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Premier Daniel Andrews has announced the state's snap five-day lockdown will end at midnight tonight, as planned, after recording zero new cases. "Can I say I am very proud of every single Victorian for the work they have done," he said. Earlier the health department also confirmed no new infections were recorded in hotel quarantine today. A staggering number of Victorians were tested with almost 40,000 swabs taken in the past 24 hours. That is significantly more than the 24,000 from the previous day - as the total number of locally acquired active cases remained at 16. The number of ac...

Daniel Andrews fired up when pressed on whether he could rule out further lockdowns in Victoria, as the state prepares to reopen – but with conditions.

Mr Morrison said on Friday that moving hotel quarantine to regional areas would only create “another set of risks. You’ve got transfer risks. You’ve got a workforce that you have to have in place in those situations. You’re further away from major, big hospitals.” But Professor Toole said the federal government should consider building regional quarantine facilities, and Victorian locations could include Avalon Airport, Ballarat and Bendigo. He warned this would be a time-consuming and expensive exercise. “We’re not China, we can’t build these things in...

The Opposition Leader said the Prime Minister had deliberately handed responsibility to the states so he could blame them when issues arose.

Questions over hotel quarantine as calls made for national protocols Normal text size Credit:Getty Images Toowoomba’s Wagner family have a reputation for getting things done. It took their company just 19 months to build the town’s Wellcamp airport, which since opening in 2014 has evolved into a busy freight hub for flights to and from Asia. Now, against the backdrop of rising alarm about vulnerabilities in city-based quarantine hotels, they’ve set their sights on constructing a 1000-bed quarantine facility (with potential to expand further) on land they own nearby. Wagner Corporation c...