Victoria’s Health Minister Jenny Mikakos says the state has detected 149 new cases of coronavirus and 24 people with COVID-19 have died.
Ms Mikakos, speaking on RN, said Victoria still had a “very serious situation” to deal with and defended the State Government proposal to amend legislation to allow the state of emergency to be extended by up to 12 months.
The Minister said the latest deaths were “overwhelmingly” in aged care.
They take the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 462.
Guests inside the Sydney Travelodge Hotel say they complained about unsanitary conditions inside their rooms months before the NSW Government scrapped it from its coronavirus quarantine program.
Last night, returned overseas travellers who were placed in hotel quarantine at the Travelodge hotel in Surry Hills were evacuated after it was found not to meet standards during a police audit.
Many of them had paid up to $3,000 for the two weeks of mandatory quarantine.
More than 360 guests at the Wentworth Avenue accommodation — which TripAdvisor lists as costing $120 per night — were moved to other quarantine hotels around Sydney.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced $1,500 will be made available to Tasmanians who have to self-isolate but don’t have sick leave entitlements.
A similar arrangement is already in place in Victoria.
New trial results released by the team behind one of Australian’s leading coronavirus vaccine candidates show it is safe and “likely to provide protection” against COVID-19.
Scientists from the University of Queensland (UQ) released information late on Tuesday night about its vaccine’s pre-clinical trials, showing it triggered the immune system to protect against the disease.
The UQ vaccine, which uses what is known as “molecular clamp” technology, is different to the Oxford University-AstraZeneca’s chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine which the Australian Government signed a “letter of intent” with last week.
The UQ candidate has been conducting human trials since early July, and although it is behind the Oxford University candidate in the testing process, it is considered by most experts to be the most promising of the handful of Australian vaccines under development.
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