Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Staff working with patients are front line and were in 1a.

Well I recall a time that health care workers (eg nurse, doctor) in covid ward was 1a and other healthcare workers and ancillary staff was 1b, then due to supply issues some covid wards were pushed to 1b, etc.

ALSO some administrators were claiming 1a even without any patients.

Qld leadership being one of the last to have their vaccine (perhaps emblematic of a larger proportion of population having vaccine hesitancy)

Here you have a 19 year old casual. Possibly first or second job. More possibly would have fell between the gaps of being listed for vaccination

 

[Pushka]

Well I recall a time that health care workers (eg nurse, doctor) in covid ward was 1a and other healthcare workers and ancillary staff was 1b, then due to supply issues some covid wards were pushed to 1b, etc.

ALSO some administrators were claiming 1a even without any patients.

Qld leadership being one of the last to have their vaccine (perhaps emblematic of a larger proportion of population having vaccine hesitancy)

Here you have a 19 year old casual. Possibly first or second job. More possibly would have fell between the gaps of being listed for vaccination

Seems to me that when someone starts a new job there is a series of checklists to ensure they are oriented to the work environment. Things like payroll, Super Fund, bank account details, address, and so on. In the midst of a pandemic Is it too much to expect than when someone works in a Covid environment that vaccination isn't on that list?

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Seems to me that when someone starts a new job there is a series of checklists to ensure they are oriented to the work environment. Things like payroll, Super Fund, bank account details, address, and so on. In the midst of a pandemic Is it too much to expect than when someone works in a Covid environment that vaccination isn't on that list?

Simply yes.....unfortunately (it isn't mandatory)

 

[justinbrett]

Another case for QLD confirmed - the brother of the hospital receptionist/travel enthusiast. He is a highschool student and has been on a tennis co-curricular program.

She has another family member and a close friend who are also sick, so likely four cases. Then, there's the question of their contact tracing.

 

[Amanad78]

Another case for QLD confirmed - the brother of the hospital receptionist/travel enthusiast. He is a highschool student and has been on a tennis co-curricular program.

She has another family member and a close friend who are also sick, so likely four cases. Then, there's the question of their contact tracing.

Yes, the school have sent a notification to parents. The tennis was on 'Monday', assuming last Monday 21st, not yesterday.

 

[antycbr]

Another case for QLD confirmed - the brother of the hospital receptionist/travel enthusiast. He is a highschool student and has been on a tennis co-curricular program.

She has another family member and a close friend who are also sick, so likely four cases. Then, there's the question of their contact tracing.

In 2019 we would hardly have called someone going BNE-TSV on VA as a “travel enthusiast”!!!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Quite remarkable that state governments are happy to run international students and Australian Open participants over and above their caps - without federal government assistance.

Yes a difficult balancing act to balance risk of virus spread plus returning Australian Residents still overseas. Though the christmas returnees did not all stay once back.

Yes there have been all sorts of arrangements and by most, if not all State and Territories. But should state and territory governments just leave sectors to wither and die? Personally I think the governments needed to step in, the same as I support FIFO being supported to keep the Mining Sector going. .



Though they are as far as I am aware been mainly based on getting those involved to pay. ie With the international students the Universities have to chip in. And some are in addition to the cap, and others within the cap.

I think many in the movie and entertainment industry have been in addition to the caps. At least when those involved have been willing to pay.

AO had its own HQ with separate staff. The Indian Cricket Board funded the return of a batch of cricketers with a period of quarantine in the Maldives and then in Australia.

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DEBT-STRICKEN Charles Darwin University will shell out nearly $160,000 to pay for international students to quarantine at Howard Springs, with that number likely to grow in the coming months…​

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A CDU spokeswoman confirmed, following questions from the NT News, that it would be paying $2500 for each student to quarantine at Howard Springs, but would not specify where it would get the money…​

The NSW government is taking a plan to national cabinet to bring up to 1000 international students a week into Sydney starting in the new year…​

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The students, to arrive on charter flights, will use up nearly one-third of the state’s 3000 passenger a week limit on overseas entries…​

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The plan is strongly backed by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian because of the economic benefit it will bring NSW…​

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The NSW move was welcomed by International Education Association of Australia chief executive Phil Honeywood.​

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“The sector really respects the NSW premier’s commitment to bringing students back early in the new year. There is every chance now that NSW will become the market leader if other states plans do not place emphasis on adequate student numbers,” he said.​

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The arriving students will need to spend two weeks in quarantine, and some universities are willing to pay the $3000 quarantine cost on the students’ behalf…​

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The Morrison government, which controls immigration, will need to approve the plan but federal Education Minister Dan Tehan said “we want to work with states and territories to see what we can do to get international students returning after Christmas”.​

 

[lovetravellingoz]

In 2019 we would hardly have called someone going BNE-TSV on VA as a “travel enthusiast”!!!

Sadly at times turning the lockdowns my main travel adventure was donating blood.

I even got to travel more than 5km from home!

And to talk with strangers...... mind you the food was definitely only economy class and no alcohol.

 

[justinbrett]

Yes a difficult balancing act to balance risk of virus spread plus returning Australian Residents still overseas. Though the christmas returnees did not all stay once back.

Yes there have been all sorts of arrangements and by most, if not all State and Territories. But should state and territory governments just leave sectors to wither and die? Personally I think the governments needed to step in, the same as I support FIFO being supported to keep the Mining Sector going. .



Though they are as far as I am aware been mainly based on getting those involved to pay. ie With the international students the Universities have to chip in. And some are in addition to the cap, and others within the cap.

I think many in the movie and entertainment industry have been in addition to the caps. At least when those involved have been willing to pay.

AO had its own HQ with separate staff. The Indian Cricket Board funded the return of a batch of cricketers with a period of quarantine in the Maldives and then in Australia.

​

DEBT-STRICKEN Charles Darwin University will shell out nearly $160,000 to pay for international students to quarantine at Howard Springs, with that number likely to grow in the coming months…​

​

A CDU spokeswoman confirmed, following questions from the NT News, that it would be paying $2500 for each student to quarantine at Howard Springs, but would not specify where it would get the money…​

The NSW government is taking a plan to national cabinet to bring up to 1000 international students a week into Sydney starting in the new year…​

​

The students, to arrive on charter flights, will use up nearly one-third of the state’s 3000 passenger a week limit on overseas entries…​

​

The plan is strongly backed by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian because of the economic benefit it will bring NSW…​

​

The NSW move was welcomed by International Education Association of Australia chief executive Phil Honeywood.​

​

“The sector really respects the NSW premier’s commitment to bringing students back early in the new year. There is every chance now that NSW will become the market leader if other states plans do not place emphasis on adequate student numbers,” he said.​

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The arriving students will need to spend two weeks in quarantine, and some universities are willing to pay the $3000 quarantine cost on the students’ behalf…​

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The Morrison government, which controls immigration, will need to approve the plan but federal Education Minister Dan Tehan said “we want to work with states and territories to see what we can do to get international students returning after Christmas”.​

Yes, you've proven my intended point. States can do things without federal government assistance.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Yes, you've proven my intended point. States can do things without federal government assistance.

Yes. I was agreeing with you.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Only 3 hours from decision to vaccination.

 

[kyle]

If you and others like you are finding pleasure for what the people of NSW are going through, then shame on you, Jon Faine and the other Victorians that you speculate share the view. Absolutely despicable.

While I don't find pleasure in NSW being locked down, I'm torn between barracking for NSW having fewer restrictions to prove the Vic Govt wrong and that Vic shouldn't get all the bad luck.

 

[jonboixxx]

Seems to me that when someone starts a new job there is a series of checklists to ensure they are oriented to the work environment. Things like payroll, Super Fund, bank account details, address, and so on. In the midst of a pandemic Is it too much to expect than when someone works in a Covid environment that vaccination isn't on that list?

Not too much to expect, but Fairwork!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

While the Sunbakers/Deer story was one of the stranger breaches of the lockdown, this one also is quite unusual.

NSW Police revealed more breaches of COVID public health orders, dishing out a $5000 to a tour company that drove three busloads of tourists to a zoo in the state's west yesterday.​

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About 9.30am yesterday police said the buses arrived at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo.​

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Of the 128 staff and guests involved, at least 76 were not permitted to travel outside Greater Sydney.​

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Staff at the zoo refused to allow the travellers off the buses and police were called.​

 

[justinbrett]

While I don't find pleasure in NSW being locked down, I'm torn between barracking for NSW having fewer restrictions to prove the Vic Govt wrong and that Vic shouldn't get all the bad luck.

I suggest just barracking for Australia, you don't have to choose based on state or political lines

 

[jonboixxx]

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk insisted she was “furious” that an unvaccinated hospital worker contracted COVID – yet her own government had not made the woman’s vaccination mandatory.

??

 

[jase05]

Possibly a new case in SA

 

[Pushka]

Possibly a new case in SA

Fingers already hovering on lockdown button

 

[justinbrett]

Fingers already hovering on lockdown button

Got to follow the crowd

 

[jakeseven7]

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk insisted she was “furious” that an unvaccinated hospital worker contracted COVID – yet her own government had not made the woman’s vaccination mandatory.

??

The QLD CHO strikes again. 4 more months until they are moved on.