Covid Australia live news update: NSW reports 163 new coronavirus cases, Victoria 12 and South Australia one

Brad Hazzard urges states to reconsider refusal of additional Pfizer doses for NSW. Follow live‘Imprisoned’: south-west Sydney on harsher lockdown and the fight to stop CovidFacebook forced to limit misinformation spread via WhatsApp amid Sydney lockdownNSW restrictions;NSW hotspots;border restrictionsVaccine rollout tracker;get our free news app;get our morning email briefing3.04amBSTOf the 12 new cases today, five are linked to the AAMI Park outbreak, one is a social contact of one case, and four are household contacts.A further three are linked to Ms Frankie ’s, one being a patron, and two household contacts of a staff member.2.57amBSTNow turning to the Victorian press conference, health ministerMartin Foley says it there was an “encouraging” trend down in case numbers, while not a huge drop, most were in quarantine for their entire infectious period:Overall, we are pleased to see an encouraging trend down in case numbers and certainly not an increase. Not a huge trend down but, in terms of the direction and particularly the issues that the chief health officer will go into, a reassuring trend towards cases overwhelmingly being in quarantine. Being in-home isolation for the entirety of their infectious period.Continue reading...
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