1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Welcome to the daly ODS. Three states 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: in lockdown, that's right, Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 3: So we actually thought that geographically diversifying the dally OS 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 3: team would be a good idea, but it turns out 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 3: every single member of our team is in lockdown and 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 3: that is because yesterday South Australian Premier Stephen Marshall announced 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 3: the seven day lockdown after the state recorded two new 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 3: locally acquired cases. 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: We have confirmation in the last half now that this 11 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 2: is the Delta variant that we're dealing with here in 12 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: South Australia, and for those reasons, we're extremely concerned about 13 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 2: developments this morning. 14 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 3: Under this lockdown, all schools were closed, construction is already banned, 15 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 3: and similar to other states, there'll be five reasons to 16 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 3: leave home as usual. That includes care and compassion, essential work, 17 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 3: purchasing essential goods, medical reasons and exercise. So now there 18 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 3: are five cases that are linked to this current cluster, 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 3: and as Premier Marshal alluded to, we have confirmed that 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: it is the Delta variant. 21 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: Something got picked up in our caption on Instagram yesterday. 22 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: Is it true that no intimate partners are allowed in 23 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: this lockdown yep. 24 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 3: So with this lockdown there are no single bubbles allowed, 25 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 3: so you can't visit an intimate partner at their home 26 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,199 Speaker 3: and you can't visit any other singles in their home either. 27 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 3: So that's different to Victoria and also different to New 28 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 3: South Wales where you are able to visit an intimate partner. 29 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: Across the border. In Victoria, Premier Dan Andrews announced the 30 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: state's lockdown would be extended by seven days. 31 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 3: But we need more time and that's why i'm the 32 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 3: advice of the Chief Health Officer. We will extend these 33 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 3: lockdowns for a further seven days. 34 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: Thirteen locally acquired COVID cases yesterday in the state. It's 35 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: now expected that the state will open up at midnight 36 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: next Tuesday, the twenty seventh of July. In New South Wales, 37 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: there were seventy eight locally acquired cases of COVID, a 38 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: bit of a dip from a previous cluster of numbers 39 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: hovering around that kind of one ten mark, but the 40 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: number of infectious people in the community remains at the 41 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: high twenties. Yesterday was twenty seven. 42 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: Taking a short break from COVID news the Islamic State 43 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 3: group has claimed responsibility for suicide bombing in Iraq that 44 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,119 Speaker 3: killed at least twenty five individuals yesterday and injured. 45 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: More than sixty people. 46 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 3: We've heard from hospital sources that the death toll is 47 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: likely to rise beyond that because there are quite a 48 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 3: few wounded who are in a critical condition. The device 49 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 3: exploded in a marketplace while families prepared for the Islamic 50 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 3: Festival of Eed. The bombing is believed to be the 51 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 3: deadliest in the last six months. 52 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 1: And today's good news from the US. South Carolina State 53 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: University has canceled nine point eight million dollars in student 54 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: debt for more than two and a half thousand students. 55 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: The majority of students whose debts will be canceled were 56 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: either not enrolled for the next semester because of past 57 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: due account balances, or even left university completely because they 58 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: couldn't afford to pay. The cancelation was achieved with four 59 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: million dollars from former President trump Cares Act and five 60 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: point eight million dollars from President Biden's American Rescue Plan. 61 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: Good to see both of the presidents combining on something, 62 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: even if it is their money doing the talking. 63 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 3: So sometimes our deep dive is to explain an idea 64 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 3: or a concept, like what we did yesterday about leaks, 65 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 3: and other times we want to use these precious couple 66 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 3: of minutes in the morning to highlight a story that 67 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 3: you might have missed. And this is one of those times. 68 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 3: There isn't anything particularly nuanced or that we feel like 69 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 3: we need to explain with this situation in Indonesia, but 70 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 3: it is something that is getting missed in a very 71 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 3: fast news cycle. So here's the latest. Indonesia is the 72 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 3: new COVID epicenter, and there's absolutely no doubt about that. 73 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 3: The country recorded a record one thousand, three hundred and 74 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 3: thirty eight deaths in a single day on Monday, and 75 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,119 Speaker 3: for the past week, Indonesia has averaged over forty nine 76 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: thousand new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths, 77 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 3: which is an extremely worrying number. The total number of 78 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 3: infections there has surpassed two point nine million, and there 79 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 3: isn't really an end in sight because vaccination rates are 80 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 3: extremely low, so we're looking at five point eight percent 81 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 3: of the population being fully vaccinated. 82 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: I remember reading a report a couple of months ago 83 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: where the Indonesian tourism authorities were pitching to Australians to 84 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 1: come back to Bali and to make Bali part of 85 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: the Australian COVID travel bubble by July. So it is 86 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: a stark comparison to where Indonesian authorities thought they would be. 87 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 3: And the thing with this is that there is so 88 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 3: much more to this story that we might not know. 89 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 3: So there are extremely low rates of testing, which means 90 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: that official data is vastly underestimating the scale and the 91 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 3: toll of what is going on. But what we are 92 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 3: seeing is mass graves being built and this sort of 93 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 3: ad hoc death infrastructure being created across the country, and 94 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 3: if you've seen the images, they're absolutely horrific. The healthcare 95 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: system isn't doing much better, so it is severely struggling 96 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: like we saw in India. There are not enough beds 97 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 3: and there is not enough oxygen, with some people having 98 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 3: to bring their own oxygen tanks. So the government has 99 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: tried to address this and there have been planned for 100 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 3: nearly eight thousand new hospital beds and measures to boost 101 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 3: the number of healthcare workers. But really those supplies are 102 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 3: needed now, not in the near future. 103 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: To make matters worse, in Indonesia. There's also a surge 104 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: of misinformation going around online that is often leading people 105 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: down false medical paths. One example is a growing number 106 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: of people in the country is sharing claims about using 107 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: an anti parasitic drug called ivermectin. So the drug is 108 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: still undergoing trials but is so far unproven as a 109 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: cure for COVID nineteen. There's also been viral videos of 110 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: people buying up a particular brand of Nesle milk, claiming 111 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: that drinking this brand of milk could produce COVID antibodies. 112 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: The price of that milk in Indonesia actually shot up 113 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: by four hundred feet fifty five percent as a result. 114 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: With so much happening in the domestic news cycle around 115 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, I mean yesterday's Aara and I were traversing 116 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: three different press conferences almost at once, it's often easy 117 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: to forget how other countries are traveling through this pandemic. 118 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: We always like to say that part of a healthy 119 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: news cycle is focusing on some stories from overseas, so 120 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: it's a really important discussion to have. We hope for 121 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: a little less chaos around eleven am today, but we'll 122 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: be there on Instagram. Regardless of what happens, you can 123 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: find us at the Daily OS. It's where over one 124 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand Australians get their news throughout the day.