COVID-19 update: Tamworth enters lockdown in NSW as restrictions ease in regional Victoria

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 9 August 2021.

Health Workers at a drive-through COVID-19 vaccine hub in Melton, Monday, August 9, 2021. Victoria has entered a seven-day lockdown to contain a growing outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in the state. (AAP Image/Luis Ascui) NO ARCHIVING

Health Workers at a drive-through COVID-19 vaccine hub in Melton, Monday, August 9, 2021. Source: AAP Image/Luis Ascui

Tamworth to enter lockdown, Byron Bay on high alert
Lockdown in regional Victoria ends from midnight tonight
Australia's first drive-through vaccination hub opens in Melbourne
Mandatory QR code check-in system announced in Tasmania

New South Wales

NSW has recorded 283 new locally acquired cases and one death. At least 64 cases were in the community while infectious.

Tamworth will enter a seven-day lockdown from 5pm as several

exposure venues

have been identified after a positive case from Newcastle travelled to the area.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian also calls for increased testing in the Byron Bay area, where one man tested positive to COVID-19.

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list of vaccination clinics

Victoria

Victoria has recorded 11 new locally acquired cases, all linked to the existing cluster.

Premier Daniel Andrews announces the end of lockdown for regional Victoria from 12:01am Tuesday 10 August and warns Melbourne residents not to travel within the state without a valid reason.

Australia's first drive-through vaccination hub has opened in Melton, in Melbourne’s west. Find here the

list of vaccination centres

Last 24 hours around Australia

Queensland has recorded four new locally acquired cases. Find here
restrictions in place for South East Queensland.
Lockdown in Cairns and Yarrabah will end at 4 pm on Wednesday 11 August.
In Tasmania, all Uber and taxi services will be required to have a QR code check-in system from 6 pm on Friday 13 August.

Quarantine, travel, testing clinics and pandemic disaster payment

Quarantine and testing requirements are managed and enforced by state and territory governments:

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QLD

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TAS

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If you want to travel overseas, you may be able to apply online for an exemption.

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for more information about the conditions to leave Australia. There are temporary measures for international flights that are regularly reviewed by the government and updated on the

Smart Traveller

website.