Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Yes. 2 x 19 years, plus another mystery woman?

What mystery woman? The 3rd case was a sister of one of the pair. Or are you referring to someone else?

 

[DC3]

… Apparently one of the positive cases in QLD is refusing to cooperate with contact tracers and won’t reveal their whereabouts and contacts over the previous 8 days.
Surely they go into the slammer until they cooperate

Authorities seem to be generally treating these types rather leniently. In any case, a fine is simply paying your way out of it.

Although prison may not be a deterrent for some, at least they would be seen to be paying a meaningful penalty.

Edited

 

[blackcat20]

What mystery woman? The 3rd case was a sister of one of the pair. Or are you referring to someone else?

I think someone else, there seems to be a third person who has travelled VIC-QLD.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

The only hope is that it’s reflective of the record number of tests 4 days ago (26/7) .........but I think unlikely........sigh.

Yes who knows. 42,973 test results as you say back then, and only 18K per day the three following days. So there could well be another bulge in the number of test results today.

As you know the test results per day are not reflective of tests performed within the last 24 hours which is only stated rarely in some press releases/conferences.

The highest spike so far was from 17,588 test results.

 

[dajop]

The collective “we” will be lucky to get this virus under control with movements as high as this:

“ More than 600,000 people have crossed NSW-Victoria border since closure
By Mary Ward
More than 600,000 people have crossed the NSW-Victoria border since it was closed on July 8.

Is that why this should be managed better on a regional basis, than a state basis? Find a legislative mechanism to institute a checkpoint, for example, to the north of Albury, or south of Wodonga, and that number of border crossings might be a lot lower.

 

[Saab34]

Today’s results would be from Saturday? Tomorrow could be in the 1000s?

I wonder if they did 6 figures worth of testing over the weekend. Would explain the large numbers. Is that justifiable though to keep paddling along doing nothing else? Higher testing...higher numbers. Sort of expected I guess.

 

[Lynda2475]

What mystery woman? The 3rd case was a sister of one of the pair. Or are you referring to someone else?

My understanding is that there were 3 women who flew back from Mel together - 2 have tested positive (the ones with their photos in the paper) and the 3rd has not tested positive at this stage. One of these 3 is refusing to tell police where they have been since returning to Queensland - so likely a lot more exposures.

Whilst the sister of one of the 2 photographed has tested positive, news reported she had not done anything wrong - she was simply living in the same house in Queensland. Apparently the 3 all live at home with large families.

Im shocked after being charged they were allowed to return home, surely they should have been detained immediately, clearly cant be trusted to do the right thing.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Society is soft on these folks and they will probably get away scot free.
There is a glaring source of Covid spread across Au ...but I am not permitted to utter it…..

Sigh...

Heard on the news that one of the infected people is refusing to tell health authorities where she's been to after returning to Brisbane.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Qld cases today....

Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles has announced the three new cases in the state are not related to yesterday's numbers.

Mr Miles said two of the cases are related to the Apollo Restaurant at Potts Point in Sydney, while the other is a returned traveller from the United States.

All three are in isolation.

 

[DC3]

What mystery woman? The 3rd case was a sister of one of the pair. Or are you referring to someone else?

No, all good. Just that the only report that I'd seen had mentioned the 3rd participant. I read a post about the 2 x 19 year-olds (and the planning of such an escapade) without knowing if the 3rd was the (older) "mastermind". There's probably more information out there somewhere. Not important in the scheme of things I guess, although an interesting story about the lengths that some will go to.

 

[DC3]

… Im shocked after being charged they were allowed to return home, surely they should have been detained immediately, clearly cant be trusted to do the right thing.

Yes, it seems to be very lenient treatment so far. Surely this is sending the wrong message.

 

[Denali]

We're a nation of dobbers - if they so much as leave their front door, ACA and the neighbours will be watching and ready to film.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I think I heard 45k tests

One tweet I saw had 43K, but that was just Sunday's number as they wrongly thought that was tests done rather test results announced.

If it was 45K then at yesterday's postivity rate you would get 700 cases.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Yes who knows. 42,973 test results as you say back then, and only 18K per day the three following days. So there could well be another bulge in the number of test results today.

As you know the test results per day are not reflective of tests performed within the last 24 hours which is only stated rarely in some press releases/conferences.

The highest spike so far was from 17,588 test results.

I believe the correct measure is test conducted, not test results.

edit: apologies - I went off covidlive which said test conducted. DHHS report says tests processed.

the measure is test results.

 

[DC3]

We're a nation of dobbers - if they so much as leave their front door, ACA and the neighbours will be watching and ready to film.

We'd like to think so. However, based on what they've been up to already, I'm guessing that they have the resources to do whatever they want, unnoticed.

Edit: Being told to stay at home is no worse than what should have already happened. No help to others who are doing the right thing.

 

[Pushka]

One of the Qld women is refusing to provide details of her travel in Brisbane since returning.

Unbelievable.

I think they need a high level COVID swab every hour.

 

[mbell1510]

It doesn't surprise me that the two girls got past the border at Brisbane Airport with ease. I went through on Friday and was surprised by the lack of interrogation from the police, so very easy to bypass. Literally just asked if I had been to a hotspot in Victoria and then waved through. Was not even asked about my movements within Sydney, especially to the "hot spot" areas.

And don't get me started on how my whole QF flight was forced to crowd shoulder-to-shoulder (no social distancing) at a gate lounge for 15 minutes due to not enough people to process us. Can't be too concerned about COVID aye

You'd think they'd be able to get the airlines to share flight records of incoming passengers with the police. If it can be done for international flights, surely it can be done for these silly domestic borders.

 

[Hvr]

A consequence of this incident is that there will be lots more identity checks before and after flights.

 

[jakeseven7]

Apparently there was a huge nursing home testing blitz in Victoria on Monday/Tuesday which may come through in the results today....

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

You'd think they'd be able to get the airlines to share flight records of incoming passengers with the police. If it can be done for international flights, surely it can be done for these silly domestic borders.

I guess only after the fact, not before crossing the border