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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her team are providing an update on the state’s road map out of lockdown.

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Meanwhile, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is due to provide a coronavirus update from 11.15am AEST.

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Thirty-three per cent of Victorians aged between 12 and 15 have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Acting Chief Health Officer Ben Cowie.

“This is a really important demographic and will go a long way to assisting us [with] the safe reopening of our schools as heralded in the road map,” he said during Monday’s COVID-19 update.

Premier Daniel Andrews earlier said that 23 per cent of Monday’s new COVID-19 cases were people in their 20s.

As we reported earlier, people who have not been vaccinated will live under the same restrictions as people who have from December 1.

It is at this stage of the road map that venues such as nightclubs can reopen, indoor venues move to a two-square-metre capacity rule and caps on household visitors are removed.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been asked what incentive there is for people who haven’t been vaccinated to do so, given they will be able to live the same life as everyone else by the end of the year.

The Premier maintained that “today is an extremely disappointing day for the unvaccinated”.

“I think they assumed when we hit 80 per cent double dose they will have certain freedoms, but they will have to wait five or six weeks after others,” she said.

She noted that businesses â€" such as airlines â€" would still be able to make their own rules requiring patrons to be vaccinated after this date.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a number of grants for community pharmacies and general practices to help with the COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

Speaking during Monday’s press conference, he said grants of $4000 and $10,000 would be available to pharmacies and GPs in 11 local government areas. There would be an expression of interests process over the next week.

The included local government areas were Moreland, Brimbank, Cardinia, Casey, Darebin, Greater Dandenong, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Melton, Whittlesea and Wyndham.

“So what [the grants] means is, for instance, that a GP surgery can operate additional hours because they can employ some additional staff,” the Premier said.

“A couple of pharmacists put it to me that, ‘I haven’t got enough room in the shop.’

“But if [they] had a bit of help, then they could rent some space next door … [or] just down the road, and they’d be able to run it … like their own [vaccination hub]in that space.

“So this is all about additional staff, additional wages, additional space â€" just common sense.”

A man in his 70s from Darebin, in Melbourne’s north, is the latest person to die with COVID-19 in Victoria.

Premier Daniel Andrews said during Monday’s coronavirus update that 363 people are currently in hospital with the virus in the state.

Of those, 75 are in intensive care. Of the people in ICU, 56 are on a ventilator.

The Premier said more than 78 per cent of people aged 16 and over in Victoria have had a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and more than 47 per cent have received their second doses.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the state’s hospitals are “not out of the woods” despite hospitalisations appearing to stabilise.

“Pleasingly, the hospitalisation rate has not been as high as we had seen in the modelling and the ICU admissions have been a bit lower as well but it doesn’t mean we are out of the woods in terms of overwhelming our hospitals,” she said at this morning’s health update.

“Technically we are still looking at our system being overwhelmed in October.”

The Premier stressed she expected case numbers to “go through the roof” when the state reopened at 70 per cent full vaccination.

There are currently 1155 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital in NSW with 214 people in intensive care and 115 of whom require ventilation.

Although it reflects lower weekend numbers, there were only 93,577 tests reported in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday, prompting NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant to ask the community to please come out and get tested if they have any symptoms.

“Knowing that you have COVID is important for you but it also is important for your family and your loved ones,” she said.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says people from Greater Sydney will only be able to freely travel to regional NSW when the state hits 80 per cent full vaccination coverage, not 70 per cent as was originally announced.

“That is when you will be able to travel freely throughout NSW, and we envisage that to be by the end of October,” she said.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announcing her state’s 80 per cent road map.Credit:James Brickwood

Ms Berejiklian said the state government expected the easing of restrictions already announced for when the state hits 70 per cent full vaccination of its population aged 16 and over to come into effect on October 11.

“I would just say to everybody: it is just this week and next week, please hang in there,” she said.

She added that it was expected the state will hit 80 per cent full vaccination “as little as two weeks” after that date, but did not give a specific date.

This is when household gatherings for fully vaccinated people will double to a 10-person cap, community sport will resume and people will be able to drink while standing up at hospitality venues.

The Premier said people who are not fully vaccinated will be able to exit stay-at-home restrictions on December 1.

The one exception is for places of worship: people who have not received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will be able to enter churches, temples, mosques and other religious spaces when the state hits 80 per cent full vaccination.

NSW has recorded 787 new local coronavirus cases, its lowest daily figure since August 24.

Case numbers in the state are usually lower on Mondays and Tuesdays, as they reflect tests taken over the weekend.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the state had now officially passed the 85 per cent first dose rate, and 40 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 in the state had now received their first dose of a vaccine.

“Our double dose has been confirmed now at 60 per cent: we are literally just a few weeks away from having that 70 per cent double dose,” the Premier said.

The state has recorded 12 deaths since yesterday’s update: four people in their 60s, two in their 70s, four in their 80s, and two in their 90.

Six of the deaths were not vaccinated and five had received one dose of a vaccine.

Queensland has recorded no new cases of COVID-19, as the state works to increase its vaccination rate.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk travelled to the Gold Coast to announce more bookings were being made available in vaccination hubs.

It comes as the Premier faces sustained pressure from the federal government over its closed borders.

Ms Palaszczuk responded to the criticism, reiterating that her government was following the national cabinet plan for reopening once vaccination rates hit 80 per cent.

However, she also added that updated modelling from the Doherty Institute would be handed to national cabinet this Friday, and she was looking forward to what it said.

In the meantime the Premier urged Queenslanders to get vaccinated wherever they could, saying it remained the strongest measure to get out of the pandemic.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is due to provide a COVID-19 update from 10.45am AEST.

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