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KEY POINTS
- No new cases in SA
- Sick South Australians not getting tested
- Call to stop lifting restrictions as Vic cases surge
- WHO reports biggest daily case increase
- Spain locks down region after new outbreaks
No new cases in SA
No new cases were recorded in South Australia on Sunday, according to SA Health.
There have been a total of 443 cases reported in SA, with the three currently active all from returned travellers in quarantine.
There have been more than 161,000 tests undertaken across the state.
NSW reported 14 cases on Sunday, and all were returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine.
Six people who returned to Western Australia on a flight from Dubai have also tested positive, with authorities examining their contact with other passengers.
They are in hotel quarantine, along with the other passengers from the flight.
More travellers arrived in Adelaide on Saturday, with 120 Australians beginning a mandatory fortnight of hotel quarantine in the city on Saturday night as they await test results, after flying in from Kuala Lumpur.
They will join 350 other people still in hotel quarantine, including about 100 defence force personnel.
Sick South Australians not getting tested
An SA Health survey has found close to three-quarters of respondents unwell last month did not get a COVID-19 test and did not plan to.
The Wellbeing SA June survey of 1621 people found almost a fifth had reported symptoms such as a cough or runny nose.
Of those unwell, 72 per cent did not test and said they did not plan to do so, a fifth did get a test, and a further 7 per cent planned to do so.
Authorities recommend anyone with symptoms to get a test, including if they have a sore throat, cough, fever, runny nose, or loss of smell or taste.
Call to halt restrictions lifting as Victorian cases surge
The COVID-19 resurgence in Victoria has prompted the Australian Medical Association to call for a temporary halt to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions across the country.
“These new outbreaks send a strong signal that the other states should rethink the pace of easing of their COVID-19 restrictions until community transmission in Melbourne is under control to avoid the risk of a similar situation playing out in their own communities,” AMA president Tony Bartone said in a statement on Sunday.
“Before rushing back to the pub, the footy crowds, or the big weddings and parties, Australia should pause and play it safe.”
The nation’s top medical officials held an emergency meeting on the weekend in response to the rising number of cases in Victoria.
Victoria on Sunday reported 74 new cases, following on from 108 cases on Saturday.
Melbourne housing blocks lockdown under fire
The Victorian government’s “ham-fisted” decision to lock down residents in nine inner-Melbourne public housing blocks for five days has blindsided thousands of people.
Victorian Public Tenants Association executive officer Mark Feenane said the more than 3000 tenants were unprepared for the surprise decision and many had been left without grocery and other supplies.
“It was just done in a pretty ham-fisted manner,” he told Nine’s Today Show on Monday.
“There was really inadequate notice to people who aren’t really well-resourced … no time to buy whatever essential items they needed.”
Police are guarding every entrance of the housing estates and residents are not allowed to leave their homes for any reason.
The hard lockdown was imposed by the government on Saturday in a bid to contain a break out of coronavirus after 27 people in the North Melbourne and Flemington towers tested positive to COVID-19.
The government says it will deliver food and medical supplies to residents, give a $1500 hardship payment to those who can’t go to work and pay $750 each to those not in the workforce.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has defended the lockdown, warning the state’s outbreak made strict measures necessary.
“We are going to see some big days, big numbers in the days ahead,” he told reporters on Sunday.
WHO reports biggest single day case rate
The World Health Organisation said member states reported more than 212,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world on Saturday, the highest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic.
More than 60 per cent of the confirmed cases reports it received were in the Americas, while South Africa reported more than 10,000 cases in a day for the first time.
The United States has dipped under 50,000 new daily infections for the first time in four days, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, but experts fear celebrations for the country’s Independence Day weekend may exacerbate its surging coronavirus outbreak.
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Johns Hopkins on Sunday counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections reported on Saturday in the US after three days in which the daily count reached as high as 54,500 new cases.
The lower figure does not mean the situation in the US is improving, it could be due to reduced reporting during a holiday.
The United States has the most infections and virus-related deaths in the world, with 2.8 million cases and nearly 130,000 dead, according to the university.
Worldwide, nearly 11.3 million people have been infected and more than 531,000 have died, with outbreaks surging in India, South Africa, Pakistan, Brazil and several other Latin American countries.
UK drinkers celebrate pubs reopening
In Britain, pubs and barbers reopened on Saturday for the first time in months.
It did not overwhelm emergency services as many had feared, but one senior police officer said on Sunday it was “crystal clear” that drunk people struggled, or ignored, social distancing rules.
Rafal Liszewski, a store manager in central London, voiced concerns about the swelling crowds on Saturday.
“Quickly everything got out of control and by 8-9pm it was a proper street party with people dancing and drinking,” he said.
“Barely anyone was wearing masks and nobody respected social distancing… to be honest, with that many people on one street, it was physically impossible.”
Spain locks down regions over outbreaks
Authorities in northwestern Spain have ordered the lockdown of a county with a population of 71,000 amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak.
Regional authorities in Galicia announced on Sunday that movement to and from A Marina county located on Spain’s northern Atlantic coast will be prohibited starting at midnight.
It will run through Friday, two days before the region holds elections.
The decision comes one day after regional authorities in northeast Catalonia locked down an area with more than 200,000 inhabitants.
Both lockdowns only allow people to leave the areas for work and other extenuating circumstances.
Spain ended a state of emergency that enabled the government to lockdown the entire country and prohibit travel between provinces or certain areas two weeks ago.
Spain has registered 205,545 coronavirus cases and 28,385 deaths according to health ministry data, making it one of Europe’s worst-affected countries.
OFFICIAL SOURCES OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION
Local updates and resources
State Government central information
Mental health support line (8am to 8pm): 1800 632 753.
National advice and information
Australian Government Coronavirus information hotline: 1800 020 080
Government information via WhatsApp: click here
Travel
Australian Government travel advice: smartraveller.gov.au
Check your symptoms
Free, government-funded, health advice: healthdirect.gov.au
– Reporting by InDaily staff, AAP and Reuters
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