Police are investigating the damage suffered by Daniel Andrews voters overnight as the NSW government heeded a warning about the southwest Sydney cluster.
Unemployment rose from 6. 8% to 6. 9% in September, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Last month, labour force numbers in August showed an astonishing 0. 7% drop in unemployment from 7. 5% to 6. 8%.
This is the month when unemployment is higher than expected, but all the statistics in the September workforce are positive: 29,500 jobs have been lost and underemployment has also risen to 11. 4%.
In general, the statistics are very stable. The number of hours worked in line with monthly accumulation increased from 1. 68 billion to 1. 688 million, an accumulation of nine million hours.
State by state, the Northern Territory the maximum affected in terms of employment (-5. 5%), followed by Victoria (-1. 1%).
A little more main points about the new NSW cases, before moving to Victoria. The Lakemba GP cluster now includes 15 cases, adding a circle of family contacts.
The two cases under investigation are the user of Bargo, still announced in today’s figures, and a guy who lives in southeast Sydney. Close touches of any of them have been identified, tested and isolated, and have already been touched close to the user in Bargo. tested positive.
Some of the positive cases traveled by public transport when they were potentially infectious. All users of the following facilities are requested to check themselves for symptoms imaginable:
NSW Health said it strongly encourages others to wear masks when they cannot distance therself physically, especially indoors and on public transport.
Back in Sydney, Brad Hazzard said the state government “closely monitors” coronavirus figures and tests the figures to see when it could simply ease restrictions. He said the government sought to ease restrictions, but would balance that with the risks of fitness. .
He said it was hard to make that call with such low check numbers. NSW recorded 15,802 checks and aims at 20,000 checks depending on the day.
Hazzard said the most productive technique for:
Treat everyone like they have Covid and it will be the smartest course for everyone right now.
I just looked for the right guy and my comments on the timing of Daniel Andrews’ press conference today. It takes place at 11:51 a. m.
NSW’s fitness director, Dr. Kerry Chant, said public fitness officials had contacted a “large number of patients” at the Lakemba GP clinic to have a comprehensive policy of all possible contacts.
Chant asked if she was now “comfortable” with the shape of this specific epidemic, to allow New South Wales to move forward with the easing of restrictions.
My point of convenience is to pass up and down. I’m more worried, I’m less involved today. I’m not going to stop by to bet on Covid.
He said today’s three new instances were a circle of contacts from family members of past known instances.
The two unidentified cases include a man in his 50s in south-western Sydney. She said it could take some time to trace back connections, adding it was “not a forensic science”.
We ask people to go back over their credit card records, we ask people to validate with their family what they have done … this is not a perfect science.
Chant said the reason she pushed back on releasing some information about people who tested positive to Covid-19 because that was “part of our pact with the public”. They agree to get tested and provide full and frank information about their movements, and public health officials ensure they are not identified at press conferences. It is not useful to have people “pilloried in public,” Chant said.
Hazzard has picked up the reports of the Melbourne truck driver who did not fully disclose his movements to contact tracers and spread the virus to Shepparton, which is within the NSW border bubble.
Public health officials need to be able to track the trains of transmission. That’s impossible if people do not tell us where they have been.
Hazzard said that because Shepparton was in the bubble, NSW had to be on “very high alert in that southern area”, including placing more alerts on aged care facilities and health facilities on the NSW side of that border bubble.
We are not interested in any of your personal activities, we are not interested in any legal activities you may have been involved in, public health just want you to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
One of the other new cases is a household contact of a man in Bargo, who tested positive yesterday. The two remaining locally acquired cases remain under investigation.
NSW health minister Brad Hazzard is giving the coronavirus update in Sydney.
He says the state recorded six locally acquired cases in the past 24-hours, twinning with Victoria, and five in hotel quarantine.
Three of the locally acquired cases are connected to the Lakemba GP cluster.
Hazzard said the testing numbers were still too low.
We are aiming to have at least 20,000 a day and while we have these positive cases still amongst us … the emphasis that Dr Chant and I have is please get tested.
NSW chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, and the health minister, Brad Hazzard, will give the coronavirus update at 11am. So, quite shortly.
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews will give a press conference alongside transport minister Jacinta Allan at 11.51am, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the West Gate bridge disaster.
On Shepparton, my colleague Matilda Boseley is keen to speak to people in the town who are specifically impacted by the potential outbreak.
That could include people who are lining up to get a test; people who have to self-isolate for 14 days because they were at one of the high-risk locations; and people with health issues or other vulnerabilities that makes them particularly at risk from Covid-19.
You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter at @MatildaBoseley
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