Health News at Your Fingertips

In NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is talking about labour shortages this morning.

“We’ve lost around 250,000 jobs, it would have been 100,000 more but for the support through the job saver programme.

“And look through last year, we lost around 300,000 jobs and recovered every single one of them.”

SA Health is also having a vaccine blitz this weekend – the Super Walk-In Weekend.

Grace is also spruiking the state’s pop-up vaccination clinics, which are open in schools today.

“Today is super Saturday,” Grace said.

“We need you to come out and get vaccinated today. Schools are open right across the state, 116 of those. We also had four of these schools open for two hours yesterday afternoon.

“In a couple of hours, we had 112 come through to get vaccinated. It’s wonderful to see. I believe we are up to about 18,660 come out to get vaccinated yesterday.”

Education minister Grace Grace declares it is a “double doughnut day” for the state.

“We have zero new cases in the community, and zero cases detected in hotel quarantine,” she said.

“Currently, that leaves us with 26 active cases and 2,082 total cases here in Queensland. We’re up to 74.1% single-dose vaccination.

“And we’re nearly at the 60% double dose, with 59.36% of the population,16 and over, double vaxxed.”

In good news, Queensland has recorded no new cases in the community.

And we are expecting to hear from Queensland authorities within moments about the Covid situation in the state.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to go to space? Well, my colleague Sam Lock spoke to astronaut Chris Boshuizen this week to find out everything about it.

Boshuizen became the third Australian citizen to go to space when he hopped on board the recent Blue Origin flight.

It’s a great read for your Saturday morning.

Obeid has left his family home in Hunters Hill to start his sentence of three years and ten months.

Obeid was found guilty of conspiring over a coal licence for his family farm in the Bylong Valley.

And in Victoria, the numbers are high but not as high as we’ve seen recently.

We’ve got 1,750 local cases and there have been nine deaths.

There are 770 people in hospital and of those 144 are in ICU, and 90 people are on a ventilator.

The state continues to come out for vaccines – and we love to see it.

On Friday 39,126 people were vaccinated at state hubs, that’s on top of people who went to GPs, and more than 72,000 test results were returned.

Victoria now has 23,164 active cases.

More than 72 per cent of the population have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine.