Latest snapshot of the coronavirus impact - Ballarat Courier

LATEST COVID-19 DEVELOPMENTS: * Senior government figures and health advisers say the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective, following calls from a backbencher to suspend Australia's rollout. * Nationals senator Matt Canavan wants Australia to follow the lead of a number of European nations while authorities investigate potential links between the vaccine and blood clots. * Prime Minister Scott Morrison told parliament the senator's view did not represent government policy, while Health Minister Greg Hunt said the coalition "clearly, unequivocally, absolutely supports the AstraZeneca roll out". * Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said Australia saw 17,000 blood clot cases every year and there was no evidence overseas instances were linked to the COVID-19 vaccine. * Premier Gladys Berejiklian isn't wavering in her determination to get as many people in NSW vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible. * NSW has recorded no new cases in the community since a security guard, who worked at a Sydney quarantine hotel, was diagnosed with the virus at the weekend. * There are still also no reports of coronavirus spreading in Brisbane, six days after a doctor became infected. * Guests at the Hotel Grand Chancellor will find out on Wednesday if their quarantine will be extended again. * Queensland reported two new cases in hotel quarantine on Tuesday, unlinked to the Grand Chancellor, with 37 active cases in the state. * South Australia will continue administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine despite a growing number of major European countries pausing their program. * SA Health reported two new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s who recently returned from overseas. * Australia is now on high alert over a worsening coronavirus outbreak in Papua New Guinea which poses a "clear and present danger" to both nations. * Brett Sutton and Jeannette Young, chief health officers of Victoria and Queensland respectively, have opened up on the personal toll of managing their states' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. AUSTRALIAN CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS: * Australia recorded no new locally acquired case of the coronavirus on Tuesday. There were seven new overseas-acquired cases in hotel quarantine; two in NSW, Queensland and SA, and one in WA. * The national death toll is 909: Victoria 820, NSW 56, Tasmania 13, WA 9, Queensland 6, SA 4, ACT 3 (Two Queensland residents who died in NSW have been included in the official tolls of both states). GLOBAL CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS: * Cases: at least 120,217,000 * Deaths: at least 2,660,000 * Recovered: at least 68,185,000. Data current as of 1730 AEDT on March 15, taking in federal and state/territory government updates and Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre figures. Australian Associated Press

LATEST COVID-19 DEVELOPMENTS:

* Senior government figures and health advisers say the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective, following calls from a backbencher to suspend Australia's rollout.

* Nationals senator Matt Canavan wants Australia to follow the lead of a number of European nations while authorities investigate potential links between the vaccine and blood clots.

* Prime Minister Scott Morrison told parliament the senator's view did not represent government policy, while Health Minister Greg Hunt said the coalition "clearly, unequivocally, absolutely supports the AstraZeneca roll out".

* Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said Australia saw 17,000 blood clot cases every year and there was no evidence overseas instances were linked to the COVID-19 vaccine.

* Premier Gladys Berejiklian isn't wavering in her determination to get as many people in NSW vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible.

* NSW has recorded no new cases in the community since a security guard, who worked at a Sydney quarantine hotel, was diagnosed with the virus at the weekend.

* There are still also no reports of coronavirus spreading in Brisbane, six days after a doctor became infected.

* Guests at the Hotel Grand Chancellor will find out on Wednesday if their quarantine will be extended again.

* Queensland reported two new cases in hotel quarantine on Tuesday, unlinked to the Grand Chancellor, with 37 active cases in the state.

* South Australia will continue administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine despite a growing number of major European countries pausing their program.

* SA Health reported two new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s who recently returned from overseas.

* Australia is now on high alert over a worsening coronavirus outbreak in Papua New Guinea which poses a "clear and present danger" to both nations.

* Brett Sutton and Jeannette Young, chief health officers of Victoria and Queensland respectively, have opened up on the personal toll of managing their states' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

AUSTRALIAN CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Australia recorded no new locally acquired case of the coronavirus on Tuesday. There were seven new overseas-acquired cases in hotel quarantine; two in NSW, Queensland and SA, and one in WA.

* The national death toll is 909: Victoria 820, NSW 56, Tasmania 13, WA 9, Queensland 6, SA 4, ACT 3 (Two Queensland residents who died in NSW have been included in the official tolls of both states).

GLOBAL CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Cases: at least 120,217,000

* Deaths: at least 2,660,000

* Recovered: at least 68,185,000.

Data current as of 1730 AEDT on March 15, taking in federal and state/territory government updates and Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre figures.

Australian Associated Press

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