More exposure sites have been added in Victoria this evening, but they’re all related to a Hawthorn apartment complex that was already on the list. There are now just over 100 exposure sites, sharply down from the over 400 that were listed last weekend.
An anti-lockdown protester will face court tonight after he allegedly assaulted a mounted branch police officer at the anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne’s CBD last Saturday.
That part of the complex is listed as a tier-2 location, but some individual residents received a letter on Tuesday telling them to go into quarantine until August 6.The Department of Health confirmed on Thursday that a high-risk part of the Balmoral Apartment Complex has been designated a tier-1 site and residents who were in those areas needed to quarantine for 14 days.
Premier Mark McGowan announced a swag of new rules on Friday afternoon for ships coming from designated high-risk countries as the state continues to deal with two ships docked in Fremantle riddled with the virus. “If particular shipping companies are not meeting the required standards, they could also be banned from granting permission to berth at a WA port.”
“Under the 70 per cent rule lockdowns will be still possible and we have the ability for that to still take place and we all agree on that, as we all know lockdowns are really until we’re all vaccinated the only thing that still works,” he said. “They need to have mask wearing outside, in public places all over Sydney, not just in some local government areas. People move out of the local government areas, local government areas are artificial.
The Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease than all other known versions of the virus, according to an internal presentation circulated within the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Accelerate vaccination rates, close international borders to keep COVID-19 out, early, stringent and short lockdowns if outbreaks occur;
Lockdowns less likely but possible; international border caps and low-level international arrivals, with safe and proportionate quarantine to minimisethe risk of COVID entering; ease restrictions on vaccinated residents. “That’s why that phase is referred to as [lockdowns being] less likely, but possible, as opposed to in the first phase we’re in now, where you’ve got to go there and you’ve got to go straightaway because otherwise the cost will end up being greater.”Angus Thompson
Mr Morrison says use of the quarantine facility is based on how many facilitated flights are brought in.
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