Australia Covid updates live: Victoria records 779 new cases and two deaths as regions await lockdown fate

Australia Covid updates live: Victoria records 779 new cases and two deaths as regions await lockdown fate

Victorian regions plunged into a seven-day lockdown will find out today if restrictions will lift amid concerns over case numbers in Geelong and Mitchell Shire. Follow the latest updates live NSW frontline medical staff gagged as health system braces for Covid peak NSW and Vic restrictions; Vic hotspots Vaccine rollout and rates tracker; Cases and … Read more

Covid Australia live update: Victoria records three new cases as Melbourne apartment block in lockdown; financial support for Sydney

Covid Australia live update: Victoria records three new cases as Melbourne apartment block in lockdown; financial support for Sydney

12.31am BST00:31 Graham Readfearn Members of the world heritage committee – that’s 21 countries including Australia – are being heavily lobbied over the Great Barrier Reef by the Morrison government, environment groups and scientists. All the main environment groups sent a letter to the committee saying it should follow the recommendation from Unesco and put … Read more

Australia Covid live update: we are ‘back of the queue’ for Pfizer Covid vaccines, finance minister admits

Australia Covid live update: we are ‘back of the queue’ for Pfizer Covid vaccines, finance minister admits

Atagi’s view is they should have Pfizer rather than AstraZeneca. The question is do we have sufficient Pfizer to protect people in time so that they don’t get Covid which would be far worse than having an AstraZeneca vaccine. It is not a question of should it be AstraZeneca or Pfizer. We don’t have sufficient … Read more