Is their job to identify exposure sites and identify potential conyacts from known cases (of anything, don’t forget this team exist outside of covid for any infectious disease) or to track down the whereabouts of each and every one of those contacts?
I’ve always assumed the former and when the means exist to contact the contacts personally they do, otherwise it’s up to the public to follow advice regarding exposure sites if they didn’t check in or the site has no record of people who’ve attended. Exposure sites that don’t get listed are where they know everyone involved has already been accounted for.
Of course its not just them but the governments inability to set up the QR code’s effectively. Let’s not forget the government was happy to fine for no masks on trains but didn’t really think it was good to fine those that weren’t checking in like other states are doing
You would hope that they can use CCTV to track people down like the used for the MCG when trying to workout where people had been.
I’m not saying it’s all the contact tracers but this was supposed to make their life easier but the state government was one of the last states to mandate this. It is just unacceptable.
But at the MCG, they knew who they were looking for on the CCTV.
Speaking of which, I thought it was overkill that each bar, food concession and coffee cart had their own individual QR code. In hindsight we should have been encouraged to use them, I asked one MCC staff member and they said once for the zones was enough.
Labor have been putting the boot into Morrison on the lack of dedicated quarantine facilities and a bungled vaccine rollout. which I think has tightened things considerably. I don’t think it’s the shoe-in a lot of people are thinking it will be.
The coalition know they won’t be getting additional seats in Victoria so I would suspect the logic is why provide any federal support when it won’t win then any votes at the next election.
If an outbreak occurred in Sydney (particularly Western Sydney) or Queensland on the other hand…
As long as they are linked it shouldn’t be an issue. I was talking to a police officer this morning and apparently they were told the government was really worried about the cases that attended the nightclubs. Apparently there was no QR system at some of the venues and a case attended multiple venues that night. They are really worried about what other cases could be out there. I wouldn’t be surprised if the lockdown goes for 10 days instead of the initial 7.
Perhaps time to get a QR system up and running mandatory with 5 figure fines for non compliance, especially for those places in small places (not like likes of Kmart, thinking nightclubs, pubs)
From memory other states are a tad harsher on that front compared to us. As it brings in revenue for non compliance I thought Labor would have jumped at the chance.
ABC and AW reporting staff are working across multiple federally regulated aged care facilities. Seems funding to ensure that ceased was short lived. Good work feds.
I suppose he doesn’t write the staff rosters either.
as of saturday according to saturdays vic DHS media relases out of those 5 nigthclubs there were 506 primary close contacts and as of saturday results came in for 17% of those contacts