Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[HappyFlyerFamily]

The press conference said the worker tested negative on Sunday but on review after they were found to be positive on Wednesday, the Sunday sample was actually a weak positive?

COVID-response commander Jeroen Weimar said a female hotel quarantine worker linked to the Holiday Inn had been at the function at the private dining centre on February 6 before she first tested positive on February 10. That's how these two new cases contracted the virus.

Original bolding from ABC covid blog

So nothing on any tests conducted on Sunday 7 February

 

[Must...Fly!]

COVID-response commander Jeroen Weimar said a female hotel quarantine worker linked to the Holiday Inn had been at the function at the private dining centre on February 6 before she first tested positive on February 10. That's how these two new cases contracted the virus.

Original bolding from ABC covid blog

So nothing on any tests conducted on Sunday 7 February

I was watching and Jeroen himself said it as did the CHO

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Apparently 80,000 vaccine landing by the end of next week

Sounds like a week for TGA to check quality and potential spoilage issues.

First jabs by the end of Feb

First phase of vaccination to be completed in six weeks​

Mr Hunt says those in the first phase of the vaccine rollout will be vaccinated within six weeks of it kicking off.

"Later in the week, once we have got the confirmed doses and the confirmed numbers, we will set that out to indicate that, within those areas, there are three priorities.

"There are the border and quarantine workers and there will be a specific focus in the first fortnight on [them] ... Our aged care residents and our staff - of course our aged care residents are vulnerable - and our frontline health workers. And disability residents and staff for disability care centres. So that is phase 1A and we think it will take the better part of six weeks, over the course of it."

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I was watching and Jeroen himself said it as did the CHO

Sorry I should have worded it better. I don’t doubt you, just not picked up by the ABC blog.

 

[jakeseven7]

Vic press conference now on. Positive Quarantine Worker went to the Coburg function with 38 people! If you can’t trust quarantine workers to stick to the 15 people limit, what hope have we got!

Calm down Herald Sun, a function centre / restaurant / cafe etc etc is allowed to have far more than 15 people space permitting... sigh...

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Apparently Brunetti T4 Melbourne Airport

12 colleagues - all negative
19 customers, now interstate and being followed up by those States
15 customers in Victoria, 13 negative, 2 pending

 

[Lynda2475]

Note the child who is positive in Vic today is not the child of the adult reported today and not a household member of any of the HQ workers. She contracted it at the Coburg venue and her Mum's result is being investigated such that there will likely be at least one more positive in tomorrows numbers being the Mum.

 

[jakeseven7]

Waiting for the Australian states to screech at the Feds to shut the NZ bubble off again to stop it spreading to Australia after NZ records 3 local cases. Quiet so far...

Has SA fallen asleep or something? Or too embarrassed after the VIC closure debacle....?

What are they waiting for? NZ had 33% more local cases than VIC today!!!

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Waiting for the Australian states to screech at the Feds to shut the NZ bubble off again to stop it spreading to Australia after NZ records 3 local cases. Quiet so far...

Has SA fallen asleep or something? Or too embarrassed after the VIC closure debacle....?

What are they waiting for? NZ had 30% more local cases than VIC today!!!

You need to work on your maths...or your expression (or both)

 

[zenyattamondatta]

The facts are now coming out....Vic DH or the Covid commander has blood on their hands.

As I said it looks like Vic DH or CQV seems to have blood on their hands

And maybe you could work on not sounding so hysterical?

 

[Scr77]

That the 15 people limit, introduced on 4th February 2021, did not apply to "restaurants, cafes, pubs and bars" and not even to "venues"?

A two-square-metre rule applied:

"They are open for seated and unseated service, must use electronic record-keeping and apply the two-square-metre rule.
There are no other limits on the number of customers."

Calm down Herald Sun, a function centre / restaurant / cafe etc etc is allowed to have far more than 15 people space permitting... sigh...

This is true if it was a restaurant etc.

It looks as though the business has closed down and the family has held their function at a family member premises. To me, that’s a regular family gathering and 15 people should apply!

 

[kyle]

I don't think there has been a lot of panic from people. The government, however...

Was out and about in the eastern suburbs this morning, going to supermarket and picking up takeaway, I think other than a little bit of low stock on mince, everyone seemed very relaxed and business as usual.

 

[jb747]

Apparently 80,000 vaccine landing by the end of next week

.....

First phase of vaccination to be completed in six weeks

Ah. So, 6 weeks to do 80,000. At that rate, assuming we need to vaccinate about 18 million people, the entire job will be done in 25.96 years.

Scarily, that sort of efficiency wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Austman]

It looks as though the business has closed down and the family has held their function at a family member premises. To me, that’s a regular family gathering and 15 people should apply!

It's been described, many times, as a "private dining venue" or a "function centre".

The exposure site is now listed as a "private dining venue" at 426 Sydney Road, Coburg. Which looks like it was a restaurant.

A venue is a venue. It shouldn't matter about its ownership or its financials if it's an actual venue (and not eg a home/household).

What if the function was held in a next door restaurant instead? Or any other venue for that matter? Would that have made any difference?

What should matter is the two-square-metre rule. That's (apparently) the important bit.

Seems like all the rules were met. So argue about the rules themselves and not about the persons, who it seems, stuck to the rules?

 

[Must...Fly!]

Ah. So, 6 weeks to do 80,000. At that rate, assuming we need to vaccinate about 18 million people, the entire job will be done in 25.96 years.

Scarily, that sort of efficiency wouldn't surprise me.

There will be 2 million AZ doses by the end of March, and then a million a week.

The 2 million Pfizer doses come over the next 3 months.

In theory everyone could have a first dose by roughly June, I think. Depending what sort of regimen is approved by the TGA for Ox-AZ

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Ah. So, 6 weeks to do 80,000. At that rate, assuming we need to vaccinate about 18 million people, the entire job will be done in 25.96 years.

Scarily, that sort of efficiency wouldn't surprise me.

The first batch is the Pfizer vaccine which requires special handling.

The Oxford vaccine can be dispensed by GPs and pharmacists.

 

[Pushka]

Ah. So, 6 weeks to do 80,000. At that rate, assuming we need to vaccinate about 18 million people, the entire job will be done in 25.96 years.

Scarily, that sort of efficiency wouldn't surprise me.

Group 1a requires 1.4 million vaccinations. 80,000 is just the first shipment to start with. If started at the end of next week, 1a should be completed by end of March, or Easter.

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[drron]

Finishing my stint early tomorrow.I have to say if there is a community outbreak here it could well spread quickly.Around Devonport you basically don't see any masks.
At the hospital people attending the ED are given a mask to use until they are seen.Walking past the waiting room it is unusual to see 50% wearing the mask.And 50% of those not wearing it properly.
I did a little tanty in the ED this morning.A fellow with febrile neutropenia was being admitted.In the open ward with no one wearing PPE.A no no even in non Covid times.
And this in a hospital that treated 41 covid patients.

 

[jase05]

Probably just being over cautious but our Melbourne facilities are planning for the ring of steel to come into effect Wednesday

 

[Must...Fly!]

Probably just being over cautious but our Melbourne facilities are planning for the ring of steel to come into effect Wednesday

Could well happen.

How they plan to staff it is another question.

 

[jase05]

Could well happen.

How they plan to staff it is another question.

I don’t think that it will happen and hope it’s all fine by then but obviously they are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
Ive just seen they have released a few more Tier 1 locations which includes a couple of tram routes in peak weekday times but hopefully nothing comes from it