Sorry I am not saying it isnāt a great effort and it isnāt doing anything. But to get the goal of herd immunity they need to be given the second shot. I can understand why this insāt a priority though.
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by the sounds of the press confrence of dan andrews going foward :those are most vunerable have been vaccined by the commonwealth vaccination program eg those in aged care , those with underlying health condtiions , people who imocompromised for whatever reason ,it could be less about cases and testing and more about if people sick and are they in icu , are they in hospitals , so it will be about the severity of cases in differnt cohorts
Dan Andrews got asked about restarting HQ again for internatonal travellers:Iām not in a position to confirm when flights will begin arriving again in Melbourne, And the reason for that is weāve asked our medical experts to look at what the impacts of variants of concern are on the risk profile in our hotels. When that work is completed and they can satisfy me that we can have a system where we have the lowest possible risk, then flights will start again.
I know thatās inconvenient for people, but the inconvenience involved in that is, I think, pales insignificance when you think about wildly infectious, very easily transmitted virus, a changing virus, a changing challenge, and the prospect of further lockdowns." and I want to avoid that at all costs meaning he wants to avoid lockdowns at all costs
Todayās VIC and NSW numbers
Following NSW, Victoria has also reached the milestone of 5 million COVID tests processed.
Total number of cases in NSW have passed the 5000 mark.
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Iām surprised that VIC isnāt getting more criticism for this at this point. I appreciate that VIC has baggage from the extended lockdown last year but QLD, SA and WA continue to take inbound travellers despite having circuit breaker lockdowns in recent months.
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well, the premier has admitted in the past heās very conservative. so maybe this one of his conservative approaches?
Itās quite funny considering hotel quarantine was his idea in the first place
Its been de-politicised because up until recently Dan Andrews had the excuse of not taking travellers because of the uncertainty with the state of emergency. Ie. very easy to blame it on the liberal oppositionsā obstruction if any of the feds did criticise vic.
Also there is a growing awareness that it is a federal responsibility. Iād say other states donāt want to provide a soundbite that will backfire in the future when they try to make ScoMo do his job.
Iām happy living in a state that isnāt taking any international travelers, i think the rest of the states should do the same.
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and I think quietly the govt wonāt have HQ here in VIC and will just pay the other states for it
Iām starting to think that as well. The program keeps failing and there is only so much public goodwill the Andrews Government can chew up from the Victorian public.
I think it is atrocious that weāre not taking returning Aussie BUT Iām torn by not having a single ounce of tolerance for further lockdowns to be imposed on the community and not having HQ ensures that it eliminates a major source of the virus seeding into the community.
i know he said this morning in his presser hes going to avoid future lockdowns at all cost . weāve asked our medical experts to look at what the impacts of variants of concern are on the risk profile in our hotels. When that work is completed and they can satisfy me that we can have a system where we have the lowest possible risk, then flights will start again.
As long as they donāt turn around in a few weeks time and take athletes into hotel quarantine like they did with the Australian open. Money seems to talk to Dan Andrewsā¦ his double standards have been concerning.
If you think the contrarians gave him a hard time about allowing the tennis to go ahead, youād have been shocked by their vociferous condemnation had he not allowed the tennis to happen. Andrews will struggle whatever decision he makes, heās extremely lucky to have such a pointless opposition.
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I donāt really care what decision he makes as long as he doesnāt make a decision that contradicts it a moment later.
He literally said a few weeks before the AO that hotel quarantine was safe and if the tennis wasnāt played here it would go to China. A month later hotel quarantine is too risky.
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The vaccine roll out is off to a bad start - already 50% behind schedule just 10 days inā¦
Australiaās COVID-19 vaccine targets will require a dramatic ramping up of our national rollout
Australiaās goal of having the nation done by October would mean 200,000 jabs a day between now and then the article says. Instead this far not a single day has seen more than 10,000 jabs.
To reach the goal Australia would have to be vaccinating faster than the US and UK for the entire year, and so far itās not even close.
Our vaccination campaign is only 10 days old, and it was always going to start slowly, but every day the country is off the pace, the mountain to be climbed gets higher.
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Weāre ten days in. It will take time to ramp up, letās save the criticism for a month or two if the rollout hasnāt accelerated by then with local production and full-scale clinics running at capacity.
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Italy used its own laws (created in January) to block the export of 250,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia.
Deputy Chief Health Officer Allan Cheng says the vaccine rollout of vaccines for Victorian hotel quarantine workers will be finished within the next week
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Yesterday there were no new cases reported. 0 local, 0 interstate acquired and 0 cases internationally aquired 19,846 test results were received. Here in Victoria and there now 5 active cases