crikey.com.au/2021/09/10/cha… 1. NSW’s reopening plan: Pubs, gyms, hairdressers, nail salons, & retail will reopen to the vaccinated, while up to five people can gather indoors, and trips to regional NSW will be allowed. For all the details, check out this handy explainer
2. from Guardian Australia.
But several communities in rural NSW are reeling amid Delta crises. Yesterday a man in his 60s became the 3rd Indigenous person to die after contracting COVID-19 in western NSW. He was not vaccinated, NSW’s deputy CHO Marianne Gale confirmed.
But several communities in rural NSW are reeling amid Delta crises. Yesterday a man in his 60s became the 3rd Indigenous person to die after contracting COVID-19 in western NSW. He was not vaccinated, NSW’s deputy CHO Marianne Gale confirmed.
3. It comes as almost a 33% of Indigenous people in far north-west town Enngonia are now infected, Guardian Australia reports, with frontline health workers describing the public health response as “chaotic”. The disease has claimed the life of one Indigenous woman
4. in the community, aged in her 70s. Bourke Aboriginal Health Service’s Claire Williams said health services were at breaking point, & that it’s “not very clear who’s really in charge”. Meanwhile, in mostly Indigenous town Wilcannia, 13% of the town’s population, 102 people
5. are infected. The crisis is exacerbated by overcrowded housing making isolating impossible — so a fleet of 30 motor homes arrived in Wilcannia on the WE. But Broken Hill’s Mayor Darriea Turley says NSW’s far west needs more government support. @WgarNews @NITVRadio
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