![]() ![]() This all seems a little quaint: 50 people in South Australia are undertaking a pilot of an app that will allow them to show their vaccination status and check in to businesses. The Australian Border Force has been contacted for comment. He said he had been tested three or four times in the two weeks after he was moved to the hotel from Sydney’s Villawood detention centre, but that testing was not being carried out regularly. Salah said that he and many other detainees were yet to be vaccinated. She said crowded conditions, hygiene issues, a lack of information, guards working multiple sites and low vaccination numbers were all factors driving the ASRC’s “deep concerns there could be an outbreak in a detention facility”. “They’re scared and they’ve been scared for 18 months,” Favero said. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre director of advocacy and campaigns, Jana Favero, told national newswire AAP it was a situation the centre had feared, and despite attempts by detainees to socially distance and remain safe “it’s impossible in the conditions they’re in”. we sit together, eat together, we really don’t know what to do.” He’s currently in the Park hotel in Melbourne where he says detainees found out today that three people had tested positive and others were also showing symptoms. Mustafa Salah, 23, has spent the better part of eight years inside Australian detention facilities offshore and within its borders. Victoria has now administered over five million COVID-19 vaccine doses, with 89 per cent of the population having had one dose of the vaccine and 65.5 per cent now fully vaccinated.Īndrews thanked the community for their efforts in coming forward to get vaccinated, which he said have allowed the government to ease Melbourne’s lockdown restrictions.Here is more from AAP on the news we mentioned earlier about Medevac detainees in Melbourne contracting Covid:Īn asylum seeker inside a Melbourne hotel being used as an “alternative place of detention” by Australian Border Force says detainees are frustrated and scared after three of them tested positive for Covid. “So there is every reason - every reason - to get vaccinated like so many Victorians already have.” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced an early easing of Victoria's lockdown restrictions. ![]() Some of whom are gravely unwell, gasping for air, they are not vaccinated, not fully vaccinated, almost all of them,” he said. “They are not numbers, they are people that are very, very unwell. Credit: AAPĪndrews said it was important to note that 90 per cent of those in hospital, and 97 per cent of those in intensive care, were not fully vaccinated. Victoria is forecast to reach its 70 per cent vaccination milestone as early as Thursday. “Vaccination rates are increasing significantly there (City of Casey) but from a low base, that is why that vulnerability is reflected in the numbers,” he said. Outdoor venues will increase from 20 to 100 vaccinated people per venue.Indoor settings, including restaurants, cafes and gyms, will allow up to 30 fully vaccinated people per venue. ![]() In regional Victoria, the following easing of restrictions have been announced:
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