Prime Minister Scott Morrison has spoken to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to discuss necessary support during the state’s second wave of COVID-19.
Scott Morrison says the response to the second wave of Covid-19 infections cannot be shutting the country down to try to eliminate the virus, and he’s moved to reassure people his government will not be withdrawing income support “for those in need”.
Victoria reported five deaths from the coronavirus cases and logged the third-highest daily rise in coronavirus cases.
Victoria recorded 403 new cases overnight, Premier Daniel Andrews told a media briefing in Melbourne, a day after posting its biggest one-day spike of 484 cases.
Australian states on Tuesday tightened restrictions on movement as authorities struggle to contain a fresh outbreak of Coronavirus in the country’s southeast that is starting to spill into other areas.
With growing fears of a second coronavirus wave nationally, two states extended border restrictions and Australia’s most populous state imposed limits on the number of people allowed in large pubs.
Scott Morrison has announced that Australia will reduce the rate of international arrivals by more than half – with at least 4,000 fewer Australians returning home each week – and states will charge people for compulsory two-week hotel quarantine.
The national cabinet met to consider the worsening second-wave outbreak, which has seen the reimposition of stage-three lockdowns in Melbourne and isolated Victoria with border bans imposed by every state and territory.
Despite Victoria’s alarming COVID-19 spike, the 2021 Australian Open will proceed in Melbourne and Melbourne only.
According to tournament boss Craig Tiley, Nothing has changed for us in terms of our planning,” Tiley told AAP.
“So I’m confident we will run the Australian Open in Melbourne and other events around Australia in January.
According to the health ministry, Mexico posted a record daily tally of coronavirus infections as 6,741 cases carried the overall figure to 238,511 on Thursday.
Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said authorities had begun examining records for causes of death linked to COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus.
The health authority of China confirmed three new coronavirus cases in the mainland for July 1st became a total of 83,537 confirmed coronavirus cases.
There were no new deaths. The death toll from the coronavirus remained at 4,634 in China.
The first human trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine developed in Australia are about to begin in Adelaide.
Vaccine research director Professor Nikolai Petrovsky said the human trials beginning in Adelaide today were the first for a vaccine developed in the southern hemisphere.
He said “I am very confident there will be successful vaccines against COVID-19.”
NSW Government Closed Victoria Borde for people living in Melbourne’s coronavirus hotspots from entering the state.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard revealed anyone from an affected Victorian postcode found in NSW could be jailed for six months or fined $11,000.
“So take it seriously, take it very, very seriously.”
The National Health Commission said in a statement, China on Tuesday reported 19 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for June 29, including 7 in Beijing. There were no new deaths.
Beijing has been carrying out mass testing for the coronavirus since the city reported its first case in the latest outbreak on June 11.
