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Hi there! Here’s what you need to know this evening.
- Victoria plunged back into lockdown in response to new mystery COVID cases
- New South Wales adds Hunter and Upper Hunter regions to lockdown
- Australia has equalled its best-ever performance at an Olympics
Let’s get into it.
Victoria to enter sixth lockdown
ABC News: John Graham
)IN BRIEF: Eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the state today, with six of those from results received on Wednesday.
The lockdown will last for seven days and there will only be five reasons for leaving home: getting groceries and supplies, exercise, care or caregiving, authorised work or education that cannot be done from home and getting vaccinated.
Under the rules, shopping and exercise must be done within five kilometres of your home.
Who said what:
“I can’t tell you how disappointed I am to have to be here doing this again,” Premier Daniel Andrews said.
“But with so few in the community with one vaccination, let alone two, I have no choice but to accept advice, and we collectively [have] to make this important decision to keep Victorians safe.”
Newcastle, Hunter in snap lockdown as COVID cases grow
IN BRIEF: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has ordered the state’s Hunter and Upper Hunter regions into a snap lockdown from 5:00pm today, following confirmation that five students from three schools are among several new local COVID-19 cases.
The affected local government areas are Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Dungog, Singleton and Muswellbrook.
Ms Berejiklian said the lockdown was expected to continue until midnight on August 12.
Who said what:
“These community leaders and local leaders are being advised of this,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“That [lockdown] will commence at 5:00pm tonight and go until midnight next Thursday, so a week, similar to what occurred in Orange and hopefully, similar to what occurred in Orange, we’ll see that community have their restrictions or stay-at-home [orders] lifted at that time.”
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Queensland records 16 new local COVID-19 cases, 11 detected in ship off Gladstone coast
IN BRIEF: All the new cases are directly linked to the Delta outbreak which started at Indooroopilly State High School, in Brisbane’s inner-west.
Of the new cases, Deputy Premier Steven Miles said three were infectious in the community for one day and one was infectious for two days.
Who said what:
“Twelve were in quarantine throughout the entire infectious period, so the fact they are all linked and mostly were in quarantine is a positive development as well,” Mr Miles said.
NSW traveller tests positive for COVID-19 in hotel quarantine in Tasmania
A traveller from Sydney has tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Tasmania and being directed into hotel quarantine for failing to have a valid border pass, Premier Peter Gutwein has announced.
The 31-year-old man flew from Sydney to Melbourne on Monday, August 2, before boarding a connecting flight to Launceston.
The man was taken into hotel quarantine from Launceston Airport and was tested for coronavirus on Tuesday, August 3.
The Premier said “there was a high expectation it would be” the highly infectious delta variant of the virus.
But he stressed this was “not a case of community transmission“.
In good news … Australia won two gold medals within minutes of each other
Jean van der Westhuyzen and Thomas Green win in the men’s K2 1000 took Australia to 16 gold medals, equal to the tally in Sydney 2000.
Getty Images: Laurence Griffiths
)It’s the first time Australia has won OIympic gold in the event in its 85-year history.
Then 18-year-old Keegan Palmer’s stunning win in the men’s skateboarding park final took us to 17 gold medals.
The only time that has ever been matched was in Athens in 2004.
Palmer and 17-year-old Australian Kieran Woolley, who finished fifth, were the two youngest competitors in the men’s park final.
AP Photo/Ben Curtis
)Melissa Wu wins bronze in 10m platform
Sportsfile via Getty Images: Ramsey Cardy
)IN BRIEF: Veteran Olympian (at 29 years old) Melissa Wu has won her first individual medal at a Games with bronze in the women’s 10-metre platform.
Tokyo is Wu’s fourth Olympic Games. She won a silver in Beijing in the women’s 10m synchronised platform.
Australia into women’s beach volleyball gold-medal game
Reuters: Pilar Olivares
)IN BRIEF: Australia is into the women’s beach volleyball gold-medal game after overwhelming Latvia in straight sets in the semi-final.
The Australian pairing of Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy swept aside their European opponents Tina Graudina and Anastasija Kravcenoka 23-21 and 21-13 in just 43 minutes to guarantee a medal in the event.
They play the United States tomorrow in the final to determine who takes home gold and silver.
Boomers miss out on gold medal in semi-final against Team USA
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
)IN BRIEF: The Boomers have lost their Olympic semi-final match 97-78 to the USA, ending their hopes of a gold medal.
The second semi-final between France and Slovenia will be played tonight. The US will play the winner for gold, while the Boomers will face the loser for a bronze medal.
Here’s what’s coming up tonight at the Olympics:
- The Kookaburras go for gold against Belgium at 8:00pm AEST.
- Ash Moloney and Cedric Dubler continue in the decathlon — javelin from 8:15pm and 1,500m from 10:40pm AEST.
- The women’s 4x400m relay team go at 8:25pm AEST.
- Watch Oliver Hoare and Stewart McSweyn in the 1500m semi-finals from 9:00pm AEST.
- In track cycling, Sam Welsford’s elimination race is at 6:07pm AEST.
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