![]() ![]() The state brought back sweeping social distancing restrictions and mandatory mask-wearing yesterday. "We currently have eight active cases in our state and that means whilst we are in a good situation in South Australia, there's always the risk of a transmission event in a hotel." "They are not community cases, they are in our medi-hotel system, so we are still very fortunate we do not have any cases imported from New South Wales or any of the other states," Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said. ![]() South Australia has recorded two new cases but both were in hotel quarantine and acquired the illness overseas. "What does the impact of the vaccine rollout mean? What does the impact of restrictions mean? And also what other states do impact us as well? We don’t want to see unnecessary job losses and people stressed in 2021.Read more South Australia is free of local transmission - but they're still on alert “So from a decision-making perspective, we have to have our wits about us as to how we move forward and they’re the considerations we’re looking at the moment," she said. He compared that to the more than 1000 daily deaths in the UK and more than 4000 daily deaths in the US.įrom a decision-making perspective, we have to have our wits about us as to how we move forward.Īt the same time, Ms Berejiklian noted leaders were in for a "tricky" period managing outbreaks, amid uncertainties about how effectively the vaccine protected from further transmission. He said there had not been a COVID-19 death in Australia since October. He said the take-up rate of the vaccine would influence when and how quickly health restrictions, including for mass events, could be eased in the second half of this year. He said if lockdowns are imposed too fast it makes it difficult for people but if they are too slow they fail to have the full effect of stopping the spread of the virus. Professor Kelly said governments would learn from Brisbane's snap lockdown. “We are looking for a clearer, simpler system to give people as much information as possible and as much clarity as possible about how to manage, you know travel over the coming months, while we still have active COVID cases popping up at around the country,” Victorian testing and outbreak commander Jeroen Weimar said "I just ask other state leaders to, please, talk to us before they close their border to NSW and give us a chance to demonstrate our capacity to get on top of the virus without adversely impacting our citizens."Īustralia recorded just three new community cases of COVID-19, all in NSW, on Sunday.Īn additional 10 cases were identified in returned travellers from overseas in hotel quarantine – six in Victoria, three in NSW and one in the Northern Territory.Īmid the weekend confusion at Melbourne Airport, Victoria called for a better system to stop airlines letting people board from hotspots, after dozens of planes arrived over the weekend from Brisbane. "The issue that causes all of these massive setbacks which are extremely frustrating for passengers but also extremely costly across the whole system is the lack of predictability of response," said Alison Roberts, chief executive of the peak industry body Airlines for Australia and New Zealand. Brook MitchellĪirlines, crews and passengers were thrown into confusion after the states and territories applied different travel restrictions, with 96 passengers from greater Brisbane arriving at Melbourne airport at the weekend in an apparent breach of the state ban on all people from that region. Northern beaches residents enjoy the Mona Vale markets in Sydney's northern beaches on Sunday after the lockdown was lifted. The lockdown was caused after a cleaner at a quarantine hotel was infected with the highly contagious B117 virus mutation, which is causing havoc in Britain. ![]() ![]() Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is under pressure to swiftly end Brisbane's lockdown, as states bickered over border closures and business argued there needs to be a better approach than "stop-start" lockdowns and hotspot declarations.īrisbane's snap three-day lockdown is due to expire at 6pm on Monday, after Queensland recorded no new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row. ![]()
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