Coronavirus update

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus update: Formula One Grand Prix called off, Trump announces travel ban, Tom Hanks tests positive

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-12/coronavirus-live-updates-mclaren-lewis-hamilton-travel-ban/12...

[rogevibe]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Trio who allegedly breached SA coronavirus border restrictions to face court, as prison terms considered

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-20/sa-border-breachers-in-court-as-prison-terms-considered/12471...

they wont go to prison

last week the 4 who arrived by hiding on a train got a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again

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yes magistrate davidc 

[go-tazz]

Victorian hotel quarantine inquiry examines errors that could have caused 'every case' now in the state

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-20/victoria-coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-inquiry-day-1-in-melbou...

[davewil1964]

Would that be one security guard with a libido bigger than his pants?

[debra9275]

this story on 9 news last night was rather disturbing

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-covidsafe-app-could-have-cost-contact-tracing-millions...

9News can reveal government spending on the app has cost millions more than previously thought and one of the companies involved in working on it has links to the Liberal Party.

Technology company DELV was paid to work on COVIDSafe and paid more than $3.8 million to help develop the government's coronavirus information app and around $6 million has been paid for work also including the COVIDSafe program.

DELV's CEO Masseh Haidary is the husband of Liberal Party Canberra candidate Mina Zaki and has in a previous role his company hosted MP Angus Taylor in the past at business events

More than 4600 cases have been diagnosed in Victoria since it was launched, with the app only being accessed just 325 times for zero results.

In NSW, 586 cases have been identified but the app was used just 12 times and no cases found solely from its operation.

[davidc4430]

Victorian coronavirus cases rise by 374 as state's death toll increases by three

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/victoria-coronavirus-cases-rise-by-374-as-three-more-people-d...

would anyone want to be victorian premier right now

every day the news gets no better

he must look back on the golden days of cutting ribbons and anouncing new stuff with envy

[*kazumi*]

Considering that we are only less than 2 weeks into the lockdown, and  the usual incubation period is anything up to about 2 weeks, all what it shows that the lockdown was necessary.  What will be happening from now on is going to be more significant, but still we should just be grateful that the lockdown has been introduced; if it has not, there would have been many more undiagnosed cases in the community by now.

It is easy to say that the hotel quarantine should have been handled better.  They say the people were only given 5 minutes training.  How much more do you need to understand that you are dealing with people who may have deadly disease that is  transmitted in the air, and so you wear mask and do NOT interact with them in any other way then put their food, medication etc. behind their door, and then remove the dirty dishes, and wear gloves while doing it? 

[not_for_sale]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Victorian coronavirus cases rise by 374 as state's death toll increases by three

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/victoria-coronavirus-cases-rise-by-374-as-three-more-people-d...

would anyone want to be victorian premier right now

every day the news gets no better

he must look back on the golden days of cutting ribbons and anouncing new stuff with envy

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Keep an eye on NSW. They are on the way up too!

[domino-710]

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@*kazumi* wrote:

Considering that we are only less than 2 weeks into the lockdown, and  the usual incubation period is anything up to about 2 weeks, all what it shows that the lockdown was necessary.  What will be happening from now on is going to be more significant, but still we should just be grateful that the lockdown has been introduced; if it has not, there would have been many more undiagnosed cases in the community by now.

It is easy to say that the hotel quarantine should have been handled better.  They say the people were only given 5 minutes training.  How much more do you need to understand that you are dealing with people who may have deadly disease that is  transmitted in the air, and so you wear mask and do NOT interact with them in any other way then put their food, medication etc. behind their door, and then remove the dirty dishes, and wear gloves while doing it? 

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Kaz - in all reality - we are now into 6 months of ' lockdown '.

It's a question - when are some going to take this seriously.

About bloody time.

[imastawka]

Dom, I think Kazumi is referring to Melbourne's  'serious'  lockdown.

We're not allowed to cross postcodes.

Now with the masks being mandatory, I hope we can stop the bloody thing, or at least slow it down a hell of a lot.

[davewil1964]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/coronavirus-vaccine-oxford-university-next-step/12475892

According to today's news it is possible there will be a vaccine by October.