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

Australia coronavirus live update: four new Covid cases in Victoria and one in Queensland; wild weather hits eastern states

Australia coronavirus live update: four new Covid cases in Victoria and one in Queensland; wild weather hits eastern states

Because I believe this risk is actually a little bit lower, I haven’t asked all of our vulnerable facilities to go into lockdown at this stage. So, you would know and be aware that usually when we have an outbreak I require hospital, aged care facilities, disability care accommodation facilities, and prisons, if there are … Read more

Coronavirus Australia live updates: Victoria braces for potential lockdown to contain Melbourne Covid cases

Coronavirus Australia live updates: Victoria braces for potential lockdown to contain Melbourne Covid cases

10.31pm BST22:31 While you were sleeping, US president Joe Biden ordered an intelligence investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. National Security Council (@WHNSC) Read the full statement by President Joe Biden on the investigation into the origins of COVID-19: pic.twitter.com/Lo4Y2g0IKQ May 26, 2021 You can read the Guardian’s full story here: Updated at 10.36pm … Read more

Australia news live: NSW contact tracers scramble to contain spread following local Covid case in Sydney’s east

Australia news live: NSW contact tracers scramble to contain spread following local Covid case in Sydney’s east

A very good morning to you all on this dreary autumn’s Thursday (well, at least it’s dreary where I am, so I demand everyone suffer because of that). Sydney is dealing with a worrying case of mystery Covid community transmission. The NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian says it’s likely there will be more community cases to … Read more