Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[Bundy Bear]

Royal Commission! Inquiry!

SA is Victoria 3.


Sunday 15 November at 1:48 PM

Isnt it great that this thread is starting to slow down.

Well that didn't take long like 24 hours and back to warp speed.

 

[I love to travel]

CHO also said no new cases yet and was using very moderate language. I am picking up the underlying current that they think they have it in hand.PM was very restrained too.

 

[drron]

Well in the part of Tasmania I am working in they are still doing OK. The pub I went to last night enforced QR scan and sign in.
The Northwest was hit pretty hard first time around.

 

[RAM]

Just heard an interview of the local CEO for the Anglicare Nursing Homes in Adelaide (one of which is at risk due to +ve worker from family).

She sounded quite considered & rattled off a number of precautions they are taking as well as what sounds like the gold standard IMHO - SA Govt sends any +ve case in a nursing home/aged care to hospital. None will be left in the nursing home/aged care facility.

Really hope that the mistakes made in other locations have really been noted & learnt from.

 

[OrangeRoughie]

CHO also said no new cases yet and was using very moderate language. I am picking up the underlying current that they think they have it in hand.PM was very restrained too.

That is the exact vibe I was picking up, I sure hope they are correct if that is indeed how they are feeling

 

[Carrots]

Oh wow, SA CHO just admitted that private security guards are being used in hotel quarantine in SA...

Royal Commission! Inquiry!

Thankfully it's been hand in hand with SA Police.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

SA is Victoria 3.

No thank you. We wish to keep out of the Third Wave.

 

[jb747]

Adelaide Advertiser reporting 5 hour waits at testing clinic and Adelaide Airport in chaos.

Surely that’s part of the madness. Testing should be easily undertaken, and wait time simply should not be approaching that. That’s something that should have been part of the planning whilst they were watching Victoria...

I hope state premiers are proud of themselves.

Oh, I’m sure they are. I’d just love to hear if they have the slightest idea of how they’ll handle the economic issues. Nobody is going to be booking anything, to anywhere, if borders are going to slam closed like this. I’m even rethinking the relatively close drive I had planned to NSW/ACT for when the walls come down.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Surely that’s part of the madness. Testing should be easily undertaken, and wait time simply should not be approaching that. That’s something that should have been part of the planning whilst they were watching Victoria...

yeah I posted in another thread that testing takes way too long. When I went for my test at a major hospital there were three stations you had to pass through. At each station was a full ID check (name, date of birth, address), then you finally tale the test. The staff exhibited no sense of urgency either - which I guess it's hard to blame them given they probably do this day in, day out.

I dunno why they can't just swipe the medicare card, give you the test kit, and off you go.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Oh, I’m sure they are. I’d just love to hear if they have the slightest idea of how they’ll handle the economic issues. Nobody is going to be booking anything, to anywhere, if borders are going to slam closed like this.

They either don't care or are too stupid to see the bigger picture. Probably both. Disgusting and disgraceful people.

 

[VPS]

yeah I posted in another thread that testing takes way too long. When I went for my test at a major hospital there were three stations you had to pass through. At each station was a full ID check (name, date of birth, address), then you finally tale the test. The staff exhibited no sense of urgency either - which I guess it's hard to blame them given they probably do this day in, day out.

I dunno why they can't just swipe the medicare card, give you the test kit, and off you go.

When you are doing that sort of thing you can't rush around. You need to take your time and get it correct. If they rushed through and got someone's results mixed up or the wrong ID, I can imagine the clamour that would arise.

They are ramping up the testing sites

 

[MEL_Traveller]

When you are doing that sort of thing you can't rush around. You need to take your time and get it correct. If they rushed through and got someone's results mixed up or the wrong ID, I can imagine the clamour that would arise.

They are ramping up the testing sites

Ok... let's entertain that for a minute... testing at the major hospital pop-up entailed the following:

1. line up at station 1, give your name, DOB, address. Staff taps into the computer, confirms your name, DOB, address, prints off an A4 page with your details on it. Your details are in address label format, but just printed, not actual labels.
2. line up at station 2. Give your name, DOB, address. Your A4 piece of paper goes into a bin at the desk. You are given another piece of paper, but this time with actual sticky labels. You are given your test kit.
3. line up at station 3. Give your name, DOB, address. Hand staff your test kit and they peel off a label and stick it on the test kit. You then do the test.
4. complete the test and throw the rest of the A4 sheet of paper out. Get told to go home and isolate, etc.

So you come into contact with 5 separate staff... the security guard for the queue, staff at station 1, station 2, the nurse at station 3, and then the final staff member on exit.

Stations 1 & 2 could be combined. Unnecessary duplication.

Ideally it could be a swipe of the medicare card, labels printed, given test kit all at station 1. Station 2 is your test and get told to isolate while they are doing the test. Off you go. Reducing the number of stations could mean doubling the tests.

 

[kyle]

Ok... let's entertain that for a minute... testing at the major hospital pop-up entailed the following:

1. line up at station 1, give your name, DOB, address. Staff taps into the computer, confirms your name, DOB, address, prints off an A4 page with your details on it. Your details are in address label format, but just printed, not actual labels.
2. line up at station 2. Give your name, DOB, address. Your A4 piece of paper goes into a bin at the desk. You are given another piece of paper, but this time with actual sticky labels. You are given your test kit.
3. line up at station 3. Give your name, DOB, address. Hand staff your test kit and they peel off a label and stick it on the test kit. You then do the test.
4. complete the test and throw the rest of the A4 sheet of paper out. Get told to go home and isolate, etc.

So you come into contact with 5 separate staff... the security guard for the queue, staff at station 1, station 2, the nurse at station 3, and then the final staff member on exit.

Stations 1 & 2 could be combined. Unnecessary duplication.

Ideally it could be a swipe of the medicare card, labels printed, given test kit all at station 1. Station 2 is your test and get told to isolate while they are doing the test. Off you go. Reducing the number of stations could mean doubling the tests.

Sounds like the Japanese way of doing things! Slow as!

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Ok... let's entertain that for a minute... testing at the major hospital pop-up entailed the following:

1. line up at station 1, give your name, DOB, address. Staff taps into the computer, confirms your name, DOB, address, prints off an A4 page with your details on it. Your details are in address label format, but just printed, not actual labels.
2. line up at station 2. Give your name, DOB, address. Your A4 piece of paper goes into a bin at the desk. You are given another piece of paper, but this time with actual sticky labels. You are given your test kit.
3. line up at station 3. Give your name, DOB, address. Hand staff your test kit and they peel off a label and stick it on the test kit. You then do the test.
4. complete the test and throw the rest of the A4 sheet of paper out. Get told to go home and isolate, etc.

So you come into contact with 5 separate staff... the security guard for the queue, staff at station 1, station 2, the nurse at station 3, and then the final staff member on exit.

Stations 1 & 2 could be combined. Unnecessary duplication.

Ideally it could be a swipe of the medicare card, labels printed, given test kit all at station 1. Station 2 is your test and get told to isolate while they are doing the test. Off you go. Reducing the number of stations could mean doubling the tests.

Others experience of a PCR maybe different. I’ve had a drive through and a permanent pop up clinic (It popped up and stayed lol).

Drive through. manned by two staff. Approach testing point ask for details by one of the two. The persons records the information and then comes back to do the test and stick on labels,show the test labels and then you are gone. Contact 1 staff member only.

pop up. Maybe 4 staff on duty. Made appointment before hand. Arrived to join a queue of about 15, all with appointments. Greeted at door By 1 staff. shown to one of four testing room. Sample Happened to be collected by person who greeted at door.

 

[nutwood]

Situation is quite weird. I've been travelling back and forth from Tasmania to NSW and SA for months. Every time I come back to Tassie I'm treated as though I'm a high COVID risk, even though I've come from places that have millions of people without COVID just living their lives.
Now SA has a cluster I have to apply for a new G2G pass. Apparently the way you treat places when you are pretending they are a risk is different to the way you treat them when they have an active cluster.

 

[RooFlyer]

Now SA has a cluster I have to apply for a new G2G pass. Apparently the way you treat places when you are pretending they are a risk is different to the way you treat them when they have an active cluster.

Is that still the case since Monday afternoon when SA was declared medium risk, on the Tas scale?

 

[jakeseven7]

Interesting to see the different responses of the big 3 states to SA...

- Vic offers to help in any way big or small, several times
- NSW pledges to stay open unless situation deteriorates, says we can’t keep cutting people and businesses off every time there are cases
- QLD slams borders shut and goes ahead and doubles public gathering sizes

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Only one case in SA today :


Reports of only one new case in SA, a close contact of the family cluster.
@SkyNewsAust

 

[Pushka]

An update from the Premier today. Of the 5000 tests yesterday until cut off (?) just 1 new case, and that is from a close contact they think. Early days of course, still another long haul to wait. All testing stations that open at 8am had queues starting at around 4am. I believe there was a festival over the weekend, and the people involved seem to have shopped at quite a few locations in suburban Adelaide.

Must thank the Fed Govt - ADF, NSW Government and Victorian Government for their support at this time.

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Only one case in SA today :

Snap. Long ways to go but we will take that.

 

[Flashback]

Interesting to see the different responses of the big 3 states to SA...

- Vic offers to help in any way big or small, several times
- NSW pledges to stay open unless situation deteriorates, says we can’t keep cutting people and businesses off every time there are cases
- QLD slams borders shut and goes ahead and doubles public gathering sizes

Very sensible / realistic approach from NSW.