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The Sydney removalists who brought the Delta strain of COVID-19 into Victoria and sparked a state-wide lockdown will not be charged for any breaches of health orders. The Department of Health's compliance and enforcement team yesterday completed its investigation into the three removalists, probing whether they had breached the Public Health and Wellbeing Act and the Chief Health Officer's directions. The department found the removalists entered Victoria on a valid permit - the Specified Worker (Low Workplace Interaction) permit - which is designed for commercial freight workers. READ MORE: P...

Daniel Andrews will make Victorians wait another day to find out when the state's fifth lockdown will end, as 11 more cases were recorded. The Victorian premier told reporters on Sunday morning that health experts will have to look at the number of new infections on Monday before they decide whether restrictions will be eased on Tuesday, as planned. 'Hopefully we could be in a position to ease some of these restrictions and rules from midnight on Tuesday, but we need to see what tomorrow's numbers look like,' he said. He also described the highly-contagious Indian Delta variant as 'a wholly ...

Share on Twitter Victorian health minister Martin Foley has hosed down the idea of tensions with NSW over a lack of willingness to redirect vaccines to Sydney's virus-ridden suburbs. Praising Victoria's "encouraging" downwards trend in COVID-19 cases on Saturday, Mr Foley said his and other states had "legitimate demands" on scarce vaccines for July and August which had already been allocated to them based on population. He welcomed recent reports of spare Pfizer doses in the national stockpile and said he'd be happy for those to be sent to NSW. Mr Foley's comments followed NSW He...

Thousands of protesters have marched in Sydney and Melbourne in backlash over strict lockdowns  Sydneysiders took to Twitter to say they witnessed protesters and police clashing in suburban streets  Protesters chanted 'freedom', held up placards, and were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing  Police were out in force to meet the protesters with mounted officers present and multiple arrests