Australia Covid live news update: NSW outlines reopening plan as state records 787 cases, 12 deaths; Victoria 705 cases, one death

ACT eases some restrictions after recording 19 cases, one death; Gladys Berejiklian announces 11 October as day NSW restrictions ease after state records 787 cases and 12 deaths; Victoria records one death and 705 cases; no new cases in Qld; NT continues with reopening plans; 12 new cases in NZ. Follow all the day’s news

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That is a 25% jump in three weeks, you love to see it:

City of Hume, where much of Melbourne’s Muslim community lives, the first-dose vaccination rates have gone from 48% on the 6th of September to 73% today! Wow great effort.

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The ACT also recorded its first Covid-19 death for more than a year.

The first death of a Canberran with COVID-19 in over a year. The palliative care patient was in his 90s. He was in the Calvary Haydon facility, where the disease has spread over the past week. https://t.co/cfiXEhFwoT pic.twitter.com/4kpHTCrAg2

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Source: The Guardian