![]() ![]() ![]() And finally Australia’s chief medical officer Prof Paul Kelly said he d oesn’t think it is possible to completely eliminate Covid-19 from Australia, suggesting that WA Premier Mark McGowan’s assertion that WA has eliminated Covid-19 is unsustainable.Across the Tasman New Zealand recorded 21 new Covid-19 cases for the second day in a row, with a potential super-spreading event stemming from a Samoan Assembly of God church service.Hundreds of people are gathered in an anti-lockdown protest on the Queensland-New South Wales border, including a man riding around on a white horse, encouraging the crowd to cross over the border.This brings the total cluster in the territory up to 121. The ACT also recorded 19, six of whom were infectious in the community.Victoria recorded 65 new cases, the regional cluster in Shepparton growing and a new outbreak at the Royal Melbourne hotel causing concern.New South Wales recorded 830 cases today, the highest ever daily total, with Brad Hazzard reassuring the public that the state’s health system was up to the task.Mr Marshall wants the state to reach 80 per cent double vaccination status before opening domestic borders, a target it is on track to hit in December.Ī similar function allowing people to check-in and confirm vaccination status was added to the Service NSW app on Friday.Okay! So that’s been the day in Australian Covid-19 news. South Australian Premier Steven Marshall said the pilot test “will ensure that the process is secure and convenient and that we are ready when the time comes to reopen our state in the safest way possible”. South Australians will soon have an easier way to show their vaccination status ahead of the state hitting its target to open its domestic borders.Īs of Sunday, more than 58 per cent of South Australians over the age of 16 have been fully vaccinated, and more than 75 per cent have received their first dose.įifty people are now taking part in a three-week pilot test of VaxCheck, a function inside the mySA Gov app that should eventually allow people to show their vaccination status and check-in to a venue through the same app.Ĭurrently, digital vaccination certificates are available through myGov and the Express Plus Medicare app, which generate certificates that can be saved to a smartphone wallet. This all seems a little quaint: 50 people in South Australia are undertaking a pilot of an app that will allow them to show their vaccination status and check in to businesses. The Australian Border Force has been contacted for comment. He said he had been tested three or four times in the two weeks after he was moved to the hotel from Sydney’s Villawood detention centre, but that testing was not being carried out regularly. Salah said that he and many other detainees were yet to be vaccinated. She said crowded conditions, hygiene issues, a lack of information, guards working multiple sites and low vaccination numbers were all factors driving the ASRC’s “deep concerns there could be an outbreak in a detention facility”. “They’re scared and they’ve been scared for 18 months,” Favero said. ![]() The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre director of advocacy and campaigns, Jana Favero, told national newswire AAP it was a situation the centre had feared, and despite attempts by detainees to socially distance and remain safe “it’s impossible in the conditions they’re in”. we sit together, eat together, we really don’t know what to do.” He’s currently in the Park hotel in Melbourne where he says detainees found out today that three people had tested positive and others were also showing symptoms. Mustafa Salah, 23, has spent the better part of eight years inside Australian detention facilities offshore and within its borders. Here is more from AAP on the news we mentioned earlier about Medevac detainees in Melbourne contracting Covid:Īn asylum seeker inside a Melbourne hotel being used as an “alternative place of detention” by Australian Border Force says detainees are frustrated and scared after three of them tested positive for Covid.
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