Travellers from SA will now need to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival into WA.
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Interesting overreaction. They arenât going to at least give them a few days to see if theyâve got it under control?
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Just hoping that SAâs contact tracing team can get their act together quickly and stamp out the source of this diagnosis and prevent any spread from happening.
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It seems SA and NSW have been getting most of the cases imported from overseas. Is it due to the fact that theyâre getting most of the returned travellers? Or is it because a large proportion of their returned travellers are from the hotspots?
From the 3rd November, SA Health werenât recommending masks for people who are well.
Most likely the second, NSW is taking in the most travellers, so youâd expect them to have the highest chance of people bringing it in, QLD & WA are excepting more return travelers than SA. I think SA has just been unlucky with more returning positive lately, had a massive long stretch were very little were testing positive.
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I think QLD and WA should be taking more returning travellers from these hotspot areas and share the load instead of loading it all on SA and to a lesser extent NSW. Just because they want to keep their state COVID-free doesnât mean they should put other states at risk.
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Unfortunately with how the rest of the world is at the moment, pretty much everywhere except a small number of places in Asia are hot spots so its hard to profile every flight.
Which defeats the purpose when this is something that you can asymptomatically pass on. Indeed itâs counterproductive - as if the messaging is âsick people wear masksâ, masks become scary - as people see a mask and think youâve got it.
For normal times - Australia should absolutely get to the Asian norms around mask wearing - people get sick with a cough/cold and wear a mask to protect others - itâd be amazing if we were all that considerate and you didnât stick out or worse be mocked by others for wearing one.
But with Covid around for a while to come, and can burst up at any time - as the Vic gov pointed out a lot the case in Shepparton, where people were basically in the community positive for over a week and didnât pass it on to anyone is a very strong case for mandatory national mask wearing - at the very least in indoor settings, public transport and events.
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I know SA gets a lot of flights in from India.
I believe QLD and WA are taking more arrivals than SA. SA has had the least amount of retuning travellers than most states. WA just had 4 additional cases today in hotel quarantine.
The problem is, more people are contracting the virus overseas, increasing the chances of the virus coming into the country.
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Both QLD and WA are taking significantly more than SA this whole time⌠SA barely has any scheduled international flights. QLD has generally been the luckiest, and I suspect its due to more of its passenger quota getting utilised by flights from Pacific Islands with largely no COVID.
Itâs consistency with the controlled border policy which essentially returns states from âvery-lowâ to âlowâ risk, and therefore requires 14-day self isolation if they have evidence of community transmission. Iâm actually surprised they didnât try and make an exception to the rule (When the policy was announced a few weeks ago I had actually assumed that if this did happen, they would bend the rules for an allowance unless an outbreak had occurred), but it would have looked worse when the controlled border regime started less than 48 hours ago.
17 cases are now linked to the Adelaide outbreak. 15 in one family, plus 2 others.
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WA is over cautious and hasnât considered the individual circumstances of the visiting South Australians. Some of them may be from rural towns and have not set foot in Adelaide during their period. Some could be on short breaks and will now have to either spend extra days in quarantine hotels in WA, or catch the first flight today back to Adelaide. All of those affected will now be hundreds (perhaps thousands) of dollars out of pocket due to cancellations for their original bookings for hotels, sightseeing etc. Will the WA government compensate them?
This could also spook travellers from other states like Queensland in the future, because they know that if they are in WA and there are new locally acquired cases back home, they could be forced into self-quarantine and get tested for COVID-19 at very short notice.
Fantastic that they have traced this so quickly though.
Big issue with this cluster is that one of the people infected works at Yatala Prison. Another person who was at the hospital, who is at another prison, has also been infected.
Thatâs concerning, more than Victoria had when Dan Andrews started re-imposing restrictions at the start of the second wave. And we still had a lot of restrictions in place from the first wave.
https://twitter.com/andrew_hough/status/1328081646151614464
https://twitter.com/andrew_hough/status/1328082806006681601
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SA premier should be clearing his calendar for the next 120 days.
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Iâm not sure if I should be pleased with the fact that SA Health has managed to trace all the sources for these new confirmed cases, or concerned over the fact that within less than 24 hours thereâs like 17 local cases in SA when weâve been in the clear for months.
I honestly donât know what to think and Iâm just pinning my hopes on SA Health knowing what theyâre doing.
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