoubtedly needs to be done. Everyone is trying (and failing) to make sourdough. But of course we are not living in normal times, everything, including the flu, is now politicised. It's what young people do and we don't begrudge them that," he said. Tattoo and massage parlours can reopen with up to ten clients. We must invest in these community partnerships to ensure all communities are more resilient and protected. These key charts will show if thats happening, NSW Covid update: health officials increasingly confident cases will plateau next week, Unions say exemption to allow Covid-positive people to work at SA meatworks sets dangerous precedent, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The state government put Melbourne into its second lockdown in early July after cases exceeded 100 cases per day. "It is a true lockdown, but of course it wasn't announced and therefore we haven't entered it all at once, and because it wasn't announced or planned, we're not going to be able to exit it all at once either," he said. There are many venues who have given feedback that they are not at 100 per-cent capacity and havent been for quite some time, he said. In case you missed it, the Sydney removalists who carried the virus to an apartment block in the Melbourne suburb of Maribyrnong have not been as forthcoming as authorities would like regarding the details of their trip. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. are permitted to leave the ship in Sydney without being tested for Covid-19. The above numbers came from the same article here. Its been revealed when Australia will experience the next Covid surge, but one state is expected to reach its peak much sooner than the rest. Theres still high chances of new variants. NSW cases rise to 20,794 and Victoria jumps to 8,577 but PM vows Australia will NEVER go back into lockdown because infection numbers 'DON'T matter and Omicron can be managed like the flu' A further two cases were family members of Ariele apartments residents and one case was believed to have been infected at Coles in Craigieburn where a family returning from a red zone were not isolating. But perhaps most frustrating was the news that the crew have not been cooperating with contact tracers who only today found out there were two trucks involved. The rules have been introduced to curtail the tens of thousands of cases reported each day, as the virus spreads like wildfire in the community. Victoria recorded seven new cases early on Wednesday. If the devastating impact of COVID on aged-care centres is not enough to catalyse meaningful reform in this sector in Australia, then nothing will. What does is Victorians got vaccinated at a rate that surpassed all expectations. More than 2000 people who attended an MCG match between Carlton and Geelong on July 10 are also on alert after the game was attended by an infected person. He also feels the loss of the sense of collective action which, for some, underscored the long lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant called out a number of suburbs of concern, highlighting the need for high rates of testing. Try another? pic.twitter.com/YfNptxyua5. While session tickets were capped at 50 per cent last week, the opening day saw 25,206 attendees on Monday. To go on holiday, particularly interstate, people have been required to get tested. Authorities confirmed seven cases were linked to a returned family and a crew of removalists, who both came into the state from NSW. Victoria on Thursday confirmed. Local lockdown orders are reinstated in the northern beaches. Here's how likely you are to get it more than once, Charting the COVID-19 spread: Australia passes 10,000 coronavirus deaths, Self-help author Marianne Williamson launches primary challenge against Joe Biden for 2024 Democratic nomination, Chinese migrants walked a gruelling 500km to Victoria's goldfields in the 19th century. Daily case numbers remain at tens of thousands in NSW and Victoria. I know that I was safer.. Is another lockdown coming to Victoria? - XYZ All of which makes me wonder if we are heading towards a summer lockdown. Timelines of Melbourne's lockdown - Since the pandemic began The first person in Australia to die of Covid-19 dies in a Western Australia hospital. Premier Daniel Andrews on Thursday defended the restrictions and current isolation rules, saying it was saving many thousands of people from ending up in hospital. Mr Weimar revealed on Wednesday that the removalists were in Melbourne on a workers' permit but that they did not wear masks inside the apartment building. To be able to work out your working from home tax deduction you will need to keep a record of the days from which you work from home. Life is about to get very difficult for the unvaccinated, Active Cases: serious or critical: 269 (0.1%). AUSTRALIA LOCKDOWN - The Economic Times "And that trend is something that we're seeing all across the city.". Victoria enters its fifth lockdown . His wife was the second. On Thursday the NSW premier will announce the policy reversal following Covid crisis talks with fellow state leaders and Prime Minister Scott Morrison. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/covid-restrictions-tighten-in-victoria-to-slow-spread-of-omicron/100741342. Four of the new cases were recorded on level three of Ariele apartments in Maribyrnong where the removalists stopped. Despite the efforts of the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre, a new unit specifically formed to bring these outbreaks under control, hundreds of elderly people died unnecessarily. Pictured: Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton. The fact this didnt happen should make Victorians extremely proud. As the Covid years continue we are losing our magical thinking it will go away and not be a changing burden to our life, she says. Today the state reported nearly 22,000 new infections, but the true number is likely much higher. Melbourne has endured the world's longest cumulative time in lockdown, . Check your spam folder for our confirmation email! There were three initial cases earlier this week, that leaked in from NSW. "That is the number, the 24 number is what we need to get down to is close to zero as possible," she said. A scuffed copy of the Koran. All times AEDT (GMT +11). But most importantly it kept the community focused on what was needed to bring the virus under control. COVID 19 11:26am Jun 4, 2022 Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has issued an ominous warning as the southern state prepares to come out of lockdown. Lydia Napoli also works in hospitality in NSW. "It is important for us to assess all the advice we have which will be based on data and that will take us the next two weeks to make that assessment," she said. The Premier also hinted that parts of Regional Victoria may be able to exit lockdown "before next Tuesday if it is safe to do so." This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. The deputy premier said the changes were 'modest measures' that would protect the state's health system from the recent surge in infections. Victoria asks (but does not mandate) people to wear masks in public for the first time. . ABC host Patricia Karvelas said Melbourne residents were "on high alert again". Two years of having get a test drummed into you and then suddenly people are told not to get a test unless they fit certain criteria I found that really hard, he says. There are more women with the virus who are having babies, but unlike 2021 they are not gasping for breath, she says. The Herald Sun reports the state government is holding high-level meetings this afternoon to weigh up whether to reimpose restrictions across Melbourne, with an announcement expected as early as Thursday. There are growing calls for Greater Sydney to be placed into a hard lockdown similar to the one imposed in Melbourne last year, but chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant insists NSW is already under "hard" restrictions. It's hard to believe that while Australia was so focused on the bushfires that raged in the early part of 2020, another threat was already on our shores one that would change the way we live and work for years. Premier Dominic Perrottet had last week scrapped the QR check-ins for 'low risk' venues such as retail and kept them in place for 'high risk' settings like gyms and pubs. 'Wear a mask in an indoor setting. Two years [living in a pandemic] is very different to five years when you only get three good months every year.. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! "Interaction in those environments is close, it's crowded, it's active and it's mobile. "We will know at the end of two weeks to what extent we need to extend the lockdown, whether there is any chance of face-to-face schooling. 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Victoria recorded eight new cases on Wednesday, seven of them linked to a returned family and a crew of removalists, who both came into the state from NSW. What have we learnt since then? The strengthened settings will see a curfew imposed from 9pm to 5am every night. "Please note that we have always taken the position in New South Wales they will keep the community safe but also make sure that we keep livelihoods going.". COVID-19 Victoria 2022: The mood in Melbourne in another - The Age His mother's pitiful public apology. PETER HITCHENS: Now we know for sure that our leaders lost their heads over Covid. That would be very challenging not just for Covid patients but for everybody else who needs a hospital bed.. He added that the government was encouraging dance floors to be closed. Australia has been the most locked-down country since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, but residents are growing frustrated with cases still rising. Inside Prince Harry's finances from when he met Meghan Markle to landing 100M with Netflix and book Spare Do not sell or share my personal information. The government and health authorities failed to control infections among returned travellers spreading to hotel quarantine workers and beyond. . Mr Merlino's NSW counterpartDominic Perrottet has refused to bring back a sweeping indoor mask mandate - despite many health experts recommending residents continue wearing the face coverings indoors. The bigger question of course will be whether we ever need to rely on hotel quarantine again or whether we have learned the more important lesson about how unsuitable hotels are for containing infectious diseases. More than two years old, we've passed another grim milestone: 10,000 people have now died of Covid-19 in Australia. Housing policies favour the rich and leave first home buyers high and dry.