Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[Lynda2475]

HH gatherings

Do you mean in home gatherings?

 

[jakeseven7]

A good summary of all the new restrictions in Sydney and for the locked down LGA's - in one place.

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NSW records 16 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases as sweeping social distancing restrictions confirmed as workers and residents in 7 Sydney LGAs are not permitted to leave metropolitan Sydney​

Sweeping new social distancing restrictions will be introduced in Greater Sydney today after NSW's COVID-19 outbreak grew by 16 cases and spread from Bondi to the city's south-west.

• Half of the new 16 cases were linked to a birthday party in south-west Sydney
• New social distancing restrictions will come into effect at 4:00pm
• NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the state "didn't expect this situation a few days ago"

Travel restrictions are also being introduced.

From 4:00pm today, people from the local government areas of Sydney, Woollahra, Randwick, Waverley, Inner West, Bayside and Canada Bay will not be allowed to leave the Harbour City's metropolitan area for non-essential reasons.

There are now 31 cases linked to the Bondi cluster, but health authorities are very concerned about four infections they've not been able trace so far.

'I want the public to be prepared': NSW Premier refuses to rule out lockdown

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has always maintained that social restrictions reintroduced Wednesday are in line with the current risk, but concedes she may need to go harder to contain the highly transmissible Delta strain.

www.abc.net.au

 

[antycbr]

Manage 32 staff in Randwick. Operationally I'm splitting my teams back in half for those required to be onsite, and rostering the onsite people based on if they live in the hot LGAs or elsewhere in Sydney to minimise east-west travel as much as possible out of the hot area. Then considering vulnerable people/public transport vs car use/young children/underlying medical conditions. It's a rostering nightmare!

Fortunately I work in local government so my team all know exactly where LGA boundaries are, but for a lot of people they're pretty abstract lines.

 

[dajop]

About to be a little facetious, but do the WA restrictions preclude anyone who has been on a plane that landed at OOL from the north, or taken off from OOL from the south from entering WA?

 

[antycbr]

About to be a little facetious, but do the WA restrictions preclude anyone who has been on a plane that landed at OOL from the north, or taken off from OOL from the south from entering WA?
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It's commonwealth land, so until WA secedes they would have to have another set of hard border restrictions for Commonwealth land, which wouldn't go down so well.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

About to be a little facetious, but do the WA restrictions preclude anyone who has been on a plane that landed at OOL from the north, or taken off from OOL from the south from entering WA?
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Yes I did note that border on my last Qld trip when I briefly entered NSW via the road that the GPS suggested to access. I had to quickly refresh my memory of what the then border rules were for Qld/NSW and back that applied to Victorians..

 

[jakeseven7]

Manage 32 staff in Randwick. Operationally I'm splitting my teams back in half for those required to be onsite, and rostering the onsite people based on if they live in the hot LGAs or elsewhere in Sydney to minimise east-west travel as much as possible out of the hot area. Then considering vulnerable people/public transport vs car use/young children/underlying medical conditions. It's a rostering nightmare!

Fortunately I work in local government so my team all know exactly where LGA boundaries are, but for a lot of people they're pretty abstract lines.

We are urgently bailing some people out to Melbourne tonight. The flights are now almost full .

 

[bcworld]

I wonder how many clients this person saw? Was hairdressing covered by the previous mandatory mask ruling? Or am I confusing masks with check in at 'beauty services'?

 

[Lynda2475]

Was hairdressing covered by the previous mandatory mask ruling?

All indoor public venues (so yes that includes hairdressers) required you to wear a mask if they were in one for the 7 LGAs (and now its all of Greater Sydney). But i don't think that was in play last week, it was only recommended then.

 

[Pushka]

Does anyone know when the superspreader party was?

 

[Lynda2475]

Does anyone know when the superspreader party was?

West Hoxton (in Southwest Sydney) in the Liverpool LGA, but the super spreader attendee works at Bondi.

These are the latest cases from ABC blog:

The seven cases were heard about yesterday:

• A child who attends St Charles Catholic Primary School, Waverley
• A man in his 60s from Wollongong. He is a household contact of a previously reported case and has been in isolation while infectious
• Five family members who are household contacts of a previous case. They have been in isolation while infectious

Three further cases were reported to 8pm last night:

• A man in his 50s who works in Bondi Junction
• A woman in her 40s from Wollongong. She is a close contact of a previously reported case and has been in isolation while infectious
• A man in his 30s from South West Sydney. He is a close contact of a previously reported case

The 13 cases that came in after 8:00pm overnight:

• Eight of these cases are linked to a birthday party in West Hoxton, attended by a previously reported case linked to the Bondi cluster. About 30 people attended this party and they have all been tested and are in isolation. A total of 10 people who attended the party have now tested positive for COVID-19, including a two-year-old child, who attended Little Zak’s childcare in Narellan Vale on June 21
• One of these cases is a close contact of a previously reported case linked to the Bondi cluster
• Four are currently unlinked. Urgent investigations and contact tracing are underway

 

[Pushka]

Southwest Sydney in the Liverpool LGA

When though? Saturday night? It's fairly important to anyone who may have been in Sydney impacted areas but Ive not seen the day reported.

 

[N860CR]

Southwest Sydney in the Liverpool LGA, but the super spreader attendee works at Bondi

And with the expected logic of this covid-show Liverpool Council is not covered by the new restrictions nor numerous state government travel bans

 

[Lynda2475]

When though?

Sorry I misread that as where not when. I think Dr Chant said it was on Monday night.

 

[Pushka]

Sorry I misread that as where not when. I think Dr Chant said it was on Monday night.

Gosh. That's so quick to turn so bad!

 

[N860CR]

Gosh. That's so quick to turn so bad!

Depends how you look at it. I’d say it was quickly identified, the exposed people quickly contacted, tested and isolated. Realistically means they present very limited risk to the community.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

This also from ABC News, a number of interesting comments from Dr Chant including:

"What is interesting is a number of the people at this venue were vaccinated, none of the vaccinated ones have become positive to my knowledge.
"We are interested in that into the future.





By Dannielle Maguire

How does the Bondi outbreak compare to the Northern Beaches cluster?​

Back to NSW now, where the state's Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant was asked about how different this outbreak is to the one at the end of last years in Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Here's what she said:

"Every cluster has a unique characteristic and what we saw with the Northern Beaches cluster was a superspreader event that there were two different values that amplified the transmission and then we were able to get on top of it.

"We were not dealing with Delta at that time.

"What is particularly concerning is usually we would have seen a retail environment as low risk settings.
"If you are shopping in the department store, they are generally not crowded places.
"They are not when walking around, generally people do try to keep some distance.
"We saw close contact but it would be the inadvertent contact you would have in retail settings that we would not have suspected transmission could happen as objectively.

"We have also seen the speed at which transmission happens in households — we haven't got any leeway here.
"To get on top of people's exposure venue within a couple of days of that exposure venue, you would hope that a proportion were not, that such a high proportion were not infected.

"What is interesting is a number of the people at this venue were vaccinated, none of the vaccinated ones have become positive to my knowledge.
"We are interested in that into the future.
"What I am trying to say to you is that, that party, we have such a high number of people infected at that party."

From memory Dr Chant also said with the party that people were being infected by a person who themselves was probably only infected that not long a period prior to the party.

So overall Dr Chant was reinforcing that this strain is more transmissible. That transmission can occur more rapidly from when a person gets infected, and that the transmission event can be very brief and in settings thought not likely before.

 

[JessicaTam]

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[Pushka]

Depends how you look at it. I’d say it was quickly identified, the exposed people quickly contacted, tested and isolated. Realistically means they present very limited risk to the community.

I meant from contact to multiple positives.

 

[mhen]

Sorry I misread that as where not when. I think Dr Chant said it was on Monday night.

No it was Saturday night.