Premier Daniel Andrews and COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar are providing a coronavirus update.
Canterbury-Bankstown LGA is causing the greatest concern for health authorities and it sounds like poor compliance in smaller workplaces is the problem.
Mr Hazzard said the LGA is a major area for workplaces and commended larger sites and distribution centres for their COVID-safety practices, but said smaller sites were falling behind.
“I think in that area we’ve got Woolworths and Coles and Aldi and Metcash. They are doing a fantastic job. The work they’re doing is incredible they’re making sure that COVID safe plans are comply with. They’ve also taken steps to make sure their staff get vaccinated,” he said.
“Some of the smaller businesses - not so good. And so that’s why I said a little earlier, you need to actually have your COVID safe plan and stick to it, because you don’t want your business to be the one that actually gets shut down.”
Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said police were aware of issues at smaller shops and supermarkets, which some people were using to congregate for long periods.
“In terms of the smaller shops, also the larger shops, but the smaller shops; the butchers, the grocery shops... the coffee shops,” he said.
“What we are seeing is that people seem to want to go to these smaller shops, and indeed to supermarkets, in a pre-arranged fashion, and then hang around for hours on end. And what I would ask is that there’s a responsibility not just on the person, but the business.”
Mr Hazzard has responded to comments by the nation’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly that the state needed a “circuit-breaker” to refocus the state’s strategy in the outbreak.
“We have the toughest lockdown in the country the present time,” Mr Hazzard said. “What is not happening is that people are not actually complying and...if people don’t comply, then obviously the community will continue to suffer.
“I did see Paul Kelly his comments. He hasn’t told us what that circuit breaker would be,” he said.
“I think what it does is just expresses the concerns that we all have, that the circuit breaker in NSW and in Sydney is for people to comply with the rules. It’s pretty simple to stay at home - that’s the circuit breaker.
“And I think the PM has said that many times, as well as the Premier.”
NSW Health has scrapped its plan to transport year 12 students to their vaccinations by bus at the last minute and is instead telling them to make their own way there, a move principals say will put hesitant or disadvantaged kids off getting their shot.
NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard provides a COVID-19 update.Credit:Rhett Wyman
Mr Hazzard said the government had tried hard to arrange the transport, but that education staff were “not keen to be supervising.
“So in the end it was decided a lot of the kids, a lot of young people have their own licenses anyway, or the mums and dads had indicated they were more than happy to take them.”
Four new cases of COVID have been confirmed in young people in Newcastle, taking the total number of cases in the Hunter New England area to 13 since Thursday.
Dr McAnulty said virus fragments had been detected in Dubbo’s sewage network, where there were currently no known cases of COVID.
NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAunlty on Saturday.Credit:Rhett Wyman
“So we are urging the community of Dubbo to come forward for testing with even the mildest of symptoms, take it very seriously. If there’s a case here we need to find them to make sure the community is safe,” he said.
Dr McAnulty said Canterbury-Bankstown LGA was now causing the greatest concern for health authorities, accounting for 92 of the new cases recorded overnight.
“It’s our most prominent LGA. So people in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA, please take extreme caution. Follow the stay-at-home rules, follow all the rules for authorised workers, keep each other safe.“
There are now 345 people with COVID in hospital, including 56 in intensive care. Of those in ICU, 51 have not been vaccinated.
There have been five deaths since yesterday: a woman in her 80s, a man in his 80s, and a man in his 90s died at Liverpool hospital.
The number of deaths linked to the Liverpool Hospital cluster has grown.Credit:Kate Geraghty
There are now five deaths linked to the Liverpool hospital outbreak.
Dr Jeremy McAnulty said another man in his 60s and a man in his 80s from the inner west have also died.
“None of these five deaths, people who died were vaccinated, and we extend our sincere sympathies to their loved ones,” he said.
There are two cases in the Armidale area, which came in late last night.
Armidale local government area is now in lockdown from 5pm today, for one week. The restrictions will be equivalent to those in greater Sydney and the Lower and Upper Hunter.
Mr Hazzard said the cases may be the result of “a particular young person going into that area and apparently transmitting it to somebody else.“
“If I were living in that area I would actually not be going out of my house today. I would be staying at home, I wouldn’t be visiting friends.”
NSW has recorded 319 new local cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday, with most cases in south-west and western Sydney.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard said 125 have been identified already as linked to previous cases and 108 are contacts of households. However 194 are still under investigation.
NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard provides a COVID-19 update.Credit:Rhett Wyman
The state conducted 108,449 tests to 8pm last night.
Mr Hazzard has announced a “big day out for food providers of Sydney” on Sunday. Any essential workers who deal with food, work in supermarkets can get a vaccine at Sydney Olympic Park on Sunday. He said there are 4000 vacancies for jabs.
Eligible workers can make an appointment for a jab by going to nsw.gov.au
Mr Hazzard said almost 50 per cent of people in NSW have received a first dose of a vaccine, while the number of vaccines administered in NSW are increasing by 5 per cent every week.
It’s almost 11am and you know what that means.
Stand by for the NSW COVID update. Today we will be hearing from Health Minister Brad Hazzard, NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty and NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys.
The government yesterday warned NSW to prepare for higher case numbers. Let’s see if they are right.
So far today we have had 29 new cases in Victoria and 13 in Queensland.
The outbreak of Delta clustered around Brisbane’s west is putting so much pressure on local supermarkets that delivery times for groceries is as long as three days.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles.Credit:Matt Dennien
More than 10,000 people are in home quarantine, many of them entire families from the suburbs of Indooroopilly, Taringa, St Lucia, and are relying on home delivery for essentials. Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles said hundreds of supermarkets workers forced into quarantine was compounding the problem.
He said people having trouble getting timely delivery of their groceries should ask friends from lesser-impacted suburbs to ‘click and collect’ from other supermarkets and have them drop it at their doors.
Supermarkets had opened up priority delivery slots, redeployed staff and added additional delivery trucks, while UberEats had partnered with IGA to provide an additional delivery option, Mr Miles said.
“Supermarkets have also asked if we could remind people in the lockdown areas that are going out to the supermarket for essential supplies, to do so alone if possible,” he said.
“Get one member of the household to get groceries, don’t all go together. That will assist supermarkets in maintaining social distancing.“
He said anyone who needed help would get it by calling 134 COVID.
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