Bye bye freedom and hello lockdown 😩😓😭😢Īccording to multiple insider sources that spoke with outlets such as CP24 and CTV News Toronto, Premier Doug Ford will be announcing new restrictions during his press conference at 3:30 p.m. That’s why from October 8, all of Victoria’s state-run vaccination centres will support people with disabilities to get vaccinated any time without a booking.In the midst of Ontario's rapidly climbing COVID-19 case counts, the province has reached a point that we were promised we'd never be at again: facing the return of earlier lockdown restrictions.Īs of the last few days, the plan to ease proof-of-vaccination rules next month is no longer on the table, capacity limits at entertainment venues that host 1,000 guests or more have been cut in half, new travel rules are in effect and the booster shot rollout has been accelerated to try and mitigate community spread of the Omicron variant.Īnd now, even more public health measures are apparently on the way, as per the guidance of the COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, which released new modelling projections and consequent recommendations for further action on Thursday.ģ100+ cases confirmed for Ontario today. Of the NDIS participants in Victoria living in disability residential accommodation, more than 80% have received a first dose at least.īut vaccination for Victorians living with a disability are still lower than the general population, as I indicated a minute ago, at 84.4%.

So we’re doing slightly better, but it’s simply not good enough. Ten dedicated disability pop-up vaccine clinics will be established in areas of concern, and Victoria’s disability liaison service will gain 16 extra officers:Īs of September 30, more than 71% of Victorian NDIS participants aged 16 and over had received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine compared to 67% of the national average. The Victorian minister for disability, ageing and carers Luke Donnellan is up, announcing a $5m funding package to boost vaccination rates among people living with a disability. 01.27 Victoria to inject $5m to lift vaccine rates among NDIS participants And being safe, being safe where I could visit my loved ones and my friends. After doing it, I was so relieved that I was now in a better position to live a longer life and not worrying about being found dead in my apartment. Once I’d done one, the next one was easy. From the moment I arrived, the people knew that my anxiety was really high and what they did was took me through quickly and then actually made sure that I had two nurses with me and were with me through the whole experience. the blitz for disability workers, I saw that as an opportunity to make a mark. It scared the daylights out of me and was very daunting. And what that did was it raised my anxiety around not having a will, so I actually committed to doing a will for the first time in my life. Living alone in affordable housing, worrying about being 61-plus, fear of my loved ones and my friends finding me dying to Covid. She says when Covid hit, it was her “worst nightmare”: We will see increased cases.ĭisability and multicultural community advocate Margherita has just spoken. But I do think – and this is part of us opening up and getting back some of those activities that we’ve all missed so much – that will come with increased cases. If there’s concerns about the nature of the cases, if the health services are particularly impacted, certainly if significant school exposures occur, that all goes into the decision making around whether a local government area meets the criteria for going into lockdown. So the way that we can make lockdowns less and less likely – and ultimately unnecessary – is by continuing that journey Victorians are doing so amazingly and getting vaccinated. We are all moving down that roadmap, which is defined by our underlying vaccination status in the community. He says health authorities will have a “more nuanced” approach than they may have had previously to locking down regional areas, and this is linked to vaccination rates:

Ben Cowie is asked whether Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, which only recently emerged from lockdown, may need to return in light of today’s case numbers.

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