COVID-19 update: Victoria goes back into lockdown

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 5 August 2021.

People are seen dining at the Wolf Cafe & Eatery in Altona North after it was announced as a tier 1 site by the government, in Melbourne, Thursday, August 5, 2021.

Source: AP Image/Daniel Pockett

Victoria will enter its sixth COVID-19 lockdown from 8 pm
Hunter Valley region goes into lockdown from 5 pm
All new cases in Brisbane linked
Prime Minister confirms extra Pfizer COVID-19 doses for NSW

Victoria

Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed the state will be placed into a seven-day lockdown, effective from 8 Thursday, the 5th of August.

Victoria has recorded eight locally acquired cases and will enter its sixth lockdown less than two weeks after the state has emerged from its last one.

New South Wales

NSW has recorded 262 new locally acquired cases and five deaths. Four people who died were not vaccinated, while the fifth person had received one dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

New restrictions will be introduced for Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Singleton, Dungog, Muswellbrook and Cessnock from 5 pm today until 12.01 am on the 13th of August.

Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant urges people from Armidale and Dubbo to get tested as virus levels in sewage systems have risen.

NSW authorities plead with everyone to get vaccinated. Find here the

list of vaccination clinics

Queensland

Queensland has recorded 16 new locally acquired cases, all linked to the existing cluster.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles says 12 of these cases in Brisbane have been isolated for their entire infectious period. With 79 active cases, the end of the lockdown on the 8th of August remains uncertain.

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Quarantine, travel, testing clinics and pandemic disaster payment

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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

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