Australian death toll stands at 379; France removed from UK travel corridor; Greece and Croatia impose midnight curfew on bars and restaurants
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2.37am BST
To New Zealand, where Reuters reports that seven cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the past 24 hours.
Six of the seven new cases have been linked to the cluster responsible for all the previous community cases, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told a media briefing in Wellington.
2.35am BST
Andrews is asked about this exclusive Guardian Australia report on horrific footage of a 95-year-old woman in a Melbourne aged care facility struck by Covid-19, showing ants crawling from a wound on her leg and the bandages around it crusted with blood.
He describes it as “shameful”. The footage “will be very distressing for everyone concerned”.
I think that footage relates to a particular facility which we have now taken over, so I would hope, I would hope that any of those issues would be dealt with quickly.
Hospital nurses have gone and taken over in a number of these situations and I think they have taken over for good reasons. It does not serve any purpose for me from this podium to kind of be a commentator on that system, I think the most important thing is to focus on the residents and their families and get the other side of this and provide the care and dignity that every single senior Victorian is fundamentally entitled to.
