By David Estcourt
The Victorian boss of the Australian Medical Association says authoritiesâ current concerns are that the string of COVID-19 cases in Melbourneâs northern suburbs have spread to as-yet undiscovered locations throughout the city.
âThe worry is of course that it spread elsewhere in Melbourne,â Julian Rait told the
Today show. âThereâs a risk there might be multiple cases of course at this stage. Thatâs what the government I am sure is concerned about.â
Australian Medical Association Victoria president Julian Rait.
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Dr Rait said the recent outbreak reiterated the need for ongoing investment in public health services, which, despite the governmentâs efforts to scale up in the last 12 months, required years of investment.
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The founder and former managing director of Jump Swim, Ian Michael Campbell, was also ordered by the Court to pay $500,000 in compensation to franchisees, and to pay a penalty of $400,000. Jump Swim offered learn-to-swim school franchises for sale between March 2016 and July 2019. The Federal Court declared, by consent, that Jump Swim falsely represented to 174 franchisees that they would have an operational swim school within 12 months of signing a franchise agreement. Most of those franchisees never received an operational swim school. The court also found Jump Swim accepted payments from 127 franchisees when it knew it was unlikely to be able to provide a franchise within 12 months, or within a reasonable period of time.
Some Carver County schools, businesses reduce activities amid outbreak of COVID variant
The Minnesota Department of Health announced a rapidly growing outbreak on Friday.
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The announcement Friday that Carver County is in the midst of an outbreak of the B.1.1.7 U.K. variant of COVID-19 has prompted some school districts and local businesses to pause certain activities.
The Minnesota Department of Health said COVID cases in the southwest metro county have risen 62% between Feb. 24 and Mar. 4 and that the outbreak was rapidly growing, with at least 68 cases linked to participants in school-sponsored and club sports activities.
These cases in turn have led to transmission at local gyms and fitness centers, prompting MDH to recommend a county-wide pause of youth sports for two weeks, as well as calling on school districts to consider pausing extracurricular activities, and for gyms to actively screen its employees and strictly enforce mask-wearing.