Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[Lynda2475]

The NT only has a population of 250,000 spread over a vast area. So I would not be too harsh on their ability do things. It would a difficult task with such a small resource to draw upon.

Understand that, however majority of NSW visitors would be air arrivals via Darwin or Alice Springs or Uluru. And Howard Sprngs facility is just outside of Darwin, so should have resoruces on hand who are trained and ready to take swabs.

Its highly unlikey there are loads of Sydneysiders driving around the remote regions of the NT at this time of year, being that its low/wet season. Most viistors would have been travelling to see family and the majority of people in the NT live in Darwin, Katherine or the Alice.

NT got a wakeup call when Adeliade was locked down, as they coudlnt even acocmodate all the passengers from 2 flights into Alice Springs, this is weeks later, they have had a practice run, I would like to see states and territories stepping up their capablities as this problem is going to be with us for years.

 

[Lynda2475]

And by definition a tweet by the DHHS cannot be a leak

And i never said those were a leak, I just noted regular time gap between published data and pressers in Victoria. The 8am thing started in August, so yes later in the year but MEL was still in lockdown well beyond that and it certainly wasnt fully under control when the practice started.

However, this does not occur in NSW, the website and official tweets always come out after the 11am press conference. So fact that NEWS.com.au published the 7+1 number on their website yesterday a full 15 mins before the presser means it was leaked/shared before official release. I checked NSW twitter and NSW Health site as soon as I read it on News.com.au and the info wasnt there yet.

 

[milehighclub]

In one of the NSW press conference, there was a similar question on Qantas using Northern Beaches staff during this hotspot declaration, which I think started 5pm 17/12. I think NSW Premier said something along the lines of use common sense whether to keep doing that.

QF staff from NB were removed from all their duties.

 

[Pushka]

News reporting NT struggling to cope with surge in testing because there were a mere 700 tests on Monday, results taking 48 hours or longer. With the Howard Springs arrangement i would think they should have better test processes in place. Individual testing locations in Sydney were taking 2500 swabs and even with 40k+ tests most are getting results within 24 hours.

Seeing WA, SA, NT, ACT and QLD struggle to test their Sydney visitors should be a huge wake up call. These states/territories have had months and months to get their rapid response plans in place but still struggle to do a couple of thousand tests in a timely manner. People should be thankful this latest cluster is in NSW where our tracers and test resources are battle hardened, because clearly many are still not ready to mobilise many resources quickly to do required testing.

Where have you seen SA is struggling? Family got tested easily this week and results back within 12 hours.

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Then why the struggle now to have sufficient test teams at airport and border crossings to test NSW visitors? All states need to be set up to rapidly deploy teams. No state should be turning away NSW visitors from being tested as has happened in Qld and ACT.

WA and QLD changed arrival policy without mobilising resources to facilitate the new policy. WA put a 24hr deadline on tests then had to push that out to 3 days cause they couldn't test everyone in that first 24 hours.

NSW doesnt have a declared state of emmergency and can get pop up clinics manned super quickly. WA is in a state of emmergency and cant. Still too much reliance on whole state border closures because still not ready to test, track and treat en masse.

That was on Sunday when confusion occurred about the timing of the restriction so they weren’t set up. It’s fine now. I have not read that anyone got turned away in SA in recent days. And the media at the moment are hungry for a panic headline so I’m sure they would be on to it. SA sets up pop up clinics within a day of announcing a contact site. And we did after all curb a recent outbreak that could have been our second wave and as reported by @jase05 resulted in 19,000 tests in a day of which I was one and results through by the end of that day.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

The NT only has a population of 250,000 spread over a vast area. So I would not be too harsh on their ability do things. It would a difficult task with such a small resource to draw upon.

Also a difficult time of year coming up to the holidays and new years. Lots of people will be on, or about to take leave. Recalling people from leave to test residents is one thing, but to recall people to test visitors is a big ask perhaps.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Also a difficult time of year coming up to the holidays and new years. Lots of people will be on, or about to take leave. Recalling people from leave to test residents is one thing, but to recall people to test visitors is a big ask perhaps.

Not sure about NT, but most places would have 24/7 health protocols, including all public holidays and popular holiday periods.

 

[Lynda2475]

Recalling people from leave to test residents is one thing, but to recall people to test visitors is a big ask perhaps.

Its very sad if this Queensland attitude is spreading to the NT.

Given that people cant travel overseas this year, what Im seeing is people looking for any excuse to not be forced to take leave over xmas and save it for when things open up. Being able to work through xmas period is always really popular. I would hope that hospitals and testing centres are properly staffed irrespective of what time of year it is.

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42k tests in NSW yesterday. 8 new cases, 7 linked to Avlaon and 1 linked to the medical worker (as mentioned yesterday).

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

42k tested in NSW

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8 cases, 7 linked to cluster. 8th a contact of the positive arising from quarantine nurse

 

[Lynda2475]

NSW Restriction updates:

No changes in regional areas.

In Greater Sydney 10 people in your home remains except on 24/25/26th kids under 12 wont count in the 10 limit. That is 10 in total across the day, not at a time.

Northern Beaches being LGA beign split in 2:

• Northern part (north of Narebeen bridge and east of Bahai Temple) will remain in lockdown. On 24/25/26th can have 5 people in your home but only if from the same isolation zone / community.

• Southern part (i.e. Manly) on 24/25/26 can have 10 people in your home, but you still cant leave the area.

 

[jase05]

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I thought there was an article at the time stating we hit 19k in one day. Obviously not. I still say 17,406 is excellent for the size of the city and would be one of the highest per capita rates in Australia

 

[Pushka]

The cars across the water are at our local testing place. They will all get tested within the hour.

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I thought there was an article at the time stating we hit 19k in one day. Obviously not. I still say 17,406 is excellent for the size of the city and would be one of the highest per capita rates in Australia

I also heard 19,000 too. That must have been the figure our local media were given.

 

[Lynda2475]

Also from 1st of January all hospitality businesses and beauty business (hairdressers etc) need to move the Service NSW QR code system, and cease using private systems.

A personal obseravtion to date, of everywhere ive been in NSW I''ve only seen one place that uses the service NSW one and that was Myer. Most places had QR codes months before then. So majorty of businesses will need to change their systems.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Sydney zoned into 3 with moderate relaxations in households 24-26/12

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Quarantine nurse yesterday is epidemiologically linked to Avalon?!?!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

. 8th a contact of the positive arising from quarantine nurse

Yes that is the one announced last night who had been to Orange.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

QF flight attendant positive and went toDarwin?!?!

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Just stated at the NSW Presser. Qantas staff member positive who had flown in from overseas. Also flew back domestically on a flight from Darwin to Sydney.

 

[I love to travel]

QF staff member position. Flew from Darwin to Sydney

 

[Lynda2475]

However Dr Chant just said that genomic results show the medical worker who was transporting positive overseas cases and her colleague who then travelled to Orange atually have the avalon strain and not the strain of the passengers they were transporting. They just havent worked out how they were exposed to Valon cluster.

So its good that not another quarntine breach, just hope they quickly link these two.

 

[blackcat20]

Went to an ultrasound clinic this morning and they had a Vic government check in app in operation.