Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[Pushka]

Other news outlets are reporting the new infected case works in aged care...


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Queensland records one new case

Queensland has recorded one new case of COVID-19 on Saturday as a cluster linked to a trio who allegedly lied to avoid mandatory quarantine continues to grow.

Deputy Premier and Health Minister Steven Miles said the new case was the wife of a 27-year-old Bellbird Park man who tested positive on Friday.

Health authorities believe the couple contracted the virus after dining at an adjacent table to one of the women who had travelled to Melbourne.

As it happened: Victoria records 723 new COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths, face masks made mandatory across state; QLD border to close to Greater Sydney

The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 16.8 million, with the death toll surpassing 660,000.

www.smh.com.au

We can but hope they were the only ones. And she was isolating once her husband tested positive.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

390 in Victoria today but not sure if that’s from a lower testing base or not

More data out now.

397 from 25,501 tests.

That is less confirmed cases per test than in the last 5 days. (Though note the case number is adjusted due to corrections of past day's data and so the daily postivity % is not actually 100% representative of each day).

VIC POSITIVE TESTS
Daily Confirmed Cases / Daily Test Results

DATE	CASES	TESTS	POS
Sun 26 Jul	437	42,973	1.02 %
Mon 27 Jul	515	17,588	2.93 %
Tue 28 Jul	353	18,521	1.91 %
Wed 29 Jul	255	18,077	1.41 %
Thu 30 Jul	694	19,921	3.48 %
Fri 31 Jul	579	33,826	1.71 %
Sat 1 Aug	354	25,501	1.39 %

 

[jakeseven7]

We can but hope they were the only ones. And she was isolating once her husband tested positive.

QLD CHO indicates worked while may have been infected

Brisbane aged care home in lockdown after infected worker identified

Mr Miles said the new case was the wife of Bellbird Park man, who works at an aged care home on Brisbane’s southside.

Bolton Clarke Aged Care facility in Pinjarra Hills remains in lockdown, as Dr Young revealed it’s possible the woman was unknowingly infectious during her shift.

Coronavirus Australia live updates

The streets of Melbourne have been left completely deserted as the city was dealt its first ever coronavirus curfew.

www.news.com.au

 

[lovetravellingoz]

One additional dataset that was made publically available yesterday was Vic cases by postcode, which is more granular than per LGA.


VIC CASES POSTCODE
Fri 31 Jul

POSTCODE	CASES	ACTIVE	SUBURB
3029	640	346	Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit, Truganina
3064	546	286	Craigieburn, Donnybrook, Kalkallo, Mickleham, Roxburgh Park
3021	325	221	Albanvale, Kealba, Kings Park, St Albans
3030	317	217	Cocoroc, Point Cook, Quandong, Werribee, Werribee South
3023	270	177	Burnside, Burnside Heights, Cairnlea, Caroline Springs, Deer Park, Deer Park North, Ravenhall
3076	186	146	Epping
3020	223	144	Albion, Glengala, Sunshine, Sunshine North, Sunshine West
3037	195	119	Calder Park, Delahey, Hillside, Sydenham, Taylors Hill
3031	308	118	Flemington, Kensington

Click to View All Postcodes

 

[I love to travel]

Anyone want to predict whether SA will either close border to Qld or enforce quarantine to returning residents? Not sure how SA premier is positioning on this.

 

[Pushka]

Anyone want to predict whether SA will either close border to Qld or enforce quarantine to returning residents? Not sure how SA premier is positioning on this.

He is starting to throw out the idea. It will be a self quarantine and not a lockout like Victoria. We are supposed to be trying to go on our likely 3rd covid cancelled trip in 2 weeks time and son needs to get to Brisbane for the day to get biometrics done for a UK visa as they arent doing these in Adelaide currently. We are on tenterhooks. We will likely cancel. He will likely proceed and self iso if needed.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Not sure if this will help but Brisbane airport is on Commonwealth land and might not belong to the LGA. Reason why the Woolies precint can be open 24 hours at the airport it is not subject to local laws.

Not sure that will matter as there are numerous commonwealth properties throughout Australia, and they just seem to use LGA's, States, Suburbs etc as physical boundaries, or cordons. So unless there is a specific exemption you would imagine it would apply. ,

Also in this case local bylaws are not the vehicle for Covid 19 restrictions. So trading hours, are not really applicable as a precedent.



Council Maps & Boundaries - Australian Local Government Association

 

[nickykim]

Regarding active cases by postcode. This is probably a better picture of just what is out there...

 

[moa999]

There was another report in Sydney of people finding out about one of the restaurant clusters on Facebook before being contacted by NSW Health.

Suspect some restaurants/pubs are being proactive.

At the time they are contact by NSW Health asking for the register etc, they publish on social media.
Best way of doing things given what I suspect is some usage of fake numbers/names

 

[RAM]

There was another report in Sydney of people finding out about one of the restaurant clusters on Facebook before being contacted by NSW Health.

I guess they are chasing down thousands of people now....

Actually no. Commented upon many pages (a few days) earlier that the team of 300 Health Dept tracers had contacted around 4,900 people over a seven day period. Allowing for a 5 day work week - that makes just 3 to 4 contacts a day.

Source: NSW CMO release & interview.

About the the NSW Health Dept being up to date...

It only takes one IT person, or at least someone who has been show how, to update the NSW Dept of Health Covid web page of locations. A task that even for the most cautious person would take little more than ten minutes to add the locations.

Perhaps there are other reasons why certain businesses have not been named - such as Machiavelli's Restaurant coincidentally a favourite of NSW Politicians from all sides.

Decided to check & see if Hariss Farm Markets, Leichardt was listed & I'd missed it. No, still not shown there which was when I also saw the restaurant not mentioned either.

Need to know?

 

[Lynda2475]

A small win for the covid safe app:

Two people to test positive for COVID-19 after attending a pub in Sydney's southwest were identified as contacts through the COVIDSafe mobile app.

"For one of the cases where NSW Health accessed the COVIDSafe App data, a previously unrecognised exposure date from a known venue, Mounties, was identified," the state's health department said in a statement on Saturday.

"This resulted in the identification of an additional 544 contacts.

"Two people in this group presented for testing and were subsequently confirmed to have COVID-19."

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

QLD CHO indicates worked while may have been infected

Brisbane aged care home in lockdown after infected worker identified

Mr Miles said the new case was the wife of Bellbird Park man, who works at an aged care home on Brisbane’s southside.

Bolton Clarke Aged Care facility in Pinjarra Hills remains in lockdown, as Dr Young revealed it’s possible the woman was unknowingly infectious during her shift.

Coronavirus Australia live updates

The streets of Melbourne have been left completely deserted as the city was dealt its first ever coronavirus curfew.

www.news.com.au

So that means the assumption is that her positive aged care worker in Qld as infectious from 25/7 - 5 to 6 days....sigh.

 

[Pushka]

So that means the assumption is that her positive aged care worker in Qld as infectious from 25/7 - 5 to 6 days....sigh.

I thought I read somewhere today that she worked just the one shift at risk. We can hope. Anyway, the Home has certainly gone into appropriate action and no one showing symptoms.

 

[get me outta here]

@Seat0B, I’ve been dying to ask how she got on is there any news or maybe she hasn’t arrived yet?

Again, thanks @get me outta here, I just don’t know. The point really is, is this really what we have descended to? When carefully made and expensive and inconvenient travel plans, not for frivolous or criminal reasons, can be disrupted almost literally mid flight. It’s just so frustrating and depressing.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

And another 17 in NSW

Of the 17 new cases today:

• Three cases are travellers in hotel quarantine
• One case is an NSW resident who returned from Victoria
• Two cases attended the Apollo restaurant
• Two cases attended the Mounties Club in Mount Pritchard
• Seven cases are contacts of known cases
• One case is locally acquired with no known source identified
• Two cases are under investigation

So not a good day........

Confirmed cases to date

By likely source of infection	Count
Overseas	2,030​
Interstate acquired	79​
Locally acquired – contact of a confirmed case and/or in a known cluster	1,100​
Locally acquired – contact not identified	372​
Under investigation	3​
Total	3,584​

Counts reported for a particular day may vary over time with ongoing enhanced surveillance activities.

So 11 community transmission (ie unknown source) and 3 under investigation since the report on 10/7, which is the day before Crossroads Hotel was first reported.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Anyone want to predict whether SA will either close border to Qld or enforce quarantine to returning residents? Not sure how SA premier is positioning on this.

He is starting to throw out the idea. It will be a self quarantine and not a lockout like Victoria. We are supposed to be trying to go on our likely 3rd covid cancelled trip in 2 weeks time and son needs to get to Brisbane for the day to get biometrics done for a UK visa as they arent doing these in Adelaide currently. We are on tenterhooks. We will likely cancel. He will likely proceed and self iso if needed.

SA and NT tend to be about the same restrictions, so since NT has moved first on this occasion, SA will definitely move the next few days.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Less than an hour ago NSW Health twitter notified Mounties as Phase 2 (Ie test and isolate for 14 days regardless of symptoms or result)

Based on precedent, it is probably in response to an actual transmission at the site. The times are midnight -230am 20/7, 1215pm - 530pm 21/7 and 8pm - 1230am 22/7

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

First NSW death in the past few weeks....


An 83-year-old man, whose COVID-19 infection was linked to the Crossroads Hotel cluster, has died.

He is the first person to die from the virus since an 80-year-old woman died on May 21.

He is the 52nd COVID-19 fatality in NSW.

There have been 57 cases connected to the hotel in Casula in Sydney’s south-west. The man is the first death linked to the cluster.

NSW Health said the man died early this morning and extended condolences to his family.

Man, 83, dies from Crossroads COVID-19 cluster, becoming first NSW death since May

An 83-year-old man dies from COVID-19 after being infected from the Crossroads Hotel cluster — the first death linked to the venue — as NSW records 17 new cases.

www.abc.net.au

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

No new ACT cases, SA and NT have 1 new case each...

One new coronavirus case for South Australia
A man returning to South Australia from Victoria has tested positive to COVID-19.

SA Health says the man in his 20s developed mild symptoms on the day he caught a flight home to Adelaide on Tuesday.

Officials say 18 people on that flight are being treated as close contacts.

Chief Public Health Officer, Nicola Spurrier, says the man had close contact with two family members who work in the aged care sectorin SA but they've since tested negative.

The NT records one new coronavirus case
The Northern Territory has recorded its second confirmed case of coronavirus in two days.

The woman is the partner of a man who tested positive to COVID-19 yesterday while on a flight to Darwin from Melbourne.

They had approval to travel to Victoria because a member of their family needed essential medical treatment.

They're receiving care under isolation at Royal Darwin Hospital and the NT Government says contract tracing has been completed.

courtesy ABC Covid live blog

 

[Pushka]

SA and NT tend to be about the same restrictions, so since NT has moved first on this occasion, SA will definitely move the next few days.

Hope it stays open until Monday week and then son is fine.