I think it’s got to the point where these businesses need to mandated the vaccine or fire the people that won’t. They’ve got to get on with it.
If you don’t want to be vaccinated then that’s your problem and you find a job where it’s not mandated.
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Or move them to another role where they are not exposed to COVID.
Some airlines are doing that. I think it was Alliance that said no jab no job.
Virgin and Qantas should be no different really. Well you would think the employees would regardless considering the amount of people from all sorts of places air and ground crews come in contact with, unvaccinated they are guaranteed to get it next year considering the volumes of people they deal with.
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At least they were wearing one.
The Sydney limo driver allegedly at the centre of the Sydney outbreak wasn’t even wearing a mask when he was transporting air crew infected with Delta.
And bizarrely, at the time, he wasn’t even required to wear one. And nor was he vaxxed at all. I can only shake my head.
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They were vaccinating the cohorts that all the states agreed to, it’s clear no one in power had the presence of mind to think about how to do it in such a way to mitigate it coming in at as in
I’m Not sure that helps in the long run.
The current outbreaks are going to help to speed up Australia getting jabbed and finally turning a corner and coming out of the pandemic.
Keeping covid out of the country longer iwould mean an even longer time to vaccinate everyone. There is a little sense of urgency - finally.
Outbreaks will motivate the politicians and the public.
Being covid free led to complacency
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Some of these people couldn’t get vaccinated because of pre-existing health conditions. For example, 80-year-old former Lao diplomat Kat Ditthavong who died at Liverpool Hospital on Friday.
A woman in her 80s, who had been a resident at the Wyoming Residential Aged Care Facility in Summer Hill, died at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
18 previously reported cases have been excluded following further investigation and data reconciliation.
46 of today’s cases were infectious in the community, and the isolation status of 104 remains under investigation. 88 cases each were from south west Sydney and western Sydney, 12 were from Hunter New England region.
NSW Health has announced that 12 suburbs in the City of Penrith will join eight other council areas in Sydney’s west to have additional restrictions from 5pm today, including people cannot travel outside their areas for work unless they are an authorised worker.
NSW Health has also revealed three new cases in Central Coast (all of whom are contacts of previously reported cases and seven new cases at Hunter New England region, including four in Newcastle (two linked to the Blacksmith Beach gathering and two to the University of Newcastle) and one in Armidale (a household contact of the two cases reported yesterday).
So, in just five days, NSW has recorded over 1,300 cases. Gosh.
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At least the numbers haven’t gone up again… I was steeling myself for a number over 350 today.
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They should be doing more to keep it that way
What do you suggest? I think they are starting to run out of options, short of a ‘ring of steel’ to stop people escaping to the bush.
The numbers don’t rise significantly every day, they seem to have a few small rises, a large one then contract, before climbing again. Only if you average it out per day then the trend is clearly increasing with no end in sight based on the government’s more recent chatter on this.
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Well they should be doing it.
The answer seems to be cracking down on people and businesses doing the wrong thing.
It seems too many were out and about enjoying the glorious weather we were having when they should have been at home.
And there are apparently a number of smaller businesses in the new hotspot of Canterbury-Bankstown that are not COVID safe compliant.
Easier said than done I know.
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There can be no doubt that that is the case in many areas, surely they have an audit process to ensure business compliance by now, and are doing daily random checks?
Hey Sydney, I’m confused by this paragraph in a SMH report, why do you need to use face id to check in?
The app will also be upgraded to make it easier for people to sign in using a mask, by allowing users to extend their log-in period for up to four hours, in order to stop the need for removing a mask repeatedly to activate Face ID.
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Because the check in app (Service NSW) is the same app that NSW delivers digital drivers licences (and other credentials), it requires you to login if you have one of the digital licences on your phone.
Its a deadset punish - you either have to take your mask off or wait for the app to ask you to enter your Service NSW PIN to log in. To Service NSW’s (and the Minister for Digital) credit, they’ve been receptive to finding a solution
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I didn’t think the Service NSW app opens using face recognition. I use the fingerprint sensor. I do have face recognition on my phone too but maybe it was the way I set up the app in the first place.
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It might be OS specific - I’ve got an iPhone 11 that only does Face ID as the biometric measure
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