Mathew Dunckley and Roy Ward11:42, Jun 04 2021
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There have been four new cases of Covid-19 recorded in the Australian state of Victoria. The timetable for the state’s extended lockdown will not be changed despite two local cases of “fleeting transmission” being reclassified as false positives.
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Victoria’s Acting Premier James Merlino said the cases would not alter the Australian state’s lockdown timetable. Victorian authorities revealed late on Thursday that two cases of “stranger-to-stranger transmission” – the existence of which had been used to build the case for the extended lockdown – have been reclassified as false positives.
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Australia Signs MOU With State for Quarantine Facility
The Australian Commonwealth government and the Victorian state government have reached an agreement on a stand-alone quarantine facility, with the site yet to be confirmed.
Victoria’s stand-alone virus quarantine facility will go ahead although the state and federal governments are yet to agree on where it will be built.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Canberra the Commonwealth will pay for the facility but the Victorian government would run the facility and cover the operational expenses.
“This will both assist [the Victorian government] in the risk management of various groups they’re providing for in their quarantine system as well as providing additional capacity for the quarantine system in Victoria,” Morrison said.
Australia: Melbourne schools to reopen amid COVID-19 lockdown, threatening teacher, student safety
In a reckless move that needlessly threatens the safety of teachers, school workers and students, the Victorian state Labor government announced Wednesday that Melbourne high schools will reopen for Year 11 and 12 students from next week.
This follows a week-long closure of most schools that was imposed as part of an initially planned seven-day lockdown triggered by community transmission of the dangerous COVID-19 Kappa variant. Today authorities reported they had detected the even more contagious Delta variant. The lockdown has been extended for another seven days, but with a series of relaxed restrictions, including the reopening of schools for senior students in Melbourne and the resumption of all schools face-to-face teaching in regional Victoria.
Victorians trapped in the midst of its fourth lockdown disaster are bracing for more pain after enduring a week of lies and blunders from their overbearing government.