WA Health Minister Roger Cook said today that ten crew members of an oil tanker docked in Fremantle had tested positive, adding to two reported in yesterdayâs numbers. They are either quarantined on the ship, or are being treated in hospital.
Cook said a family member of the Australian diplomat had also tested positive to COVID and would be included in Tuesdayâs numbers. The diplomat, aged in his 30s, tested positive to the virus after he travelled from Serbia to Perth via Dubai with his wife and young child.
There must be some serious concerns about the NT, first doses have stalled before 70%, and they have already pulled every lever they have (no supply issues, all vaccines available to everyone, no bookings needed, extra investment in comms and access for remote communities). What does the national plan propose happens if a territory never reaches 70% fully vaxxed, let alone 80%?
Itâs mainly remote communities. Darwin apparently highly vaccinated. Unfortunately remote indigenous communities will be hard to target. The federal government needs to do more here.
Some restrictions coming into place for Mt Gambier and surrounding areas in SA as of 4pm today due to investigation into movements of the woman who returned from regional Victoria and tested positive yesterday.
Density moves to 1 person/4 square metres
Home gatherings reduced to 2 visitors plus residents at homes.
There is one case from the woman that returned from regional Victoria a few days ago. Her children has tested negative but SA Health believes that they will turn positive in a few days.
One new case in a truck driver from Victoria today.
QLD Update: 2 new locally acquired cases. CHO not worried about either. One a child of aviation cluster in quarantine. The second was a Queenslander given an exemption to return home who was notified while on the plane that she was positive, so met at airport and in quarantine.
Text going out today to encourage vaccinations.
New CHO Dr Krispin Hajkowicz introduced at todayâs media conference.
WA Premier Mark McGowan announced today that all from December 1, any FIFO and other workers in remote operations in the mining sector will be required to have their first COVID-19 vaccine. They must be fully vaccinated by January 1 next year.
No new cases in the state, but there will be one case reflected in todayâs numbers as mentioned by Roger Cook yesterday: the 4-year-old son of a diplomat who flew from Serbia into WA last week. 15 close contacts will be in quarantine for 14 days.
Exactly how the virus started? We probably wonât know for a long time (unfortunately) but Iâm fairly sure itâs not from 5G or some deliberate bio-chemically engineered source that is aimed to take down the world as the likes of Sky/Fox News/Trump/Pompeo likes to allude to.
But speaking from experience, I was in China during late 2019/early 2020 and was hearing about talks about a mysterious virus in Wuhan from my aunt who was in America in early December. Then heard about it on the news on December 31st. It wasnât until around the 19th January that news of COVID started to ramp up with extensive coverage as the virus spread.
So to say thereâs been a delay in the information relayed is definitely not wrong. Had everyone been a bit more cautious in the beginning when this virus started to emerge then perhaps the pandemic couldâve been controlled much more easily. Then again the benefit of hindsight wouldâve been helpful too.
Overall this pandemic has been a big wake up call for everyone to take health advice and information seriously and donât cover up anything. The only thing we can do now is to vaccinate our way out and improve the way we work with future variants and other viruses and diseases.
Itâs pretty crazy how Israel were the standard in vaccinations earlier in the year but they completely halted at this point. Australia is really zooming up the list.
