Victoria has officially shut its border to New South Wales from midnight to stop the spread of Covid-19, after Victoria recorded 10 new local cases. There were also two new …
Published January 2, 2021
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Victoria recorded ten new locally acquired cases of coronavirus on Friday, all part of a growing cluster linked to a Thai restaurant in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Black Rock.
Health Minister
Martin Foley today told reporters that all the new infections are linked to the Smile Buffalo Thai restaurant, in what has become known as the “Mentone-Mitcham cluster”.
Anyone who has been in Victoria on or since December 21 has been urged to get a COVID test immediately and then quarantine after contacts of Victorian cases were found in Queensland.
Australians are expected to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from mid to late February, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. Mr Morrison said high-priority groups, including healthcare and quarantine workers among others, would receive the treatment first. He hoped the initial phase would start with about 80,000 inoculations a week. However, Mr Morrison said this timeline with depend on a number of factors including final approval from the Therapeutic Good Administation, and delivery of the vaccine from the supplier. He said the Pfizer vaccine would only be delivered and released once TGA approval was given, which he anticipated would occur by the end of January.