COVID-19 update: NSW deploys army, Queensland extends its lockdown

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 2 August 2021.

Australian Defence Force personnel and NSW police are seen being deployed from Fairfield Police Station in Sydney, Monday, August 2, 2021. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

NSW still has a large number of infectious people in community.
Majority of new cases in Queensland are children.
Victoria records two new cases.
South Australia eases some COVID-19 restrictions.

New South Wales

NSW has recorded 207 new locally acquired cases, with at least 50 in the community while infectious. A man in his nineties who had received one dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine died in Liverpool Hospital.

Up to 300 Australian Defence Force personnel are assisting NSW Police to "deliver food parcels, conduct welfare door-knocks and go through compliance checks" in

eight local government areas

. The army is not armed.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian urges people to get vaccinated. Find here the

list of vaccination clinics

Queensland

Queensland has recorded 13 new locally acquired cases with the majority being children under 10 years old. All cases are linked to the existing cluster, and the total of active cases is 31.

Treasurer Cameron Dick announces

$260 million package to support Queensland businesses

, particularly small and medium sized enterprises.

The lockdown, now extended until Sunday 8^th of August, is in place in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Logan, Moreton Bay, Noosa, Redland, Scenic Rim, Somerset and the Sunshine Coast.

Find here the

list of exposure sites

Last 24 hours around Australia

Victoria has recorded two new locally acquired cases linked to existing outbreaks and in quarantine while infectious.
In South Australia mandatory masks remain while sports can return for competition with some conditions with regards to the number of spectators.

How does the 'singles social bubble' for NSW residents work?

Quarantine, travel, testing clinics and pandemic disaster payment

Quarantine and testing requirements are managed and enforced by state and territory governments:

NSW

and

VIC

and

ACT

and

and

QLD

and

and

TAS

and

and

If you want to travel overseas, you may be able to apply online for an exemption.

Click here

for more information about the conditions to leave Australia. There are temporary measures for international flights that are regularly reviewed by the government and updated on the

Smart Traveller

website.