Gladys Berejiklian says some of the new instances were active in the network while they were infectious; Simon Birmingham admits Australia is “behind the tail” of Pfizer vaccines; The Co-Chair of Atagi stated that AstraZeneca will only be used through those under the age of 40 in “urgent” circumstances; Follow the latest updates
Hi all, come and give you some news from Barnaby Joyce.
After a member of the public called police opposing the deputy prime minister for not wearing a mask while refueling in his car in Armidale on Monday (Joyce fined $200 for the crime), someone tried to stick to the lawsuit after seeing a photo of a maskless Joyce in a Walcha pub.
Joyce did much of her press convention at the Walcha pub on Sunday, as there was a larger reception. He photographed the state at the bar holding a beer, while the innkeepers stood in the background.
NSW police were asked through a member of the public to investigate that Joyce had breached social distancing rules.
A police spokesman said he had been investigated, but this time Joyce clarified:
Oxley Police District officers were alerted after a photo posted on social media of a boy drinking in a Walcha Road pub on Sunday (June 27, 2021).
Investigations established that the 54-year-old man who was sitting at the bar had still gotten up from the stool to pose for the photo before sitting down.
At the time, the boy and his family, as well as the cabaretiers, who also live on the premises, were the only other people inside the premises.
No action will be taken.
Good from South Australia.
ABC Adelaide reports that the state premier has shown that no new instances of Covid-19 were recorded overnight.
This comes after he discovered that a miner inflamed with the Delta variant of Covid-19 had returned from nt to Adjalde and inflamed 4 of his five members of the circle of relatives.
The state was not arrested yesterday, as the Prime Minister said that the circle of relatives had moved away and that there were very few incidents of prospective exposure.
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner says he’s incredibly involved with low vaccination rates in remote communities and across the territory as Alice Springs enters her first full day of lockdown:
The vulnerable population here terrifies me. The [vaccination rates are] 29% in the first dose, 15% in two doses in the country.
We stick well to the two-dose rate, but miles from where we want to be. The national average is around 5%. We are making every effort to vaccinate the local population as temporarily as possible, we are not close to where we want to be.
I am very involved with the vulnerability of our population.
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner now speaks to ABC about the Alice Springs and Darwin blockades:
We are on the fourth day of a five-day lockdown in Darwin. We are cautiously positive in the Top End. There were two important exhibition venues that involved us, the Buff Club and the Zumba course. Everyone in those two places has been remote and tested. We are sorry to have the virus contained there. We are still waiting for the effects of the tests.
At Alice Springs, there’s a seven-hour exhibition window that worries those of us who have been to South Australia and have tested positive and appear to be very contagious.
We reviewed CCTV footage of the airport in this seven-hour era and met another 80 people who are informal or close contacts and isolated and verified them. It is too early to say how we are following each other at this stage. his three-day confinement.
I won the comments finally from THE WA Director of Health, Dr. Andrew Robertson, who said:
WA will continue to adhere to ATAGI’s guidance, which states that the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is not for others under the age of 60 WA Health will not provide an AstraZeneca vaccine through its vaccination clinics to others under the age of 60 in If other people under the age of 40 are contemplating getting vaccinated , they are encouraged to discuss their characteristics with their own gp. Vaccination is the most productive way to protect our network from Covid-19.
If the whole AstraZeneca circular this week has left you perplexed, I’ve talked to the experts and accumulated this explanation here:
Federal Finance Minister Simon Birmingham was questioned on Monday whether the prime minister was speaking “too soon”, pronouncing the opening of eligibility for AstraZeneca, allegedly did not fully express his intentions to heads of state.
Birmingham retaliated and called Annastacia Palaszczuk’s comments a “desperate” attempt to politicise the Covid-19 crisis:
Well, the Prime Minister is pronouncing the fact that the general practitioners’ allowance is being put into position when it comes to the handling of vaccines, and this is one of the supports so that general practitioners can have all the mandatory conversations with Australians of all ages to communicate. for them through the implications of having a vaccine matrix. .
I know that some of the Labour leaders in the state, namely the Prime Minister of Queensland, have desperately sought to politicise this and, frankly, it is shameful. The recommendation to the Australians has not replaced. The only thing it has replaced has been the preparation for GP to do their homework as a component of the national deployment.
Following Atagi’s reaffirmation of the medical guideline that AstraZeneca vaccines deserve to be administered only to others under the age of 40 in specific and narrow circumstances, the federal government had to do some damage this morning.
Finance Minister Simon Birmingham has just asked about this in ABC News Breakfast:
The Australians are adopting and executing the deployment. Atagi’s recommendation has not changed, this recommendation is that you prefer those under 60 to Pfizer.
This is a recommendation that has been replaced several times before. It had from the beginning all the vaccines suitable for everyone, first for those under 50 and then for those under 60.
It has been said that councils have also indicated that Australians under this age deserve to be able to communicate with their GP on their own stage and all the government has done is to provide more help to GP so that they can have those conversations with Australians.
Speaking of Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk doubled down on her complaint about the federal government’s quarantine control and vaccine launch in an interview with ABC at 7:30 a. m. on Wednesday night.
Had. . . a magical moment in time when we would never go back, where we may have simply vaccinated the entire population before the virus arrived this way.
At a heated press convention prior to Wednesday, Queensland Prime Minister and MP Steven Miles called for drastic relief in the number of arrivals, reports AAP.
The couple say they are frustrated to learn that the outbreak, which has led to the lockdown of millions of Queenslanders, was triggered by an un vaccinated traveller who had made repeated journeys between Australia and Indonesia.
The guy inflamed a receptionist at Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane.
Palaszczuk echoed those demands Wednesday night:
I would like to see a big reduction. We have to do it now because we have to involve this Delta strain. . . 50%, 75%, let’s do it right away.
He also criticised the Prime Minister, saying that the national cupboard had not discussed whether to offer the AstraZeneca vaccine to other people under the age of 40, if they accepted the threat of blood clots:
It was normal to hear the Prime Minister say [that]. Such a resolution was not taken in the national cabinet.
But federal Home Secretary Karen Andrews retaliated on Wednesday, accusing the Queensland government of distorting the Australian bureau of arrival statistics’ knowledge:
“What Prime Minister Palaszczuk and his deputy Steven Miles are doing is creating a distraction from their own quarantine failures.
The state government is facing a complaint after it emerged that the receptionist in the middle of the group was not vaccinated, she was near a Covid service.
She was active in the network for 10 days while she was infected, and the state says it will investigate why she wasn’t vacunized.
I commented that there is a kind of real war between the federal government and some heads of state.
Well, it was seriously at the Queensland press convention yesterday, where the state’s fitness director told those under the age of 40 not to get the AstraZeneca vaccine and the leaders questioned the federal government’s motivation to open AZ eligibility, despite the potentially contrary to the Council laws ruling.
If you sit back a bit and need a quick review to catch up, can I give you the (somewhat biased) advice to watch this Guardian Australia Tiktok below?
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Hello, Matilda Boseley to present all the news of Thursday, and then that week has already been.
We are now waking up in a country with almost a part of the population locked up.
That includes the red town in downtown Alice Springs, which plunged into an instant lockdown at 1 p. m. after a potentially infectious employee at the Newmont granite mine spent seven hours at Alice Springs Airport on Friday before flying to South Australia.
While he first tested negative in Adelaide, he then inflamed 4 out of five members of his circle of family members and has since been shown to have the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19.
The challenge is that we don’t know if this first control was negative because it was so early in infection that it may not be detected, and it was unlikely to be infectious in Alice Spring, or if it was just a false negative. so there is a threat that Covid-19 has simply been sown in the remote city.
The fitness directive applies to everyone within the barriers of Alice Springs City Council, adding many Indigenous Australians living in camps. that other people stay and confirm that they will be provided with food, mask and blankets:
We work a lot with the [Central Australian Aboriginal Congress] and the board to make you safe.
Now let’s move on to the vaccine launch, where a schism has emerged between some state governments and the Commonwealth over whether other people under the age of 40 should be encouraged to get the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The co-chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization, Professor Assoc Christopher Blyth, told ABC Radio this morning that this should only be considered in “urgent” circumstances:
There are conditions under which this would be justified, but they are small . . .
Atago is that Pfizer is our preference for those under 60.
We’ll dive deeper into the AstraZeneca quagmire this morning, but for now, if there’s something you think I missed or am not yet on the blog, send me a message on Twitter @MatildaBoseley or email me matilda. boseley@theguardian . com.
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