278 new cases in Victoria today. 8 deaths.
Things starting to look a bit better. Huge drop in cases week on week.
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That is a great day in Victoria compared to recent weeks. Hopefully those numbers can be driven down further over the next 5 days. Although 8 deaths are still awful.
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Deaths will of course lag infections. One death is one too many but hopefully these can be stopped soon.
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Great news. Does anyone have an updated 7 day average Graph for Victoria?
UPDATE: SMH reports a woman in her 80s had died. She was linked to the Our Lady of Lebanon cluster. Four cases were locally acquired and linked to previously reported cases and three were locally acquired from an unknown source. Five cases were returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine.
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That is awful for NZ after eliminating it. Hopefully they work out the source.
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Number of active cases dropping slightly - probably the Logan couple now out of isolation.
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The New Zealand cases are quite remarkable.
If the cases of COVID are indeed traced back to there via an overseas cold freight facility due to the virus being able to be preserved on chilled surfaces, that absolutely proves can the reasoning behind why meatpacking facilities are so vulnerable to the virus.
It would also mean that countries with colder climates would be more susceptible to the virus than warmer climates, as it would take longer for the virus to die on public surfaces exposed to a cold environment
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Yes NZ is really concerning at the moment.
The virus has been proven to stay active for a very long time under cold conditions so any assertions otherwise is nonsense and the idea that it may have come from freight shouldnât be ruled out completely. It doesnât make sense that any traces of the coronavirus can just pop up out of nowhere in Auckland and someone can catch it by luck, and hotel quarantine breach doesnât sound plausible either.
While rigorous testing makes it unlikely, the virus can slowly & silently spread with asymptomatic carriers totally unaware they have it, until it flares up with people who do show symptoms.
An outbreak (like in Casula, Sydney) can be sparked by a single super-spreader.
Victorian deputy chief health officer Allen Cheng said at todayâs press conference that stage 4 lockdown for Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat were being looked at. Now that should be a worry.
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seems a long term ban on imported meat should be an essential element of any elimination strategy.
Do people in hotel quarantine in NZ have to test negative at the end of their quarantine period in order to leave, or are they allowed out after a certain number of days?
No cases in 100 days suggests that itâs highly unlikely to have been in the community all that time
Is that particularly practical for NZ? I know it comes back to issues around self-sustainability when it comes to food
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A person in Sydney who has been exposed wants to get tested, but is turned away. Seems absolutely incompetent.
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How the hell does that happen? Thatâs the sort of thing you encourage!
#IWorkForNSW #IdiocyIsParForTheCourseInNSW
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and he also said this :âLook, I think weâre looking at that very closely. Itâs sort of a day-by-day proposition and we really encourage the community to come forward to get tested so that we can sort of get on top of these transmission chains and hopefully obviate the need for stage 4,â said Mr Cheng.
Without getting into a debate I think Victoria should act hard everywhere rather than just waiting to see. Numbers are being driven down in Melbourne due to stage 4.
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whilest i agree i dont think people here in ballarat would be to happy with stage 4. people (manly bussiness are struggling with stage 3 as it is )
depends on how seriously they want elimination, although i am pretty sure they do have a decent meat industry, a lot of salmon i see in Aus is from NZ, they have a lot of sheep, and their dairy cows can pivot.