Prime minister Scott Morrison to meet with premiers on Friday to discuss Covid response
- Full list of Victorian Covid public exposure sites
- Melbourne and regional Victoria lockdown rules explained
Victoria’s Covid commander, Jeroen Weimar has spoken to Melbourne radio 3AW and said there are more positive cases to be announced today (we are still waiting on the official confirmation).
Victoria's COVID-19 testing commander Jeroen Weimar has told 3AW Breakfast "there will be a number of positive cases today".
"One of my pleas, again, is for people to keep an eye on those exposure sites."
Here was Simon Birmingham explaining that on the ABC this morning:
As always, with payments that we make through the federal system, you want to make sure that those who reclaiming them are eligible for them.
There will be the potential for checks to ensure that people who are out there working in any event knowing that many parts of the economy do continue still to function aren’t also just going and making these claims.
They acted within the laws as established at the time. We have to look to March of last year when we developed the jobkeeper program at that stage and at that point it was about expected downturns in relevance to trade and the potential for lockdowns...
...The commonwealth law was passed by the parliament. We are not going to go back and chain the rule. Not only every big business, but every small business, many sole traders, small businesses claimed jobkeeper as well and ultimately it was there to provide confidence at a time of enormous uncertainty when we were looking at a nationwide lockdown to keep people employed. It worked. It worked overwhelmingly in terms of putting Australia in a position where we now have more people employed than was the case pre-pandemic.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/jun/04/australia-covid-melbourne-lockdown-morrison-albanese-victoria-quarantine
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