And we have people complaining NSW didnât act quick enoughâŚ
This makes me so upset. Surely getting to farewell loved ones comes before covid.
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Meanwhile, NT has recorded another two locally acquired cases of COVID-19 linked to the Granites gold mine. The two men were taken to Howard Springs on June 26. Authorities believe the pair may have contracted the illness from another employee who returned to Darwin on the same flight before testing positive.
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On the matter youâre referencing, I came across this article:
However, describing the situation as âtragicâ, Ms Palaszczuk said on Thursday she understood the issue was still in the hands of the NSW government, which was progressing a test.
âAnd then they were working with Queensland, so it was at the New South Wales stage,â she said.
âIâm not apportioning blame here or anything, it is a tragic situation.
âWhat happens when a person flies into NSW, they need to get the clearance of the NSW government first and then we can facilitate,â she said.
âWe actually did step in and help out a case recently.
Yet, in a different article (which seems to lean more towards deflecting the blame on Queensland),
The man affected by all this claims:
âNSW Health were amazing. They had proactively called me before I even got on my flight, had the exemption plan all laid out and while I was on the flight, they actually executed it,â
âQueensland Health, on the other hand, were silent ⌠I didnât receive a single phone call.â
Quite mixed responses in terms of where it went wrong⌠
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This immediately gets the nation to roughly the September road map (excl Moderna). There was hints of this earlier today with the feds stating that they could give NSW an extra allocation without impacting the reserves of other states.
Hope the feds are ready to get distribution ramped up, Iâm confident most states can scale up pretty quickly but not so confident the feds can sort out sufficient GPs or Pharmacies quick enough to handle triple the current weekly doses.
Also suspect quite a few under 40s that opted to take AZ will be pissed as itâs highly likely that theyâll now have had the opportunity to get fully vaxxed with Pfizer before AZ.
You must still isolate for 10 days if you are pinged by the NHS app and were a âclose contactâ or someone positive
Even if you are vaccinated or even if you test negative
Apparently 750,000 school kids isolating now in UK
We have been told to expect 100,000 cases a day by July 19
Theyâve decided to let it rip here
I always expected 20-30k cases a day with our testing levels once sports stadiums and hospitality opens up - but 100,000 is a shocking number even for me
If a country that is 95% single jabbed and 65% double jabbed is getting upwards of 50,000 cases a day in summer when nightclubs are still yet to open, borders are still some of the toughest in n TDB world and sports events only started the last few weeks - that really tells u - this is never going away
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Itâs a bit of an F you to those vulnerable countries. The UK has a huge expat population that will be wanting to go home over the summer. If they havenât closed their borders the virus is going to rip through them. Imagine 10 people going home the Uganda.
Thatâs an issue for Uganda no? To deal with citizens of another country coming into Uganda.
I think the UK needs to focus on getting life back to normal for the 65 million people who live here.
More than even Australians I can tell you people here are absolutely done with this. We had 150,000 dead - 10 months Of solid lockdowns, entire industries and economies decimated. A brutal winter locked in our homes with 1000+ dying a day. No travel allowed ro warm sunny places for 6 months. People are compassion fatigued and exhausted. No one at all seems worried or scared about COVID to me. Itâs gone on too long, too much disaster, to many mistakes, too much death, too much distraction to peopleâs lives, livelihoods and well being. No one has any more âcareâ
In them I have to say. We become desensitized to the huge amounts of deaths and government scandals and mistakes. People are well and truly over caring and ready to live their lives again and try and build back.
I know itâs very different mentality to Australia - but really no one seems to care. The juman DNA is that you can only care about something for so long. I think as a nation we are well passed that point.
Really, no one is dying. And in the end - I think people see that as The end of it.
VICâs numbers -
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Nice Job Victoria, us in Regional NSW do want to join you temporarily until Gladys is sacked or Sydney gets their act together. It would be more practical to rather than declare regional NSW a red zone, move the border further north to between Buxton and Balmoral which is the border between Greater Sydney and Regional NSW.
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You would hope we could help out these vulnerable countries more. Exemptions would apply, dual citizens etc. and they probably donât have the facilities for people to quarantine.
Some of these countries, like Uganda, donât have enough medical supplies to help their own country. Uganda has just approved a herbal remedy for covid due to lack of medicine.
Yes to think of African nations dealing with COVID is actually very sad indeed 
Queensland update: Zero new cases in last 24 hours.
NT: All coronavirus restrictions in the Northern Territory will be LIFTED at 1pm today.
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ACT and regional NSW (including the LGAs inside the NSW cross-border community) remain orange zones. The border bubble remains in effect.
Victorians can travel to Brisbane Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast again, they have been downgraded from red to orange zones.
Alice Springs and Darwin are now green zones
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Also, the LGAs of Townsville (including Magnetic Island), Palm Island, Ipswich, Logan, Redland, Gold Coast, Lockyer Valley, Noosa, Scenic Rim and Somerset have changed from orange zones to green zones.
Perth and Peel regions are also green, ahead of WA return to pre-lockdown conditions next Monday.
Meanwhile, state and territory leaders at this afternoonâs National Cabinet meeting have agreed to establish a home quarantine trial for fully vaccinated travellers in South Australia.
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