Thanks Happy Flyer
The 1st link suggests that NSW Health may not be due as many plaudits as AFFers have been awarding. It also does confirm there seems to be around 1,300 other 'returning travellers' who tested positive in NSW that illude these figures.
Up until March 14th there were only 248 +CV cases Australia-wide. So that does not explain even 1/10th of the missing 1,300 cases from NSW. Fun fact - those who tested positive from the previous Ruby Princess cruise (and led to the infection of crew members who spread it on the now fabled subsequent cruise) is believed to be responsible for the bulk of the rise from early March when the Aust-wide +CV cases stood at 31 on March 1st btw - that was not due to the 2 NSW nursing homes.
Just another of those 'embargoed' bits of information withheld.
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Shows the inaccurate "since March 29" which we've been told really covers back to March 15th.
However why is NSW Health using three different dates to supply information in the same table? March 29th, June 30 & May 15th?
That the May 15th data is reliant on the series above which is only quoted from June 30th is concerning. Was NSW Health only keeping track on the day 10 test results & not the day 2 test results (until 46 days later when someone thought it might be a good idea?).
Or is it a case of someone who does not know any better?
That the dates do not coincide with any change in arriving traveller regime (May 15th nor June 30th) does not provide any easy excuse. NSW introduced changes on July 4th & 14th for arriving travellers.
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No luck in tracking down the origins of those who tested positive though
(yet....)
The second link does show (if you scroll down some way) just how the Ruby Princess debacle spread CV around Australia - around 40+ flights within NSW and the rest of Australia by Ruby Princess passengers (look at the dates!). After a few days the number of flights with CV+ leaving Sydney drops by 80%.
Good article last week (if I find the link I'll add it) about how many passengers on the Q flight to the US with Ruby Princess passengers caught CV. Strange how it got zero publicity until 6+ months later, & directly contradicts what AJ said about the risk of catching CV on Q flights back then.