Ms Capp said a local resident near a known drug hotspot area at the intersection of Flinders and Elizabeth streets described it as a slum. Nobody wants that, she said. Any response to address these issues must improve the outcomes, not exacerbate the situation. I acknowledge that the location of a medically supervised injecting service in the City of Melbourne will be controversial. But the evidence shows services such as these save lives, and they do reduce the number of people who are shooting up in our city streets. Combating addiction is incredibly complex. Reducing drug use and dependency would benefit our entire society.
While no lockdown was called on Wednesday, Merlino said the next 24 hours would be critical and vowed to provide updates as soon as he knew. The message this morning is it s good that everyone is linked at this stage but we are concerned about the number and also about the kind of exposure sites, he told reporters. The next 24 hours are going to be critical if we re going to have to make further changes beyond the changes we announced yesterday.
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says authorities had run down multiple generations of transmission over the past 48 hours, which was fantastic - but warned exposure sites going back several days were a concern .
The European Union attacked AstraZeneca Plc’s vaccine supply “failure” and demanded an urgent order for millions more doses in the latest round of a bitter legal dispute over alleged broken promises by the drugmaker.
Zero cases today, Government say Melbourne bubble halt appropriate
Zero cases today, Government say Melbourne bubble halt appropriate Wed, 26 May 2021, 12:58PM
Kiwi health officials are closely monitoring the Melbourne Covid outbreak, with the suspension of the transtasman bubble with Victoria described as an appropriate and proportionate response.
There are no new Covid cases to report in New Zealand today.
Hipkins said there have been 562,149 Covid vaccines administered in New Zealand so far - 85,000 more than this time last week.
A total of 195,000 people have now been fully vaccinated with both doses.
Hipkins said the Government was 8 per cent ahead of the rollout schedule.