Thereās nothing that says someone must immediately return home after finishing hotel quarantine. Itās highly likely he quarantined in Perth for some sort of arbitrary reason - perhaps to visit family before returning home, or even perhaps the flight was cheaper.
The press conference didnāt say anything about a G2G Pass, it was that he failed to use the SafeWA app to check-in, but nonetheless through interviews they were able to work out the contract tracing.
You canāt enter the state without a completed G2G.
It seems NSW is enforcing the WA lockdown in anyone arriving from Perth/Peel
https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-update-victoria-23-april-2021
WA Health recently reported transmission between two rooms at a Hotel Quarantine facility in Perth.
As a result of this known transmission, WA Health determined other residents on the floor of that hotel as primary close contacts.
This morning, the Victorian Department of Health received notification of a positive COVID-19 result in a recently identified primary close contact from the Hotel Quarantine facility.
That individual travelled from Perth to Melbourne on Wednesday 21 April.
On arrival at the airport, he was immediately advised by Western Australian health authorities of his status as a Primary Close Contact.
He returned directly to his home in Melbourneās eastern suburbs.
He was tested yesterday, returning the positive result this morning.
Out of caution, and before the positive test result was known, he was moved into hotel quarantine in Melbourne at his request, where he remains.
Four household and social contacts are associated with this case ā the individualās spouse, his two children, and a friend of one child.
All have been tested.
The Department will continue to manage the public health actions associated with this case and will continue to monitor the situation in Western Australia
The Department is listing the following as a Tier 1 exposure site:
If you were on this flight, you must isolate, get tested and remain isolated for 14 days ā unless otherwise formally advised by the Department of Health.
The Department is contacting over 250 individuals on this flight using information obtained from comprehensive flight manifest data, and border permits.
While the individual returned directly to his home in Melbourneās eastern suburbs, he did pass through the airport.
As a result, after interviews and CCTV investigations, the Department intends to publish the following as a Tier 2 exposure site:
Anyone who was at this location during this time must isolate, get tested and remain isolated until they get a negative result.
Further locations ā including those within the airport ā may be classified as exposure sites based on continued investigations.
I am confused by your question. Why canāt he room around WA after completing his 14 day quarantine? He traveled from Shanghai to perth and did his 14 day quarantine. So I am not sure how the pass works in these situations.
WA Department of Health has released a list of locations the Victorian man visited while in Perth, after released from hotel quarantine.
Travel between NZ and Western Australia has been paused following todayās announcement. An Air New Zealand flight scheduled to depart Perth for Auckland tonight has been cancelled.
The problem is the number of people who test negative in India and then test positive in HQ. The NT CHO said yesterday he suspects some are getting fraudulent tests.
The worldwide pandemic is hitting all new highs.
There are currently 94 countries vaccinating faster than Australia
This thing is here for years. Itās going to be an endemic.
I think Australia will continue with snap lockdowns for a long time yet as the vaccination is so slow.
The country has kinda painted itself into a corner with the zero Covid policy that it canāt get out of now - possibly for another 12 months till vaccination rates top 70% or the countries tolerance of cases rises significantly
Winter is coming and itās seasonal and low vaccination rates and close to zero immunity in the population means itās ripe to spread or explode
Australiaās world beating success I think will be a double edged sword now
I wonder if the non existence of Covid in Australia will mean vaccine take up will be much lower than other nations?
Painted it self into a corner?
Sorry but I still wouldnāt want to be anywhere else other than Australia or New Zealand right about now, even if thatās for the next year or two. Iāll wait.
It didnāt last year. Itās just the hotel quarantine issues that still plague us. Iām going to the UK later this year and it puzzles me some of the things you say. The entire world except here and NZ fucked it. Vaccines help, but itās after the horse has bolted and led to hundreds of thousands deaths. Only completely boarding up from other places worked.
What puzzles you?
Yes the entire world did fuck if up, but now they are fixing it with fast vaccine rollout
The mistakes EU, UK, US made were completely avoidable and will always be a scare. Itās been infuriating to watch the responses living here in Europe.
Vaccines donāt help. They are the solution. They will
Eventually end the pandemic. In Isreal, the UK there are clear signs they have ended the pandemic. Reports today that the Pandemic is by definition over in the UK (not to say it wonāt come back) and we are now in an endemic / continuous low circulation of virus that will
Be seasonal - like flu. Ever constant.
Border closures and lockdowns donāt end the pandemic they buy time. But only work when in affect. The vaccines will end the pandemic permanently.
Itās a shame Australia didnāt follow up the world beating controlling of cases with a world beating vaccination roll out.
Right, but my point is they arenāt the solution until 12-18 months later. The rest of the world fucked up by not closing borders and controlling the outbreak. Australia and NZ are the only ones who did it right, and to be lectured by other countries is insane. Yes, Australia needs to fix the vaccination issue and of course the one thing the Feds had to do, they screwed it up. But the position here is the envy of the world, to pretend otherwise is absurd.
I doubt the UK would have rolled out the vaccine as quick as it did if it was in the same position as australia.
and as indicated yesterday by the Victorian Health minister that the Vic CHO could change yesterdayās local case to an interstate acquired case. As noted in todays numbers the VIC CHO did reclassify it from locally acquired to interstate acquired
Thatās exactly it. Europe, UK and the USA all had emergency approvals for use because of the situations that they are in. This is also the reason we are so short on supply of certain vaccines here because certain parts of the world that were/are in an emergency situation have been getting the significant supply of doses.
Given that most Australianās have been living close to normal lives for months I donāt think that most of us have been in a rush to vaccinate so early either. As weāve seen waiting has been beneficial in some ways, such as uncovering issues that are arising (such as clots on AstraZeneca and now the like third dose or ongoing requirement for Pfizer). So we are now better informed on what we will be getting.
I was also reading a study from Israel which showed that once 50% of the population of over 60s are fully vaccinated, thatās the point that you start to see a massive drop off in cases, severe cases, hospitalisations etc. Australia should at least get to that point and beyond in the coming months which reduces the risk if there are outbreaks. We have administered close to 2million doses so far and that will ramp up when it opens to all over 50s in early May.
Iām finding it interesting how NSW is taking a different stance this time with border restrictions. NSW seems to aligning it self with the other states and NZ.