- Victoria's COVID Commander Jeroen Weimar said if people were looking to do use in-home vaccination service, they should contact their local GP or local public health team first.
- Masks will be coming off indoors today across much of the east coast, while a mask mandate has been extended in Western Australia.
- Calls for COVID fines to be waived for vulnerable people in debt and unable to pay.
- In New South Wales, From today, masks will no longer be mandatory in most indoor settings in NSW, but will still be required on public transport, and in hospitals and aged-care facilities.
- Masks will also still be required to visit prisons and at indoor music festivals with more than 1,000 people.
- Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley says the government is focusing on making vaccines as accessible as possible for as many people as possible. He says the home vaccination program will be expanded and there will be pop-up vaccine hubs at religious venues, sporting clubs and schools.
- In Victoria, Masks will remain mandatory for students year 3 or above at primary school and workers at early childhood centres and primary schools.
- Mr Foley says that's because primary school-aged children haven't had two doses of a vaccine yet.
- In South Australia, dancing and singing will be allowed at private functions and bigger sporting crowds can attend seated outdoor venues also, stand-up drinking will be allowed to host 50 per cent capacity from this weekend.
- Hong Kong's government invoked emergency powers to allow doctors and nurses from the Chinese mainland to work in the territory to help combat a spiralling coronavirus outbreak.
COVID-19 Australian Stats
New South Wales reported 1,144 patients hospitalised with 64 in intensive care. There were 6 deaths, and 7,583 new cases of COVID-19.
In Victoria, 301 people are in hospital with 38 in ICU and 4 on ventilators. There were 11 deaths and 6,580 new infections.
In Queensland, there were 5,440 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths. 350 people are hospitalised with COVID-19, with 30 patients in intensive care.
Tasmania has recorded one death with 851 new COVID-19 cases. 11 people are in hospital with COVID-19, two of them in ICU.
In the ACT 41 people are now in hospital with COVID-19, with 3 patients in intensive care. No death has been reported with 773 new cases.
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