Details of Queensland's back to school plan have been released just over a week before classes return, as the state records 13 virus deaths and 8580 new cases.
A man in his 80s has died with COVID and 66 patients in ACT hospitals have the virus, as the ACT recorded 734 new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm yesterday.
There's been a steep increase in COVID-19 patients in NSW hospitals and 24 more deaths, as the education minister promises positive cases won't force classrooms closures under the state's back-to-school plan.
A man in his 60s and another aged in his 90s have died with COVID-19 and 62 patients are in hospital with the virus as the ACT recorded 826 new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm yesterday.
Nineteen people, including nine children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City, in what the city's fire commissioner called one of the worst blazes in recent memory.
