NSW records 22 new cases, Qld three; Alice Springs to enter lockdown – as it happened

Queensland health minister Yvette D’Ath says state is running out of Pfizer vaccines, and Alice Springs will enter a three-day lockdown. This blog is now closed.

• Rift grows between states and Morrison government over AstraZeneca vaccine
• Alice Springs joins parts of NSW, Queensland and Perth in lockdown

9.29am BST

We’ll leave it there for today.

Here are the main developments of the day:

9.03am BST

At the NSW Covid update earlier today, it was announced that a 24-year-old student nurse had tested positive for Covid-19, which forced hospital wards at Fairfield and Royal North Shore hospitals into lockdown.

NSW Health have just clarified further details about this case, issuing an alert that the student was infectious for a five-day period from 24-28 June while working across the two hospitals.

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