More than 2.5 million Aussies are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with 175,000 people rolling up their sleeves yesterday.

Calls are growing for a harder lockdown for SYDNEY in order to bring the Covid outbreak under control.

A bar at the MCG and a pub in Melbourne's CBD have been identified as COVID exposure sites, after more stranger to stranger transmission cases.

In sport, two athletes withdraw from the Australian Olympic team.

And in entertainment news, Caitlyn Jenner arrives in Sydney for Celebrity Big Brother.