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1.28am BST
And that’s it for announcements from the Premier. He now hands over to the health minister, Martin Foley.
He gives a bit more detail about the 11th-day testing requirement.
So, as we all know, if you are identified as a close contact for a positive case, you are required to go straight home and to isolate and quarantine for the required period of time, 14 days. And at the 11th day, overwhelmingly, we’ve seen people cooperate in the testing that is part of that system. And I want to thank all of those people who have been part of that system. As of today, we will be making sure that the obligation is pretty clear. That if you are identified as a close contact, that you would be asked to test at day 11, and should you choose not to test at day 11, you will be required to continue your quarantining for a further ten days.That’s the period of which we can be absolutely sure that the incubation period has seen its way off. I stress that that is a very, very small number of people.
1.25am BST
Victorian Premier has announced that he will be handing his phone records to the Board of Inquiry:
One final matter, as I indicated previously and consistent with the fact that I established the Independent Board of Inquiry into Quarantine Matters andOther Matters, the board have sought additional information from me and my senior staff, text message, telephone records, as I had indicated, as I had committed.
All of that detail will be handed to the board. It will be done as soon as possible. I can’t give you an exact timeline because Telstra and others have to provide us with those details but that will be provided, just as they’ve asked, just as I indicated we would, if such a request was made. All of us want answers. All of us are entitled to answers. There’s an independent process. I can only speak for me and my senior staff, including media staff. They will all be handing over the relevant details. I can’t speak for any other requests that the board has made of anybody else. If they have, then the Board of Inquiry would be best placed to answer any questions that you have.
Continue reading…Trump makes first public appearance; Europe records 100,000 daily cases for first time; Canada at ‘tipping point’. Follow latest updatesTrump returns to public events with ‘law and order’ speech at White HouseMake masks compulsory in UK workplaces, say doctorsSpain declares emergency in Madrid as Berlin emerges as hotspotUK workers to get two-thirds of wages if firms told to shutSee all our coronavirus coverage 1.28am BSTAnd that’s it for announcements from the Premier. He now hands over to the health minister, Martin Foley. He gives a bit more detail about the 11th-day testing requirement. So, as we all know, if you are identified as a close contact for a positive case, you are required to go straight home and to isolate and quarantine for the required period of time, 14 days. And at the 11th day, overwhelmingly, we’ve seen people cooperate in the testing that is part of that system. And I want to thank all of those people who have been part of that system. As of today, we will be making sure that the obligation is pretty clear. That if you are identified as a close contact, that you would be asked to test at day 11, and should you choose not to test at day 11, you will be required to continue your quarantining for a further ten days.That’s the period of which we can be absolutely sure that the incubation period has seen its way off. I stress that that is a very, very small number of people. 1.25am BSTVictorian Premier has announced that he will be handing his phone records to the Board of Inquiry: One final matter, as I indicated previously and consistent with the fact that I established the Independent Board of Inquiry into Quarantine Matters andOther Matters, the board have sought additional information from me and my senior staff, text message, telephone records, as I had indicated, as I had committed. All of that detail will be handed to the board. It will be done as soon as possible. I can’t give you an exact timeline because Telstra and others have to provide us with those details but that will be provided, just as they’ve asked, just as I indicated we would, if such a request was made. All of us want answers. All of us are entitled to answers. There’s an independent process. I can only speak for me and my senior staff, including media staff. They will all be handing over the relevant details. I can’t speak for any other requests that the board has made of anybody else. If they have, then the Board of Inquiry would be best placed to answer any questions that you have. Continue reading…