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Victoria sought first-mover advantage on the production of future mRNA drugs on Wednesday, saying the state would commit $50 million towards a new facility capable of manufacturing Pfizer and Moderna-style vaccines in Australia for the first time.
National cabinet meets on Thursday, the second in a new schedule of twice-weekly meetings to boost the rollout. Â
Alex Ellinghausen
The announcement came as NSW authorities began investigating another possible instance of COVID-19 transmission inside Sydneyâs hotel quarantine system, after a returned travellerâs infection was linked to other guests at a second hotel, the Mercure on George Street in the CBD.
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Fragments of Covid-19 have been found in sewage water in 31 Melbourne suburbs despite no community cases of the virus in Victoria in nearly two months.
The updated alert on Tuesday night urged anyone living in the suburbs in northern and eastern Melbourne to monitor for symptoms of the virus.
Victoria s last locally acquired case was 53 days ago.
Health officials said the sewage samples were either due to a positive case shedding Covid-19 in the early stages of an infection or when they are no longer contagious.
Residents living in northern and eastern Melbourne have been told to monitor for symptoms of Covid-19 after fragments of the virus were found in sewage water (file image)
The federal government could send some of Victoria’s share of AstraZeneca vaccines to GPs, under a recalibrated program aimed at speeding up the vaccine rollout, Acting Premier James Merlino has suggested.