Queensland - 0 community transmission. 2 cases in hotel quarantine.
Victoria - 0 community transmission. 7 in HQ acquired overseas.
NSW 6 community transmission.
Bit of a jump. Will be interesting to see if Vic still turn any Sydney hotspots to orange.
Victorian environment minister Lily DâAmbrosio said this morning that of the seven cases in hotel quarantine, three people were connected to the Australian Open, including an air crew member and two non-playing officials.
2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescuâs coach, Sylvain Bruneau, has confirmed he was the positive case from the flight from Abu Dhabi.
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Brisbane is no longer listed as a Commonwealth hotspot.
I have removed Greater Brisbane from its listing as a Commonwealth hotspot, effective from 12:01am on 17 January.
This is a time for the people of Brisbane to congratulate themselves for undertaking the short and sharp restrictions that have enabled public health officials to get ahead of the virus, backed up by consistent testing numbers. It is also a time to thank all staff at Queensland Health for their work in tracing contacts and getting to the stage where I am able to say there is low risk of transmission of the variant B.1.1.7 in Greater Brisbane.
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All 7 of the last 2 daysâ cases are one family.
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Questions should be asked about why it seems all 7 were not isolating. Other states have been asking close contacts of close contacts to isolate.
It will be interesting to see how the media treats this, itâs almost the exact scenario that Victoria was in in early october when 5 people in a house in the northern suburbs tested positive and Dan Andrews and the contact tracers were crucified for their incompetence and chaos. But in that case they had already been isolating for some time and were some of the last cases reported, so didnât spread it.
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I think 6 of the 7 are all in the one home - its VERY difficult to completely isolate in a home that you share with your spouse and children etc.
They werenât isolating at all, they were going to work and living their lives, one worked in a hospital.
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Was the 1st contact positive at that point though? The shifts worked at the hospital was the 12/13/14th Jan whilst the 1st positive was advised on the 16th⌠so did they do anything wrong?
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Is there something to be concerned about with the late release by DHHS?
That was my original point, everyone in that household was a close contacts of a close contacts, any other state would have had that household isolating regardless of whether the first one tested positive or not. If NSW are only asking the immediate close contacts to isolate it could go a long way to explain why it takes them so long to get their clusters under control.
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Victoriaâs latest numbers -
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Queensland - 0 new locally acquired cases. One acquired overseas in quarantine.
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The borders always changing reminds me of the first part of this kids song lol
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Premier says a number of big employers he spoke to prior to Christmas told him⌠staff surveys and worker feedback was that there was only appetite for 50% of workers coming back on site - whatever the health setting-Hedi Murphey twitter
iâd be surprised if over 1% of my work has an appetite to go back to the office
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the cho of VIC got asked would Melbourne and victoria ever go back into a hard lockdown:ââ I certainly hope not, we need to be ever vigilant, you can sometimes get clusters to emerge wheres there are unknown source cases and itâs geographically spread and the numbers are all of a sudden,20,30,40 cases a day , if that occurs, we had to have that on the table as one of the tools, but it is clear that we got on top of the black rock cluster by virtue of the primary and secondary close contacts quarantining, that works every well, yes a lot of people were in quartine, but the rest of Melbourne and victoria really carried on as per normal