Australia information reside: NSW information 22,577 new Covid circumstances and 4 deaths as Victoria stories 7,442 circumstances and 9 deaths

A person has allegedly pushed a automobile via a tent at a campground in Tasmania within the early hours of New Yr’s Day, injuring two adults and three youngsters, AAP stories:

They had been taken to the Northwest Regional Hospital with accidents starting from minor lacerations to suspected inside accidents.

The incident occurred about 2am on Saturday on the West Kentish Highway Campgrounds within the state’s northwest.

A 27-year-old man is in police custody and investigations are ongoing.

NSW Well being has republished its each day Covid figures, amending the submit to 4 deaths as an alternative of 5 as earlier reported.

A short intermission from Covid gloom: that is the perfect information I’ve seen all 12 months.

(Sure, I do know he technically tweeted this final 12 months, however enable me this skerrick of pleasure, will you?)

Right here’s Prof Adrian Esterman, an epidemiologist and biostatistician on the College of SA, with some evaluation on the NSW and Victorian Covid figures. Price noting that the Reff – the efficient copy quantity – has risen in each states.

There are a number of searches presently underway for folks feared drowned in South Australia and NSW.

Per AAP, SA emergency providers are trying to find a teenage woman who fell off a houseboat into the Murray River south of Swan Attain on New Yr’s Eve. Alarm was raised at 9.15pm after she didn’t resurface after her fall.

A search can be below manner for 2 males who went lacking after taking a employed pedal boat at about 2am out on Lake Bonney in SA’s Riverland area.

SA Police mentioned the empty boat was discovered along with an Esky believed to belong to the lads. A search of the lake and foreshore was undertaken by police and SES via the night time.

In NSW, emergency service crews together with police divers have resumed a seek for a lacking teen feared drowned within the Shoalhaven River. AAP stories:

Two teenage boys went swimming within the river close to Burrier on New Yr’s Eve at 6:30pm, however one boy discovered himself in problem, police mentioned.

The boys, aged 15 and 16, tried to get again to shore however the 15-year-old disappeared below the water.

Locals started looking out earlier than emergency providers arrived with boats and a Toll rescue helicopter.

Police divers had been on scene from 10:50pm till 1:30am and resumed on Saturday morning.

Sadly, the take a look at positivity price retains rising. From right now’s figures, nearly one in 5 checks in NSW are coming again constructive.

The determine in Victoria is 11.81%.

NSW has recorded new 22,577 circumstances and 5 deaths within the final 24 hours. There at the moment are 901 folks in hospital within the state, and 79 in ICU.

Completely satisfied new 12 months! It’s Donna Lu right here, bringing you the primary information weblog of the 12 months. Hope you’re feeling vivid eyed and bushy tailed this morning, or enjoying the celebrations elsewhere on the planet.

Police mentioned they had been “typically happy” with revellers’ behaviour on New Yr’s Eve. NSW Police arrested 128 folks state-wide, together with 10 in Sydney’s CBD, whereas 45 move-on instructions had been issued. Assistant commissioner Peter Thurtell thanked “members of the neighborhood who made their plans Covid-safe and celebrated the start of 2022 responsibly, in what we hope is a greater 12 months for everybody.”

New 12 months, similar pandemic, sadly: New South Wales hospitals are resorting to flying nurses in from abroad, with workers being begged to take additional shifts. The state recorded 21,151 new Covid circumstances and 6 deaths yesterday, with a leaked memo from main hospital warned it “can’t appear to maintain up with the exposures and constructive workers”.

Inside a fortnight or so, Australia has gone from having one of many lowest charges of recent Covid circumstances on the planet to being within the top 20 of nations with a inhabitants over 500,000. If NSW had been a rustic, it will be sitting within the high 10. It is crucial, nonetheless, to notice that international locations with higher testing programs are inherently prone to produce larger figures.

From right now, interstate travellers to Queensland will now be allowed to return a negative rapid antigen test as an alternative of a PCR take a look at earlier than journey. Queensland recorded 3,118 new circumstances yesterday, with criticisms the brand new necessities are “pointless” in states with massive outbreaks.

Talking of testing, Victorian and NSW governments are scrambling to organise the distribution of speedy antigen checks to vulnerable people amid a nationwide scarcity.