Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[drron]

As a Tas resident, I can transit MEL airport, or even drive through Vic directly, say onto the boat and the requirement will be to isolate at home. If I really want to travel (say to AFF in December, if the restrictions continue), I am OK with 2 weeks at home afterwards.

Each state has got some increasingly stupid rules. Tasmania's is the blanket travel restriction, forecast for 3 more months, irrespective if you are flying direct from say WA or SA (if WA was possible) and the maintenance of the State of Emergency, even when no community transmission for 3+ months, "in case...". The media here has been trying to find out what exactly the 'health advice' is such that coming in from SA isn't allowed without 2 weeks iso, but all they get is the blanket weasel words. Actually, it seems because SA allows returnees from the dreaded QLD. Pushka, they are looking at you!

The more this goes on, the more all the Premiers getting used to exercising arbitrary power in the name of COVID control. 'Mussolini' and 'Gutwein' are being mentioned in the same breath down here.

Absolutely crazy.
As an Essential traveller I now see if I come to Tassie I don't need to self isolate although now required to wear a mask at all times when working but not outside of work.
But if I come as a simple tourist they will let me in as long as I don't transit Melbourne but have to undergo 2 weeks Government provided quarantine at a cost of $2800.
But say a Tasmanian comes and stays with us here in QLD and we fly back on the same plane they can self isolate at home.Why is the risk different?

 

[Hvr]

But say a Tasmanian comes and stays with us here in QLD and we fly back on the same plane they can self isolate at home.Why is the risk different?

Family connections?

 

[dajop]

Don't know if it's a result of catching up with recovery data, or a data entry error (presumably the former), but Covidlive website is reporting a drop in the number of active cases in Victoria today of 2291. If correct, that's (perhaps expected) good news.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Why is the risk different?

Perhaps they consider residents more trustworthy or able to self isolate.....

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

NSW total Community transmission since before Crossroads is 23 today. First time above 20 I believe. 12 in the past 14 days, 11 more than 14 days

 

[DC3]

And it’s not just the young ones who are creating mischief. This 68 year old woman was foolish enough to brag about her multi-state journey on Facebook:

Border hoppers face court

A Perth couple posted online about their attempts to cross interstate borders during the coronavirus pandemic.

www.news.com.au

Back in court next month.

Edited

 

[Pushka]

And it’s not just the young ones who are creating mischief. This 68 year old woman was foolish enough to brag about her multi-state journey on Facebook:

Border hoppers face court

A Perth couple posted online about their attempts to cross interstate borders during the coronavirus pandemic.

www.news.com.au

Back in court next month.

Edited

Incomprehensible really.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Absolutely crazy.
As an Essential traveller I now see if I come to Tassie I don't need to self isolate although now required to wear a mask at all times when working but not outside of work.
But if I come as a simple tourist they will let me in as long as I don't transit Melbourne but have to undergo 2 weeks Government provided quarantine at a cost of $2800.
But say a Tasmanian comes and stays with us here in QLD and we fly back on the same plane they can self isolate at home.Why is the risk different?

Clear as day breach of the constitution.

A subject of the Queen, resident in any State, shall not be subject in any other State to any disability or discrimination which would not be equally applicable to him if he were a subject of the Queen resident in such other State.

 

[VPS]

$5000 is not enough

Women admit skipping hotel quarantine and avoid jail but say there was no party

A South Australian woman receives a suspended prison term and a Queensland woman is fined after they flew into Perth without permission and escaped from hotel quarantine to go to an alleged party.

www.abc.net.au

 

[DC3]

The two Adelaide ladies who absconded from iso at a Perth hotel have had their day in court. One received a fine, the other had a prison sentence suspended.

Women who escaped hotel quarantine to 'party with Perth rapper' narrowly avoid jail

Edit: Ah. VPS beat me to it.


Perth rapper surprised that they turned up:

Young Adelaide women 'breached hotel quarantine' to party with Perth rapper

"I didn't even know they were coming because they told us they wouldn't be allowed to come ... and then they just rocked up," Perth rapper Siri Kidd said.

www.watoday.com.au

 

[Flashback]

Ankle bracelets may be required. Who is high risk? It's a very wide net .... those with criminal records, and .... and ...... need to be careful not to discriminate e.g. late teens / early 20's would be considered high risk? Good luck getting away with that without people speaking up.

WA Premier reveals plan to make people in hotel quarantine wear monitoring bracelets

Days after two women allegedly breached hotel quarantine to attend a party, WA Premier Mark McGowan revealed he wants to force people who presented a flight risk or had a criminal history to wear a monitoring bracelet.

www.watoday.com.au

What's more interesting, is the talk about moving forward tracking people intrastate, similar to what happens in the US now.

 

[Pushka]

The two Adelaide ladies who absconded from iso at a Perth hotel have had their day in court. One received a fine, the other had a prison sentence suspended.

Women who escaped hotel quarantine to 'party with Perth rapper' narrowly avoid jail

Edit: Ah. VPS beat me to it.


Perth rapper surprised that they turned up:

Young Adelaide women 'breached hotel quarantine' to party with Perth rapper

"I didn't even know they were coming because they told us they wouldn't be allowed to come ... and then they just rocked up," Perth rapper Siri Kidd said.

www.watoday.com.au

One is from Qld

 

[DC3]

One is from Qld

Wow. She gets around doesn’t she?

Edit: I should have known. Party girl, led astray by the Adelaide lady?

 

[Flying mermaid]

Don't know if it's a result of catching up with recovery data, or a data entry error (presumably the former), but Covidlive website is reporting a drop in the number of active cases in Victoria today of 2291. If correct, that's (perhaps expected) good news.

They explained that on the press conference this morning. Before someone is let out of iso and marked as recovered they have to be assessed by a health team. Someone who was very ill might need to be tested again, otherwise it’s 3 days after the last symptom or 10 days from onset (presumably whichever is the later). So it’s just taken time for people to have been assessed and the data released.

 

[RooFlyer]

The Inquiry into the Victorian Hotel Quarantine fiasco is bopping along and daily showing why the program, led by 'Global Victoria', with help from other various agencies turned out as it did.

Victorian coronavirus hotel quarantine inquiry told DHHS staff ignored suicide threats, lost track of guests at ParkRoyal

Health officials lost track of returned travellers staying in Melbourne's hotel quarantine scheme and threats of suicide were dismissed, according to a nurse giving evidence at an inquiry into the botched program.

Meanwhile, a Melbourne lawyer who stayed at the Rydges Hotel has revealed images showing the filthy room he and his family were asked to stay in, which included discarded gloves on the floor, scraps of food and a blood-stained doona.

The nurse, identified only as "Jen" for legal reasons, also told the inquiry confidential nursing notes had been "destroyed" and thrown into a cardboard box.

Jen, who was hired through a nursing agency to work at the ParkRoyal hotel at Melbourne Airport, said she resorted to keeping her own spreadsheets of where up to 300 guests were being kept because of inconsistent record keeping by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the hotel.
...
Michael Tait, a nurse with nearly 20 years' experience, told the inquiry he was also hired by the same agency as Jen and was deployed to the Crown Metropol and Promenade hotels.

In his witness statement, Mr Tait claimed there was an incident where "a positive patient was left waiting in the hotel lobby for almost two hours without a mask on".

"She was just standing there waiting to be transferred to her home (by ambulance) in the country," he said.

"She was supposed to leave the hotel at noon but didn't leave until 22:00.

"There were five security guards just standing around and other people coming and going to the lobby."

Read the whole article.

 

[jase05]

Having thought about it more, I don’t understand why any State refuse entry from any location if the traveller is ok to pay for mandatory quarantine. Economically the hotel gets paid, the risk of transmission is mitigated. All win?

I would guess there wouldn’t be enough resources to cover all the hotels that would be required. Take Adelaide for example, with only a few hotels used for quarantine it’s far easier to keep track of returned travellers and provide adequate security. We are already seeing breaches in most if not all states so logic says the more hotels you are guarding or have to provide support for the more chance of future breaches

 

[DC3]

Ankle bracelets may be required. Who is high risk? It's a very wide net .... those with criminal records, and .... and ...... need to be careful not to discriminate e.g. late teens / early 20's would be considered high risk? ....

Yes, a very wide net is needed. And not just the younger ones. There’s the case of the 68 year old woman and her partner from Perth (upthread) who devised Plans A, B and C to cross state borders and into SE QLD. There’s quite a range of potential risk-takers.

 

[jakeseven7]

Yes, a very wide net is needed. And not just the younger ones. There’s the case of the 68 year old woman and her partner from Perth (upthread) who devised Plans A, B and C to cross state borders and into SE QLD. There’s quite a range of potential risk-takers.

Yup with a virus that has such a low mortality rate amongst most cohorts, there are always going to be some people who will never take it seriously unfortunately. This has played out all over Australia.

 

[N860CR]

I can’t say I make a habit of reading tabloid media, but I cannot believe 7 News published the full name of the lady in Brisbane who has ended up with the virus and then a quote from AP attacking her stating she “went to work knowing she had symptoms and now we’ve got a lot of work to do” (or something along those lines).

That’s a serious new low, even by the standards of both parties above.

 

[DC3]

It’s hard to believe that someone would be going into work while showing symptoms, over 5 days. I hope that is incorrect.

There’s been so much information provided about not to do this.