Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[bcworld]

Wait, so where did this other variant come from?

Jervis Bay connection. I'm going for hotel quarantine exempt ACT diplomat.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Wait, so where did this other variant come from?

Not yet known, but it was stated that it has not been gnomically linked as yet to any other case. This would include those that have tested positive in HQ (returned travellers and aircrew)..

 

[justinbrett]

Now's the time for NSW to be emphasising that Jervis Bay Territory is not part of NSW.

ACT listed JBT as part of NSW in their contact tracing - it's more a part of ACT than NSW.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

ABC NEWS

SA Medi hotel= Entire floor moved to another facility as 2 year old tested positive. Child tested in hallway of hotel

 

[jase05]

ABC NEWS

SA Medi hotel= Entire floor moved to another facility as 2 year old tested positive. Child tested in hallway of hotel

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[Lynda2475]

I'm confused, has the virus evolved to jump between strangers instead of just between friends?

And again after being called on the inaccuracy, Vic have back tracked and admitted it is not new.

Jeroen Weimar "So we're not saying it's massively different but we are saying that is a feature and a dynamic of this particular outbreak."

 

[jakeseven7]

Whoopsies

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Quarantined travellers being moved from Adelaide's Peppers Waymouth Hotel after toddler coronavirus case​

An SA Health spokesperson said the guests were moved because of fears of a possible risk of transmission after the toddler spent longer in a hallway at the hotel than expected while being tested.

Mother of toddler with COVID-19 tests positive to virus, medi-hotel floor evacuated

A floor of an Adelaide medi-hotel is evacuated after a two-year-old who had been on the same level tested positive for coronavirus.

www.abc.net.au

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Just on testing.

• Since Wollert Man 1 in 11 Victorians have had Covid tests.
• Since the Whittlesea Outbreak was identified 1 in 13 Victorians have had Covid tests.

That is a pretty massive testing rate.

Now as most people who got tested would be symptomatic, or had been to exposure sites, or live near exposure sites that a very high proportion of people who are more likely to have been exposed will have presented for testing.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

So just on the Jervis Bay Camping Trip.

When did they leave Melbourne? Very early on 19th May or?

Wednesday 19 May 2021 they were in Gundagai and Goulburn, and were camped from 19 May - 24 May.

24 May returned to Melbourne.

25 May father became symptomatic. Incubation period is commonly 5 days, but can be more or less. The Kappa variant in Melbourne has certainly had many with a lot less. So transmission is certainly feasible while he was away. Though may have been from his wife?

I don't think it has yet been confirmed which member of the family was infected first.

Lockdown restrictions commenced at 11.59 27 May (So basically from 29th on)

31 May father tests positive.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

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Jeroen Weimar in full rather than one selected sentence.

Outbreak’s behaviour has changed: Weimar​

By Kate Rose, The Age​

COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar has highlighted the different pattern of transmission in this outbreak compared to previous ones, emphasising the reduced interactions prior to positive tests.​

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In the past, he said, the benchmark was 15 minutes minimum of close indoor contact and outbreaks usually spread from superspreader events.​

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So we have eight cases at five different public exposure sites and I think as I’ve, as we’ve discussed in the last few days, each of these outbreaks that we’ve seen over the last 12 months and solving the ones we’ve been dealing with over this last year and the end of last year, they all have their own profile, or dynamic or have their own characteristics,” Mr Weimar said.​

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“Like the Black Rock one which focused around a restaurant, a gathering in a restaurant that was a super spreader event that seeded out, followed by household transmission. With a Holiday Inn, we have again a super spreader event at a private party venue and again followed on by household transmission.​

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“This particular outbreak at the moment, insofar as we have it right now, what is typifying it is, of course, there’s a lot of household contacts, some business and social contact, we remember the workplace at Stratton finance, but also these eight cases of casual contact, where people didn’t know each other, were not aware of encountering each other, and the transmission of COVID.​

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“So we’re not saying it’s massively different but we are saying there’s a feature and a dynamic of this bigger outbreak.”​

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Mr Weimar said Victoria’s 477,000 tests over the past week were providing invaluable information about the spread, and urged people to keep getting tested.​

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“That’s exactly what we need to see if we’re going to be ... together as a community and we’re very pleased about that and it gives us more intelligence, and ultimately more confidence about how these outbreaks are going.”​

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As it happened: Delta variant detected in Melbourne as state records four new local cases; Deal reached on quarantine facility

Regional Victoria will be waking up to eased restrictions, as Melbourne faces at least one more week of lockdown despite the reclassification of two cases of fleeting transmission as false positives.

www.theage.com.au

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So 8 out of 65 cases have stemmed from very casual contact (previously poorly referred to as "stranger" cases). Also exposure in these casual cases has often been less in a limited duration of under 15 minutes. Hence the fleeting reference used in recent days.

This ease of transmission in this proportion has not been a feature in the previous outbreaks where transmission from brief exposure was rare, and moreso transmission where there was not a direct communication or fixed proximity link was even rarer.

Cases like those Berala BWS or Butcher club the brief interchanges were aware of the person that they caught the virus from, and they had a direct interaction with them.

 

[justinbrett]

Does anyone know why Queensland did report any test results for a week? In any case 21K for a week is only 3K a day - quite terrible.

 

[bcworld]

Does anyone know why Queensland did report any test results for a week? In any case 21K for a week is only 3K a day - quite terrible.
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Every day the premier says the numbers are delayed. This was an interesting update though!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1399529476132769795

 

[justinbrett]

Every day the premier says the numbers are delayed. This was an interesting update though!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1399529476132769795

Does a five year old operate her twitter account? Those two clauses in that sentence have nothing to do with each other.

And since when was the advice to get tested "when sick"? I'm pretty sure it's if you develop cold/flu symptoms...

What a joke.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Jervis Bay connection. I'm going for hotel quarantine exempt ACT diplomat.

I have been surprised that it hasn’t happened - they are not known for doing the right thing……

 

[jakeseven7]

Does anyone know why Queensland did report any test results for a week? In any case 21K for a week is only 3K a day - quite terrible.
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Because they are embarrassed

 

[SydneySwan]

Since WHO tried to depoliticize the various Covid variants by using Greek letters instead of countries we have reached Kappa which is tenth in the Greek alphabet.

Alpha - UK or Kent
Beta - South African
Gamma - Brazilian P1
Delta - Indian
Epsilon - US B1427/9
Zeta - Brazilian P2
Eta - Brazilian B1525
Theta - Philippines
Iota - US B1526
Kappa - Indian

The original Covid from Wuhan is not a variant and so does not have a Greek letter.

I never expected that studying classical Greek at school would ever prove useful but there again I never anticipated Covid either. The next letters are; Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi before getting to the last and 24th letter Omega.

Variants seem to be coming thick and fast now so we could easily get to Omega. Do we then move onto the Latin alphabet?

 

[Seat0B]

I have been surprised that it hasn’t happened - they are not known fir doing the right thing……

ooh careful now, you will be flamed for saying that, if my experience is anything to go by - even though it is true enough IMO!

 

[justinbrett]

Since WHO tried to depoliticize the various Covid variants by using Greek letters instead of countries we have reached Kappa which is tenth in the Greek alphabet.

Alpha - UK or Kent
Beta - South African
Gamma - Brazilian P1
Delta - Indian
Epsilon - US B1427/9
Zeta - Brazilian P2
Eta - Brazilian B1525
Theta - Philippines
Iota - US B1526
Kappa - Indian

The original Covid from Wuhan is not a variant and so does not have a Greek letter.

I never expected that studying classical Greek at school would ever prove useful but there again I never anticipated Covid either. The next letters are; Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi before getting to the last and 24th letter Omega.

Variants seem to be coming thick and fast now so we could easily get to Omega. Do we then move onto the Latin alphabet?

I never thought watching so many movies about US frat houses would be useful either

 

[trevella]

Variants seem to be coming thick and fast now so we could easily get to Omega. Do we then move onto the Latin alphabet?

We move on to COVID-22.

 

[SydneySwan]

We move on to COVID-22.

That reminds me of some American Trump supporter interviewed on TV by a roving reporter explaining why Covid 19 was a hoax. He said that it was obvious as they never made any fuss about Covids 1 to 18!