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How do you know the index case less than 24 hours after it all kicked off?

Calm down. Perhaps he caught it after church. At this stage you have no idea of where in the chain he is.

As others have already pointed out:

Speaking of which: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been forced to defend the government’s tough stance on people coming into the state from NSW. (...) “We can’t have any more of these incursions, because we know what it means. Even a small number of cases will mean the state’s locked down.”

The key phrase. You originally completely mischaracterized the study and its findings.

(whispers furtively) That's what they want you to believe....

At least now you've all avoided the deadly Ekka variant of cow-COVID.

Nah, Tokyo’s is currently 19.5%.

Government intervention is really going too far...

That's a brilliant picture. I reckon you could sell it for a decent chunk of change.

And to provide the important context that you omitted: "For the UK's current situation..."

Japan are due to play South Africa in the men's football at 8PM local time tonight. Two South African players and one staffer tested positive a few days ago, and 18 members of the squad have since been designated close contacts. The players among the latter need to test negative six hours...

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57865803.amp The Scottish figure is up from one in every 100 the previous week - and compares with one in every 95 in England, one in 290 in Northern Ireland and one in 360 in Wales.

What are a couple of orders of magnitude between friends?

Just for comparison purposes… Tokyo’s positivity rate is currently running at around 9%. And around 1% of people in England and Scotland *currently* have COVID.

Quite seriously, why on earth do people care, as long as exposure sites are updated in a timely fashion (which they are)? Are you betting on it or something?

I have to take this back. All offers of help and support from the embassy and Australia’s other quite formidable infrastructure in Japan have been rejected. Apparently Queensland Olympic bids are for Queenslanders only.

Was just speaking to colleagues in Canberra. Is it just me, or is the prospect of people in a place with no community transmission for the most recent two thirds of the pandemic being basically unable to travel the sign of a failing nation...

No, no it is not. Well, not with any degree of openness. Australia's COVID-19 numbers (*) carry a giant asterisk in the eyes of the international community. That resentment will become increasingly difficult to withstand as the rest of the world comes to grips with a global pandemic. (*)...

I'm pretty sure the "fight a pandemic with a narrative" approach has been thoroughly discredited.