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Overwhelmed and ill-equipped medical personnel in Egypt are being threatened for reporting poor working conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with increasing numbers being detained by a national security agency.

Doctors reported the threats delivered through WhatsApp, official letters or in person. They said hospital managers and government officials told them that not attending shifts, posting on social media or voicing objections would lead to complaints to the National Security Agency, Egypt’s main internal security agency, which according to Human rights groups have arrested multiple health workers:

A Guardian Australia analysis of Victorian coronavirus cases shows that infections have increased in areas outside of the blocked postal codes, and that all significant growth areas are now contained within the wider Melbourne blockade.

Using data aggregated daily from the Victoria Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) dashboard here, we calculate the number of new cases per day for each area of ​​local government in Victoria.

We then checked to see if the cases had increased or decreased during the past two weeks for each area that reported more than five cases during that period.

As of this writing, a map of the results shows that there has been significant growth in regions adjacent to previously blocked ZIP codes, with the largest increase in the Wyndham council area. Wyndham is where Al Taqwa University is located, the site of what is currently the second largest group of cases in Victoria.

There have also been an increasing number of cases in the Melton and Darebin council areas.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the response to a second wave of Covid-19 infections may not be shutting down the country to try to eliminate the virus, and has moved to reassure people that his government will not withdraw. income support “for the needy”.

Morrison said closures were necessary in Victoria given the significant increase in infections in the state, but “his protection against the virus is not closing things all the time.”

“You have to do that sometimes, as is Victoria’s case,” he said. She said trying to remove the virus was not the “right strategy” for Australia.

“Not only is the entire country closed because that is not sustainable. I have heard that argument. You could potentially double unemployment, and even worse. ”

Morrison said elimination was impossible to achieve “unless we do not allow any cargo, medical supplies to Australia, or exports to Australia, or the like, there is always

In Australia, a group of coronavirus cases in a pub called the Crossroads Hotel in the state of New South Wales has been linked to a man in Melbourne, Victoria, who attended a party at the workplace.

NSW Health contact researcher Jennie Musto explained the genomic link between Victoria and the NSW outbreak, as a man traveling from Melbourne to Sydney in late June.

A Melbourne man walked into a workplace in Sydney, and then there’s some streaming inside that workplace, and then they all went to a party that night on July 3, at the Crossroads Hotel. So this is where it all started.

She said she traveled June 30 and works in the transportation industry.

Musto said this case was related to six colleagues who were diagnosed.

NSW Health Minister Dr. Kerry Chant has added more information on the possible spread of current NSW outbreaks:

While we have focused a lot on Crossroads, a group of hotels, it is very important that we do not lose sight of the fact that Covid could have been introduced to other parts of Sydney, and it is very possible that we have had the virus transmission continues.