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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1943907, member: 81934"] 5 AUGUST VIC Man in his 30s among 15 new coronavirus deaths in Victoria [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/man-in-his-30s-among-15-new-coronavirus-deaths-in-victoria/ar-BB17zxbJ?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/man-in-his-30s-among-15-new-coronavirus-deaths-in-victoria/ar-BB17zxbJ?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] As Melbourne moves to stage 4, how do its coronavirus restrictions compare to the world's toughest lockdowns? [url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-05/melbourne-stage-4-coronavirus-restrictions-vs-world/12518376]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-05/melbourne-stage-4-coronavirus-restrictions-vs-world/12518376[/url] Vic curfew breakers face $5000 fine, while repeat offenders face $20,000 fine [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/vic-curfew-breakers-face-5000-fine-while-repeat-offenders-face-20-000-fine/ar-BB17z5oJ?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/vic-curfew-breakers-face-5000-fine-while-repeat-offenders-face-20-000-fine/ar-BB17z5oJ?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] 'It has to work': the reins are tightening on a Covid-stricken Victoria, but how did we get here? [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/it-has-to-work-the-reins-are-tightening-on-a-covid-stricken-victoria-but-how-did-we-get-here/ar-BB17yRIY?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/it-has-to-work-the-reins-are-tightening-on-a-covid-stricken-victoria-but-how-did-we-get-here/ar-BB17yRIY?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] Victoria coronavirus cases reach single-day record as Melbourne businesses prepare to close [url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-05/victoria-coronavirus-cases-rise-ahead-melbourne-business-closing/12525790]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-05/victoria-coronavirus-cases-rise-ahead-melbourne-business-closing/12525790[/url] Victoria's hospitals will hit capacity within weeks if coronavirus numbers don't ease, emergency doctor warns [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/victoria-s-hospitals-will-hit-capacity-within-weeks-if-coronavirus-numbers-don-t-ease-emergency-doctor-warns/ar-BB17AGqa?ocid=msedgntp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/victoria-s-hospitals-will-hit-capacity-within-weeks-if-coronavirus-numbers-don-t-ease-emergency-doctor-warns/ar-BB17AGqa?ocid=msedgntp[/url] Elective surgery in regional Victoria suspended as state frees up health system [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/elective-surgery-in-regional-victoria-suspended-as-state-frees-up-health-system/ar-BB17zxty?ocid=msedgntp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/elective-surgery-in-regional-victoria-suspended-as-state-frees-up-health-system/ar-BB17zxty?ocid=msedgntp[/url] BIG CHANGES Melbourne Covid work permit form: who is eligible and how do I apply? [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/melbourne-covid-work-permit-form-who-is-eligible-and-how-do-i-apply/ar-BB17zCEH?ocid=msedgdhp#image=1]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/melbourne-covid-work-permit-form-who-is-eligible-and-how-do-i-apply/ar-BB17zCEH?ocid=msedgdhp#image=1[/url] What will still be open under Stage 4 ? [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/800-residents-flout-self-isolation-directives-in-melbourne/ar-BB17yXtk?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/800-residents-flout-self-isolation-directives-in-melbourne/ar-BB17yXtk?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] What is within 5km of your Melbourne home? Find out where you can go under stage 4 coronavirus restrictions with our interactive map [url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-04/how-to-measure-whats-within-5km-radius-of-your-home-coronavirus/12517868]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-04/how-to-measure-whats-within-5km-radius-of-your-home-coronavirus/12517868[/url] Victoria's rules around intimate partner visits clarified [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/victoria-s-rules-around-intimate-partner-visits-clarified/ar-BB17zF04?ocid=msedgntp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/victoria-s-rules-around-intimate-partner-visits-clarified/ar-BB17zF04?ocid=msedgntp[/url] All residents returning to NSW from Victoria must go into hotel quarantine [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/all-residents-returning-to-nsw-from-victoria-must-go-into-hotel-quarantine/ar-BB17zkoa?ocid=msedgntp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/all-residents-returning-to-nsw-from-victoria-must-go-into-hotel-quarantine/ar-BB17zkoa?ocid=msedgntp[/url] IMPACTS & REGIONAL Coronavirus contact tracing begins in Bendigo region as health officials plead for honesty {QUOTE] Bendigo Health has deployed its regional public health team to conduct local contact tracing. Health Minister Jenny Mikakos last month announced six dedicated regional public health teams would be established in addition to teams working in Melbourne. Bendigo Health chief executive officer Peter Faulkner said people had no reason to worry about privacy when speaking to its regional public health team. "We are only using that data for health purposes," he said. "It is not used for any other reason, so no-one should have any concern about being very open and honest with us about their activities, who they've been in touch with, and so on." The new regional public health team in Bendigo will handle all contact tracing for the Loddon-Mallee region from now on, taking over from a Melbourne-led Department of Health and Human Services team. The Loddon-Mallee covers the area from Gisborne and Riddells Creek, on Melbourne's outskirts, to Mildura — 500 kilometres away in the state's north-west, bordering New South Wales. Contact tracing helps the Department of Health and Human Services track down where the virus might have spread to. Their first official case was the worker at Hazeldene's Chicken Farm processing plant in Lockwood, who tested positive on Monday. Mr Faulkner said the team hoped to contain further community transmission. Two-fold approach Bendigo Health's chief medical officer Diana Badcock said there was a contact tracing arm to the unit and an ongoing monitoring arm to the public health unit. "At that point we will need some basic information about where they've been, what they've been doing, whether they've been doing things over a certain period of time, and who they've been doing it with," she said. "It's so we can risk assess the people, the place in time, and any other places they have been visiting. "That then gets handed to the contact tracers who will then have a more investigative-type, detailed discussion with the COVID positive patients so that we completely know what they've been doing when they became symptomatic and the two days before the onset of symptoms." Containing the spread Thousands of people have been tested over the past two weeks since the first case at Don KR Smallgoods in Castlemaine led to massive queues at Bendigo's drive-through clinic. Mr Faulkner said new pop-up clinics had been set up in Castlemaine and Maryborough to manage demand for the second-round test Don KR Smallgoods workers were required to get. "We're also putting extra resources on in Bendigo to deal with that increase," he said."We test one person approximately every 40 seconds." Play by the rules The Rural Doctors Association said an increase of COVID-19 cases in regional Victoria would put already stretched local hospitals under too much pressure. There are 728 cases of coronavirus across regional Victoria, but some areas like Gannawarra Shire have no active cases and they want to keep it that way. The association's Victorian president and Cohuna GP, Megan Belot, said it was vital people were honest with authorities about where they had been if they tested positive to coronavirus. "You're really just cheating yourself and cheating the community [if you don't tell the truth]," Dr Belot said. "We really have to do everything we possibly can to protect our rural community. "We don't want people in hospital. We don't want the extra burden on our already strained rural health service." [/QUOTE] [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/coronavirus-contact-tracing-begins-in-bendigo-region-as-health-officials-plead-for-honesty/ar-BB17zG0Z?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/coronavirus-contact-tracing-begins-in-bendigo-region-as-health-officials-plead-for-honesty/ar-BB17zG0Z?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] Calls for new funding model, improved infrastructure for Gippsland Neighbourhood House 'super centre' [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/calls-for-new-funding-model-improved-infrastructure-for-gippsland-neighbourhood-house-super-centre/ar-BB17zcic?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/calls-for-new-funding-model-improved-infrastructure-for-gippsland-neighbourhood-house-super-centre/ar-BB17zcic?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] Pig and chicken cull possible as Victoria coronavirus lockdown hits abattoirs [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/pig-and-chicken-cull-possible-as-victoria-coronavirus-lockdown-hits-abattoirs/ar-BB17zfik?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/pig-and-chicken-cull-possible-as-victoria-coronavirus-lockdown-hits-abattoirs/ar-BB17zfik?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] Federal Government asks childcare centres to protect places in Victoria as stage 4 coronavirus lockdown takes force [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/federal-government-asks-childcare-centres-to-protect-places-in-victoria-as-stage-4-coronavirus-lockdown-takes-force/ar-BB17zBbM?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/federal-government-asks-childcare-centres-to-protect-places-in-victoria-as-stage-4-coronavirus-lockdown-takes-force/ar-BB17zBbM?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] Federal Government working on plan to support childcare operators [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/federal-government-working-on-plan-to-support-childcare-operators/vi-BB17zctD?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/federal-government-working-on-plan-to-support-childcare-operators/vi-BB17zctD?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] Victoria's stage four restrictions will limit ability to deliver infrastructure projects, experts warn [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/victoria-s-stage-four-restrictions-will-limit-ability-to-deliver-infrastructure-projects-experts-warn/ar-BB17yTz3?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/victoria-s-stage-four-restrictions-will-limit-ability-to-deliver-infrastructure-projects-experts-warn/ar-BB17yTz3?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] BACKLOG CLEARED Backlog of $1,500 Victorian hardship payment cleared after administration removed from health department [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/backlog-of-1-500-victorian-hardship-payment-cleared-after-administration-removed-from-health-department/ar-BB17zY0r?ocid=msedgntp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/backlog-of-1-500-victorian-hardship-payment-cleared-after-administration-removed-from-health-department/ar-BB17zY0r?ocid=msedgntp[/url] "This is a letter to the people of Melbourne." I am a supermarket worker and today was hard. [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/smart-living/this-is-a-letter-to-the-people-of-melbourne-i-am-a-supermarket-worker-and-today-was-hard/ar-BB17xgfU?ocid=msedgntp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/smart-living/this-is-a-letter-to-the-people-of-melbourne-i-am-a-supermarket-worker-and-today-was-hard/ar-BB17xgfU?ocid=msedgntp[/url] BREECHES 800 residents flout self isolation directives in Melbourne [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/800-residents-flout-self-isolation-directives-in-melbourne/ar-BB17yXtk?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/800-residents-flout-self-isolation-directives-in-melbourne/ar-BB17yXtk?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] ROGUE FRANCHISE Jim's Mowing founder vows to defy Vic govt lockdowns [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/jim-s-mowing-founder-vows-to-defy-vic-govt-lockdowns/ar-BB17zmNa?ocid=msedgdhp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/jim-s-mowing-founder-vows-to-defy-vic-govt-lockdowns/ar-BB17zmNa?ocid=msedgdhp[/url] Jim's Mowing workers are not cleared to breach health orders: Andrews [url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/jim-s-mowing-workers-are-not-cleared-to-breach-health-orders-andrews/ar-BB17zFkW?ocid=msedgntp]https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/jim-s-mowing-workers-are-not-cleared-to-breach-health-orders-andrews/ar-BB17zFkW?ocid=msedgntp[/url] [/QUOTE]
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