Australia Covid live news update: Victoria lockdown eases after 10 new cases; NSW records 172 local cases as regional shutdowns lifted
SA to exit lockdown at midnight; NSW records 172 local Covid-19 cases overnight; Victoria lockdown to ease from midnight after state records 10 cases; Queensland records no new cases overnight. Follow all the day’s news
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The Australian is reporting that the NSW government will set up a “singles bubble” during the continuing lockdown. Details are scant at the moment.
Breaking: The NSW Government will move to implement a COVID-safe singles bubble for Greater Sydney residents. Crisis cabinet decided on the measure this afternoon. Pushed quite hard by @VictorDominello – more on this at @australian
Sydney ambulance officers have told 7NEWS that they’re being turned away from RPA Hospital. The doors have been closed at the hospital because of an emerging COVID-19 situation. https://t.co/WMnGxiodHR #Coronavirus #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/xwrxEth0Jd
Meanwhile, Crown Resorts decided that shortly after 6pm would be a great time to tell the stock exchange that it has paid the Victorian government $61m after underpaying casino tax on its Melbourne money pit.
As the Victorian royal commission into the troubled gambling empire revealed, Crown has for years been incorrectly deducting things like bonuses it gave to regular patrons from its calculation of its gross profit from gamblers. This artificially reduced the amount of tax it paid Victoria, which was calculated based on the gross gambling profit number.
