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Expanded testing of SA wastewater
Testing of South Australian wastewater will be expanded, after evidence of coronavirus was discovered at two treatment plants.
One of the positive sewerage tests came from a treatment plant at Bolivar, which has a catchment of 700,000 properties, including Adelaide’s CBD where virus patients have been kept in hotels.
The other positive test came from Angaston in the Barossa Valley, covering about 2000 properties.
Prof Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier on Saturday said the results did not necessarily point to community transmission, and further wastewater testing will be carried in days to come.
“We can’t trace that back and say there is definitely people in these areas with COVID-19,” she said.
“It doesn’t mean we have an infectious case out there but we certainly couldn’t rule that out.”
The virus was excreted in faeces for a “prolonged period” after someone tested positive, she said.
Authorities will ramp up testing at Bolivar and Angaston to try and determine the cause of the positive results.
Spurrier added wastewater is being tested in three communities in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.
Testing is also underway at a number of SA Water’s other sewage treatment plants.
It comes as restrictions further eased on Saturday, with up to 150 people now allowed to attend weddings and funerals, and restrictions at bars further relaxed.
About 200 people rallied in Adelaide to protest against government coronavirus restrictions, a possible vaccine and privacy breaches.
The peaceful protest, part of a national wave of anti-lockdown marches, started in Rundle Park and from East Terrace along North Terrace to South Australia’s Parliament House.
South Australia records first case in 12 days
South Australia has registered a new COVID-19 case for the first time in 12 days.
A Victorian woman in her 20s who tried to travel through Adelaide Airport to Alice Springs without correct permission tested positive in hotel quarantine late on Friday.
She had arrived from Melbourne on a Jetstar flight on Thursday along with four of her young cousins.
“We were not expecting this person to be coming into South Australia,” Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier told reporters on Saturday.
“In fact, our normal procedure would have been to book a flight and send her back to Victoria but given she had four young people with her, we elected to put her in a medi-hotel.”
The woman had no virus symptoms and further testing was being done to determine if it was an old infection, Professor Spurrier said, saying the woman likely had no close contacts.
Tough Father’s Day under restrictions
Father’s Day will be quieter for many Australian families this year as tough restrictions across Victoria, gathering limits in other states, and border closures hamper traditions.
Australia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Michael Kidd on Saturday said today would be a hard Father’s Day for many who would be separated from their dads because of health measures.
NSW Health advised against visiting fathers in aged care homes in Sydney, Blue Mountains or Central Coast on Sunday.
“We understand this will be difficult for many families on Father’s Day, however our priority is to prevent the spread of the virus into the most vulnerable people in the community,” Dr Christine Selvey said.
Victoria recorded 11 additional deaths and 76 new diagnoses on Saturday while NSW recorded five, and Queensland one.
New modelling indicates Victoria will not be in a safe position to ease lockdown restrictions on September 14, when current Stage 4 restrictions are due to expire.
The state is today set to extend the lockdown for weeks, with some likely changes to allow people living alone to have a visitor, and a limited relaxing of exercise and workplace rules.
Travis Boak of the Power kicks during the Round 16 AFL match between the North Melbourne Kangaroos and Port Adelaide Power at Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast. Photo: AAP/Dave Hunt
Trouble for Port pair after big AFL win
AFL ladder leaders Port Adelaide have lost Ryan Burton to injury after what could prove to be a costly 36-point win over North Melbourne.
In his second game back from a quadriceps injury, Burton went down with the same issue before quarter-time at Metricon Stadium on Saturday night, where Port Adelaide notched a comfortable 11.12 (78) to 6.6 (42) victory .
The Power may pay an additional price for the win, with Zak Butters to face match review scrutiny following a high bump on North’s Jy Simpkin during the third quarter.
Simpkin was ordered to the bench and played no further part in the match.
The Kangaroos showed fight and scrapped to stay with Port in the first half.
But the Power’s better ball movement and efficiency in attack were telling as Ollie Wines, Travis Boak and Tom Rockliff controlled the midfield battle.
Wines and key forward Charlie Dixon kicked two goals apiece as Port spread the scoring load.
Toll rises from Bangladesh mosque explosion
The death toll from a suspected gas explosion and fire at a mosque outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has risen to 20.
The explosion on Friday night hit as Muslim worshippers were about to end their evening prayers at the Baitus Salat Jame mosque in Narayanganj district, nearly 25km south of Dhaka.
Thirty-seven victims with severe wounds were taken to Dhaka’s specialist burn and plastic surgery institute.
Among those to die at hospital was the mosque’s imam, doctor Partha Sankar Paul told reporters, adding the death toll could rise further.
Doctors say seven-year-old boy who had burns on nearly 95 per cent of his body died hours after he was admitted to the hospital.
Authorities suspect a gas leak might have caused the explosion.
“Primarily, we are suspecting that gas accumulated from a line beneath the mosque might have caused the explosion,” said Abdullah Al Arefin from the fire service.
Six air conditioners inside the mosque also exploded, he said.
A police bomb disposal unit has collected evidence from the scene to examine the cause of the blast.
The state-run gas transmission and distribution agency, Titas, and the district administration have launched separate probes into the accident.
Second typhoon halts cattle ship search
Japan’s coastguard has suspended its search for crew missing from a cattle ship in the East China Sea due to bad weather from a typhoon.
A third crewman from the Gulf Livestock 1 that capsized in a storm off Japan with a crew of 43, including two Australians and two New Zealanders, and a cargo of nearly 6000 cattle, was found alive on Friday.
The search continued through noon Japan time, without finding more crew but vessels, planes and divers were pulled out due to bad weather, Junpei Sakaguchi, an officer at search and rescue division at the 10th regional maritime safety headquarters of Japan Coast Guard told Reuters by phone.
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“We plan to resume the search when sea and weather conditions improve but we don’t know when that would be as it will depend on weather,” he said.
The powerful Typhoon Haishen is approaching southwestern Japan, with weather forecasters warning of heavy rain, huge waves and high tides.
The Gulf Livestock 1 was transporting cattle from New Zealand to China when it sent a distress call from the west of Amami Oshima island in southwestern Japan on Wednesday as Typhoon Maysak lashed the area with strong winds and heavy seas.
The third rescued crewman, 30-year-old Filipino Jay-nel Rosals, was found on a life raft waving for help 2km off Kodakarajima, a small island in Japan’s southern Kagoshima prefecture.
Rescuers also found an overturned orange lifeboat floating off Kodakarajima but no one was found on that boat.
Rosals’ rescue came hours after another crewman died after being pulled unconscious from the water by the coastguard.
– with AAP and Reuters
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