Good morning everyone. Hope you had restful weekends.

1. NSW recorded 105 new local cases of COVID-19 yesterday. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 27 of those new cases were infectious in the community. “That is the number that worries us the most,” Berejiklian said. “As we have explained previously, we won’t see the results of this until five days because there is a lag in the data.” As for today’s number – if the guy who has been leaking them on TikTok is right again, it’ll be 109. Sigh.

2. Public transport services will be cut and schools will operate on skeleton staff from Monday in NSW in an effort to stop the spread. This is in addition to the ban on all construction work and the closure of non-essential retail, both of which were announced on Saturday. The initial list of ‘essential’ jobs expanded Saturday afternoon following consultation with business, to include people working at garden centres, bottle shops, factories and other roles such as delivery drivers.

3. Victoria recorded 13 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 this morning. (One of those we already knew about from yesterday, so it’s technically 12 if you’ve been paying close attention.) The Victorian Department of Health says all of the new cases are linked to current outbreaks.

4. It does cast doubts on whether Victoria’s five-day lockdown will end midnight tomorrow as planned. Premier Daniel Andrews is expected to make a decision on the extension today, with Nine reporting the lockdown could stretch out until Friday or longer. Exposure sites have ballooned to 200 across the state.

5. The federal government has cancelled the visa of far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins. She was being flown in by Seven to appear on “Celebrity Big Brother” but instantly drew controversy by posting about how she was flouting the rules in hotel quarantine. I’m no TV production genius personally, but whichever producer thought booking Hopkins for a show just before Seven was going to be answerable to Olympics sponsors clearly has rocks in their head.

6. Two South African soccer players are the first athletes inside the Olympic village in Tokyo to test positive for COVID-19. Games organisers confirmed the positive tests on Sunday. Meanwhile, members of Australia’s Olympic athletics squad were quarantined in Queensland on Saturday following a COVID-19 scare.

7. The current state of Australia’s vaccine rollout means the government and private sector should re-examine how mandatory vaccination factors into the country’s pandemic response, an expert argues. Stephen Duckett, director of the health and aged care program at Grattan Institute, told Business Insider Australia there was a case for mandating employees be vaccinated in certain sectors to reduce risk. “I think there are circumstances when it is absolutely legitimate to mandate vaccination for particular employer groups,” he said.

8. Jeff Bezos and his fellow soon-to-be astronauts have begun training for their suborbital flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard. Bezos will fly to the edge of space with his brother, Mark, 82-year-old Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daeman. The rocket has undergone necessary safety checks and is ready to go, Blue Origin officials said Sunday.

9. The rise of ‘finfluencers’ and huge surge in financial content on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Twitter over the past 18 months has hooked a new generation around the world on finance and investing. Recent research shows that young investors are following riskier, more short-term strategies to make profits. “The FOMO culture that dominates social platforms like TikTok, Reddit and Instagram has become a breeding ground for the marketing of high-risk investments shunned by the mainstream investment industry – often for good reason,” one expert told Insider.

10. A house in New Zealand with no toilet has sold at auction for $1.45 million. Old news, you might say to me. It’s been like that in Australia for years! But it’s an indicator of how hot the New Zealand property market is getting, reflecting some of the heat we’re seeing here – especially in our capital cities.

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