Showing posts with label Coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coronavirus. Show all posts
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Cap on international arrivals to Australia has been slashed. So what does it mean for those still overseas?
Under recent changes to the rules around international arrivals, the number of flights returning to Australia has been reduced.
Until next month, the number of international arrivals into New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia will be halved
Coronavirus Updates
Australia news live: NSW reports four new local Covid cases, as south-east Qld lockdown to end today
A specialised Victorian police unit has been established to investigate the manufacture and trafficking of illicit firearms, reports AAP.
Police minister Lisa Neville says there were nine fatal and 41 non-fatal shootings in the state last year. Authorities also seized more than 770 firearms.
Read Moré
Breaking news and live updates: Pelosi declares House 'will proceed' to impeachment of Trump; Brisbane lockdown to end after no new virus cases; Three new NSW cases
Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Monday, January 11, 2021. Brisbane's three day lockdown will end with no new virus cases recorded despite almost 70,000 tests in total. Meanwhile, NSW has confirmed three new cases in NSW, all linked to the cluster in Western Sydney. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the House 'will proceed' with the impeachment of Trump in 24 hours, if Vice President Pence doesn't step in. And the black box of the missing Indonesian flight has been found in the Java Sea as identities of those on board emerged.
Coronavirus UpdatesCoronavirus live news: Brisbane lockdown to end after third day of zero new cases, masks required indoors until January 22
Greater Brisbane's three-day snap lockdown to stop the spread of the UK COVID-19 variant will be lifted at 6:00pm, with some restrictions to stay in place until mid-January.
Coronavirus UpdatesCovid-19: NSW only Australian state to record new cases
Australia's Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly says "there will be a time sometime this year" when levels of vaccination in the community are high enough for social distancing restrictions to be eased, but it will take time.
Coronavirus UpdatesUK reports 54,940 new Covid-19 cases, 563 deaths – latest updates
Sunday, January 10, 2021:
Britain sees 54,940 new cases, 563 deaths
Britain has reported 54,940 new cases of Covid-19, a slight drop from the number on Saturday, and 563 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test, government data has shown.
Mutant COVID strain sparks testing frenzy in Queensland
The mutant UK COVID-19 strain has come to a small Sunshine Coast town, sending it into testing turmoil.
Maleny has a population of fewer than 3500, and residents are lining up to get checked after the discovery.
Raft of new rules for domestic and international travel in response to UK strain of coronavirus
Anyone coming into Australia must first return a negative coronavirus test before departure, and masks will be mandatory on all flights going forward.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced these measures, along with the intent to reduce
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip vaccinated against COVID-19
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Her Majesty, 94, and Duke of Edinburgh, 99, are the first members of the British Royal Family to received the jab, which a royal source confirms was administered by a Household Doctor at Windsor Castle on Saturday.
Long delays at Adelaide testing clinics as locals rush home from Brisbane
Coronavirus testing clinics across South Australia have been inundated as those who have visited Brisbane in the past week rush to get swabbed.
Wait times at the Victoria Park testing clinic maxed out four hours, with lines stretching out to Wakefield Road.
Victorians confused and frustrated about last minute Brisbane border closure
Confused and frustrated Victorians have vented their anger over the government's eleventh hour decision to close the border to Greater Brisbane.
Details were published on Twitter 15 minutes before the closure came into force at midnight.
Nationwide hotel quarantine overhaul begins
A nationwide hotel quarantine overhaul has begun, in response to the new variants of COVID-19 hitching a ride into the country with international arrivals.
Of the 4812 people in NSW who have been detected with the virus, 55 per cent of those cases brought it here by plane.
More infectious UK strain of COVID-19 detected in Northern Territory
The UK variant of the COVID-19 virus has been confirmed in an overseas traveller who returned to the Northern Territory.
The 26-year-old woman arrived on a repatriation flight from London on December 30 and her positive test record was announced on January 2.
Case of UK strain flew into Queensland from Melbourne as no new cases recorded
There have been zero new cases of coronavirus in Queensland overnight but another case of the UK strain has flown from Victoria into the state.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed there had been no local transmission this morning,
Four new local cases of coronavirus in NSW, people coming from Brisbane must self-isolate
An array of stores at Burwood, in Sydney's inner-west, have been added to an ever-growing list of locations visited by confirmed coronavirus cases as authorities continue to track down people potentially infected.
Confirmed cases of COVID-19
Health Minister defends release of coronavirus-infected woman from hotel quarantine
Victoria's Health Minister has defended the release of a woman from hotel quarantine after 10 days when she had tested positive to the very contagious new strain of coronavirus.
It's been confirmed today a UK arrival travelled from Melbourne to Brisbane
Saturday, January 9, 2021
US Registering Highest Deaths Yet From the Coronavirus
The U.S. registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before — nearly 3,900 — on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic.
Friday, January 8, 2021
Western Australia reinstates hard border with Queensland
Western Australia reinstated its hard border controls with Queensland at 12.01am (2am AEST) today.
Queensland is now categorised as a medium-risk state, after the recent case of the mutant COVID-19 strain found in
Brisbane's lost weekend: Snap lockdown turns city into a ghost town
Brisbane is a ghost town with the city already in the first day of a three-day lockdown.
The roads are empty across much of Brisbane with people directed to stay home to prevent the spread of coronavirus
Three new cases recorded in SA as new restrictions come into force
Three new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in South Australia however all are in hotel quarantine.
The new cases come as the state locks its borders to travellers from Greater Brisbane due to concerns over the
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