Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[jase05]

Has NSW released information on genome testing or linked where the removalists caught the virus?
I haven’t seen that mentioned yet

 

[lovetravellingoz]

111 cases confirmed

82 thousand tests!

29 infectious in the community.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1416201180435214337

 

[bcworld]

29 and the rest....the follow up tweets with info on partials are missing so far.

 

[jase05]

Hopefully the mole is caught and loses their job over it

 

[kpc]

If he is accurate again, he has an inside source....

Hope they find and sack the inside source!

 

[get me outta here]

Yes lift and corridors in the apartment building may have poor ventilation and so could yes be a factor.


I think another factor is that just as some people spread the virus more easily, that other people are probably more prone to getting infected.

The apartment building also had a bigger pool of people who could get infected. Of note is that the actual client has not yet become infected

I heard that the client was the only one wearing a mask.

 

[bcworld]

Super-hard lockdown!

 

[kpc]

Wow...only Health and Emergency workers are now allowed to leave Fairfield, Liverpool and Canterbury /Bankstown LGA til July 30. Only critical retail allowed to open in Sydney. All construction is now paused till July 30!!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Super-hard lockdown!

Yes.


Though while an "essential" retail list was not possible, evidently a today a "critical" retail list was possible.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

All construction is now paused till July 30!!

Just as at the height of the cases in Vic. There have been a number of construction related clusters in Sydney so far. Two with extended days.

 

[bcworld]

Though while an "essential" retail list was not possible, evidently a today a "critical" retail list was possible.

There must have been a change in the "health advice".

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Dr Chant: Another death in Sydney. Man in his 80's.


Six people are on ventilation.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1416204036894650369

 

[kpc]

Yes.


Though while an "essential" retail list was not possible, evidently a today a "critical" retail list was possible.

Retail stores except for a handful of exceptions will be required to close from midnight tonight, while there will be a pause on “all construction” that is not urgent. The new rules apply to all of Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour.

The retail exceptions include:

SupermarketsStores selling medical suppliesPharmaciesPetrol stationsCar hireBanks and financial institutionsHardware stores and nurseriesAgricultural supply storesPet supply storesPost offices and news agentsOffice supplies

 

[OATEK]

Yes.


Though while an "essential" retail list was not possible, evidently a today a "critical" retail list was possible.

Because they did not want to proscribe, not because they could not do so.

 

[Anna]

SA Presser : SA confirms that the removalists spent 5 hours with the family = "dodged bullet"

I wasn't watching it and as usual there is nothing to be found on the SA Health website yet. The 5 hours spent with the family was only about a week ago. Who is saying 'dodged bullet'? Is that the SA Health position? Because I thought 14 days was the danger period, not just a week?

My acute interest is because I am supposed to be going to NZ week after next, but if cases appear in SA Jacinda will no doubt burst the bubble again and stop me (again) from going.

 

[bcworld]

Dr Chant: Another death in Sydney. Man in his 80's.

Surprised the premier didn't see fit to mention that and left it the CHO.

 

[jase05]

Better late than never Gladys

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Infectious in the community = 39 cases (plus there are 3 unknown as are under investigation)
With Delta generations within 48hours occurring I do not know why the Gladys keeps running with the lower infectious in the community number each day, rather that the total infectious in the community number.


Source of 52 of the cases is currently unknown ...and remember these are case as of 8PM last night. So almost half of new cases are unlinked 15 hours later = not good at all.

 

[SydneySwan]

Hopefully the mole is caught and loses their job over it

I don’t understand why we have to wait 15 hours for what is then outdated information. Why can’t the NSW Government publish the figures first thing in the morning?

 

[hydrabyss]

Regardless, there's no precedence for it, and if there weren't restrictions already then you'd be introducing them, so I'm wondering what you think the trigger is for an adjacent state to introduce or retain restrictions locally when another state has an outbreak, and why we wouldn't be worrying about QLD or SA not responding to NSW's outbreak right now by introducing restrictions (relative to the NSW outbreak, not relative to the local QLD cases currently)?

I mean, it sounds a lot like asking why didn't VIC predict the future to me. You'd have had stricter restrictions within VIC which is 7 hours away by road than you have today in the ACT, totally enveloped by NSW. How would that have been explained to the 6.7 million affected Victorians? Genuinely curious. Would you have had the restrictions run until Sydney's lockdown is over, or would you have guessed some maskless removalists would have crossed into the state around the time they did?

It was not hard to predict that the Delta variant would make it from NSW to Vic considering all the previous outbreaks had done the same. Difference this time Dan Andrews may be right in a quick lockdown as NSW is not doing to well using their previous model for stopping the spread. Plus I heard him say the other day they have "elite" contact tracers which may be better than the gold standard and may see the lockdown end before NSW.