I wasnât necessarily saying australia should adopt Sinovac rather suggesting they should open their eyes to other vaccine options - as you said Johnson and Johnson.
Victoriaâs Deputy Chief Officer Allan Cheng 12 month secondment has come to an end. Heâll new return to his previous roles at Alferd Health and Monash.
His insights these past 12 months have been great.
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Queensland Update: 1 locally acquired case linked to the Portuguese restaurant. One other case under investigation.
CHO said that several of the delta clusters are under control. Currently +4,000 in home quarantine. Yesterdayâs airport cargo worker turned out to be a false positive.
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The problem is the lack of supply.
We are expecting a ramp up from hereon in, with Moderna coming online in September as well
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And we need it⌠Less than 10% of the population fully vaccinated more than 4 months after vaccines first arrived. At this rate, we wouldnât be 80-90% vaccinated until late 2023.
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The rate will increase with more supply. There wonât be a consistent rate.
Much like the Super ads - past performance isnt an indicator of future performance.
While weâve been constrained by supply, we also donât allow a significant portion of the population to get a vaccine yet.
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Victoria has downgraded 10 local government areas in south-east Queensland, Townsville, Palm Island, Magnetic Island, as well as the Perth and Peel regions in WA from red zones to orange zones. City of Brisbane and Moreton Bay LGA remain in the red zone even though the lockdown ended last evening. Sunshine Coast is still in the red zone.
The number of active cases in Victoria dropped to 23 yesterday. Only five were locally acquired infections, with the remaining 18 in hotel quarantine.
WA has recorded one new case overnight. He is the partner of a previous case and has been in quarantine since June 26. That brings the total number of cases from Perthâs northern suburbs cluster to six.
NT and ACT have recorded no new COVID-19 cases overnight.
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Such a false narrative that you are painting here. Anyone still saying late 2023 clearly has an agenda that they are trying to push.
Everyone is preparing for a ramp up come September and most states capacity to vaccinate will double. We have already vaccinated over 25% of the population with at least 1 dose despite supply issues. We have also almost doubled the number of people fully vaccinated in just the past 10 days as people are starting to hit the 3 month mark. That will ramp up a lot in the coming weeks. Then come September we wonât have that 3 month lag between doses either with greater Pfizer availability.
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It still could have been quicker if our PM had done a better deal. Hopefully they invest in at least one more vaccine later this year to help clean up early next year.
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I was just saying IF we get kept going at this rate⌠No agenda whatsoever.
We all know it will increase, itâs just when⌠hopefully sooner rather than later.
We did deals that gave us autonomy in the supply chain - both AZ and the now-axed UQ vaccines were able to be produced in large quantities in Australia, this made a lot of sense at the time we did the deals.
The clotting issues and subsequent reduction in the use of AZ would never have been predicted - but as that unfolded, it meant we had to go to a marketplace that was already significantly committed to the delivery of vaccines to other countries.
What we need to do now is get behind the plan that we have - thereâs little point debating what could have been, it wastes time and effort. Politicians of all persuasions need to get behind the push to get as many people vaccinated as possible and to try and combat vaccine hesitancy, media too (even if that means that a few commentators need to be silenced).
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Of course there is room to debate about it. Our very own premiers are debating with the federal government about it. We have state premiers who keep undermining the AZ vaccine.
What do we achieve by continually debating it? All it seems to be achieving at the moment is reinforcing vaccine hesitancy and confusion.
We have a plan, it may not be the best plan but its a plan - so, in the words of Chris Cuomo âlets get after itâ
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We donât have a plan that both state premiers and federal are on board with though.
There is confusion and hesitancy because there is conflicting messages. So yes we do need to discuss it.
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Quite surprised to hear on Seven News Melbourne tonight that police (or some sort of security guards or ADF personnel) arenât checking for permits from travellers returning to Victoria from orange zones interstate. I also know someone who returned from an orange zone and in addition to not being checked for a permit, they werenât reminded to get a coronavirus test within 72 hours.
For all we know, people who arenât informed of those rules may not know to get a coronavirus test and although very unlikely, may unwittingly carry the disease around the community.
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QLD Health: Further testing has confirmed the person of interest case announced this morning has the virus. The person is a close contact of the Greek Community Centre and will be included in tomorrowâs case numbers.
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Isnât this all the responsibility of the individual?
Youâd think they could at least have a few people there to remind returning travellers. Some people might forget, others might have no idea, and some might try dodge the rulesâŚ
Which leads me to my next point, Iâd be keen to know what the compliance is in regards to people getting coronavirus tests when theyâre asked to do so after domestic travel, not just in Victoria but nationally. Are checks being conducted to ensure people have got a test?