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NSW has become the first state with 80 per cent of its eligible adult population fully inoculated against COVID-19.
October, 2021
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16 October
Teenage girl with COVID-19 dies in Victoria | Coronavirus 9News Latest News 2021
A 15-year-old girl with COVID-19, and a number of health conditions, has died in Victoria as the state recorded 1,993 local coronavirus cases.
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16 October
Businesses take to social media to confirm COVID-19 exposure
PRATTY'S Patch has been identified as a tier two exposure site. In a social media post on Saturday, the team confirmed that the Department of Health had been in contact. "Unfortunately we have just been notified that we have been listed as a tier 2 exposure site on Saturday,
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16 October
The SES is investigating how many volunteers have had their COVID-19 vaccination
ALMOST 100 per cent of volunteers at Warrnambool's Essential volunteer workers fall into the state government's authorised worker vaccine mandate. Thrift Shop manager Leanne Atkinson said 97 per cent of volunteers at the store had been vaccinated with three people due to get their jabs shortly.
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16 October
Some COVID-19 restrictions will ease on Monday as NSW reaches 80 per cent fully vaccinated — what you need to know
NSW reaches another milestone in the COVID-19 roadmap, with 80 per cent of the population aged over 16 now double-vaxed. Here's what you can do from Monday now that restrictions have further eased.
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16 October
Vic lockdown rules ludicrous: Frydenberg
Federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg has described Victoria's current COVID-19 lockdown rules allowing for entry from NSW but enforcing confinement in Melbourne as "ludicrous and unacceptable". The situation means somebody in Sydney can travel nearly one thousand kilometres to visit a pub in Lorne but residents of the Victorian capital can't …
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16 October
Bendigo Health 'concerned' about rising COVID-19 in regions
Bendigo Health has seven patients in the respiratory ward, four in ICU and 56 in their Hospital in the Home program.
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16 October
MORE freedoms coming as NSW achieves another major vaccine milestone
Eighty per cent of the population over 16 in New South Wales is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, triggering a further easing of restrictions on Monday. The milestone was achieved on Saturday, as fully vaccinated residents in the state enjoy their first weekend of freedom.
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16 October
ACT opens travel to regional NSW, reports 20 new COVID-19 cases
A relaxing of travel restrictions in the ACT has opened up a range of locations in NSW including Batemans Bay, Bega and Perisher Valley.
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16 October
COVID-19 close contacts not shut out of VCE exams
By SUNRAYSIA VCE students who become COVID-19 close contacts will still be able to sit their exams on site thanks to new safety measures. On Thursday it was announced that the public health team would make "important changes to