Australia Covid live news update: Morrison acknowledges vaccine rollout problems; NSW records 110 new local cases, South Australia 12 and Victoria 22
by Lisa Cox (now) and Michael McGowan and Matilda Bos from on (#5MDPS)
PM's office says CMO prefers only vaccinated reporters attend today's press conference; New SA cases linked to potential super-spreader events; NSW records 110 local cases; Victoria records 22 local cases overnight
- Coalition pressured to expand disaster payments as 1 million locked down Australians excluded
- Berejiklian confident new restrictions will lower NSW numbers as 110 new cases recorded
- Victoria cases reach 10-month high, with 22 new local infections
- Restrictions: NSW; Vic; Qld; WA, NT and SA
- Hotspots: NSW map; Vic list; Qld; WA
- Vaccine rollout tracker
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And that's all for the evening. Here are today's main events:
9.46am BST
The house of former federal Labor MP Craig Thomson has been raided as part of a wide-ranging federal police investigation into alleged fraud.
Thomson's house in Wamberal on the NSW central coast was raided on Wednesday.
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