Ms Palaszczuk said Mr McCormick s exemption request was still with New South Wales Health.(9News)
Ms Palaszczuk said Mr McCormick s exemption request was still with New South Wales Health. Our hearts go out to him, to lose someone so close, it s just awful, Ms Palaszczuk said. We all lose relatives, it s not nice.
The premier defended the state s exemption department and said she has asked for additional staff to assist with the hundreds of exemption requests. These are very tragic situations ⦠there s hundreds of exemptions that people are applying for, and we re trying to process them as quickly as possible, Ms Palaszczuk said.
6 July 2021 12:59pm
Priests and staff of St George Greek Orthodox Church and the community centre in Brisbane have gone into isolation after four cases of COVID-19 in the city were linked to the church and the community centre in the past week.
Last week a mother and her child who had visited the church’s community centre tested positive for the A-variant of the virus. Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young revealed that the Brisbane’s Greek Community Centre was one of the sites that was visited by a mother and daughter who were found to have contracted the COVID-19 virus on Thursday.
Security guards are seen at the Meriton Suites in Waterloo are seen in Sydney, on Tuesday, 6 July. Health authorities have issued a stern warning after three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases were linked to a “gathering” in the Sydney apartment building. Photo: Mick Tsikas: AAP
6 July 2021 10:00am
Premier Gladys Berejiklian says NSW has recorded 18 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday, with 11 of those in isolation during the infectious period.
Victoria noted its 6th day with no cases, with the total number of active cases in the state at 25. Over the past 24 hours the Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS) reported 15,451 vaccine doses were administered, bringing the total to 1,189,708 vaccinations in the state.
2 July 2021 1:25pm
Australia’s National Cabinet has agreed to halve the number of people allowed into Australia per week and set up vaccination targets.
International arrivals will be capped at 3,035 people per week from 14 July, in rules which will be in place until at least the start of next year. The number of arrivals will be a drop from 6,370.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said National Cabinet would consider changing the caps sooner should the medical advice on the caps change.
In response to calls by the governments of Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, commercial flight numbers would be cut, but repatriation flights would increase though there were no details given regarding the number of extra flights to be provided.
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