Greece becomes latest EU nation to limit vaccine; Israel, Lebanon ease lockdowns; all contacts of Melbourne hotel quarantine worker, who contracted UK strain and put Australian Open at risk, test negative. Follow live
12.03am GMT
Health authorities in Victoria, Australia trying to prevent a coronavirus outbreak have said the next 48 hours will be critical, as the government reveals some changes to the way the state runs hotel quarantine.
The state has the added pressure of hosting an international tennis tournament, with the Australian Open due to start on Monday.
This is encouraging, but there will be more results needed over the next few days. The next 48 hours will be critical in making sure that we’re in a position to get on top of this.
All these changes are about acknowledging this is a changing virus. It’s changing, it’s mutating and it’s showing us new things.
So, a zero day, absolutely encouraging. But lots of close contacts, lots of exposure sites. And we really need to see that 14-day period play out before we can be much more reassured about no further cases occurring.
11.29pm GMT
Another day of zero cases of community transmission of coronavirus for Queensland. One case has been detected of a person currently in hotel quarantine.
Saturday 6 February – coronavirus cases in Queensland:
• 0 new locally acquired cases
• 1 overseas acquired case
• 5 active cases
• 1,311 total cases
• 1,803,657 tests conducted
Sadly, six Queenslanders with COVID-19 have died. 1,294 patients have recovered.#covid19 pic.twitter.com/OlEFIuDQYR
Continue reading…Greece becomes latest EU nation to limit vaccine; Israel, Lebanon ease lockdowns; all contacts of Melbourne hotel quarantine worker, who contracted UK strain and put Australian Open at risk, test negative. Follow live 12.03am GMTHealth authorities in Victoria, Australia trying to prevent a coronavirus outbreak have said the next 48 hours will be critical, as the government reveals some changes to the way the state runs hotel quarantine.The state has the added pressure of hosting an international tennis tournament, with the Australian Open due to start on Monday. This is encouraging, but there will be more results needed over the next few days. The next 48 hours will be critical in making sure that we’re in a position to get on top of this. All these changes are about acknowledging this is a changing virus. It’s changing, it’s mutating and it’s showing us new things.So, a zero day, absolutely encouraging. But lots of close contacts, lots of exposure sites. And we really need to see that 14-day period play out before we can be much more reassured about no further cases occurring. 11.29pm GMTAnother day of zero cases of community transmission of coronavirus for Queensland. One case has been detected of a person currently in hotel quarantine.Saturday 6 February – coronavirus cases in Queensland:• 0 new locally acquired cases• 1 overseas acquired case• 5 active cases• 1,311 total cases• 1,803,657 tests conductedSadly, six Queenslanders with COVID-19 have died. 1,294 patients have recovered.#covid19 pic.twitter.com/OlEFIuDQYR Continue reading…