COVID-19 Update: Being a migrant increases risk of dying from COVID-19 in Australia

• The figures show the mortality rate for people born in the Middle East was more than ten times that of people born in Australia.
• After two years of restricted inbound travel, Australia will reopen to overseas tourists from next week, but Australia’s biggest source of tourism, China, will be missing.
• A further 38 people have died with COVID-19 in Australia.
• In New South Wales, singing and dancing will be allowed across most venues, the two-metre density limit for indoor venues has been scrapped, and QR check-ins are now only required for nightclubs and music festivals with more than 1,000 patrons.
• The requirement to wear face masks will also cease in most settings next Friday, in NSW.
• In Victoria, from 6pm on Friday, hospitality and entertainment venues density quotas will be scrapped, along with QR code check-in requirements for retail, schools and workplaces.
• QR check-ins will still be required in pubs, bars, restaurants and entertainment premises to help ensure those attending are double-vaccinated in Victoria.
• In the ACT, density limits across all businesses will be removed from 6pm on Friday, while dancing is also allowed once again.
• Bans on eating or drinking at hospitality venues while standing has also been removed, while the government has indicated a return to the workplace can take place for employees where possible, in the ACT.
• Hospital visiting hours have been reduced to just two hours twice a day across all public hospitals in Perth in response to growing COVID-19 cases in WA.
• South Australia's public health chief says dancing in public settings will stay all but banned for the time being, despite other states relaxing similar restrictions in recent days. 

COVID-19 Australian Stats

New South Wales reported 1,381 patients hospitalised with 92 in intensive care. There were 15 deaths, and 9,243 new cases of COVID-19.

In Victoria, 451 people are in hospital with 64 in ICU and 16 on ventilators. There were 14 deaths and 6,935 new infections.

In Queensland, there were 5,795 new COVID-19 cases and 9 deaths. There are 408 patients with COVID-19 in hospital, with a total number of 34 patients in intensive care.

Tasmania has recorded no deaths with 623 new COVID-19 cases. 11 people are in hospital with COVID-19, two of them in ICU.

In the ACT 45 people are now in hospital with COVID-19, with 2 patients in intensive care. No death has been reported with 561 new cases.

In South Australia 1,479 new cases and no death has been recorded. 177 patients positive to COVID-19 are now in the state's hospitals, 13 of them in ICU.

For measures currently in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in your language, visit here.

A number of states have set up RAT registration forms

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There are changes to the COVID-19 Disaster Payment once states reach 70 and 80 per cent fully vaccinated:  Getting help during Covid-19 from Services Australia in language

• News and information over 60 languages at sbs.com.au/coronavirus
• Relevant guidelines for your state or territory: NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, ACT, Tasmania.  
• Information about the COVID-19 vaccine in your language.

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