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Pies4shaw wrote:Victoria's going up slowly. NSW is coming down slowly. End of the week, maybe start of next week, as things stand?
That works on the current trajectory. It will take a few more days yet to see if the Construction lockdown impacts cases, although all the peanuts protesting in the CBD may yet supercharge the numbers.

My neighbour has a Scaffolding business, he's now home for the next week and a half at least, first time in 18 months he won't have been working 6 days a week. His missus may stab him before next week, the guy is constantly moving I reckon he has ADHD. I hear him leave for work usually before 6am every day and then he does work outside or plays with the kids after work, more energy than 3 normal people. Stuck at home with her and 2 kids...........
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Dark Beanie wrote:
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stui magpie wrote:I was just talking to someone currently in day 12 of home quarantine after an outbreak at their childs day care.

She's suitably happy and amazed that while a number of other children have tested positive, her child and her haven't, despite 4 days of exposure.

Day 13 test tomorrow.
I'm curious by the testing regime if you know, do they get regular tests or just at the start then day 13? I remember an earlier outbreak a lot of Day 13 positives were the reason for a spike, but is that because people don't get tested until day 13 or had no symptoms?

Also curious if they go to testing centres for Day 13 or do DHS visit them? Can't imagine DHS having the resources to do that though?
If you are deemed a close contact you isolate for 14 days and get tested straight away if symptomatic or have been to a tier 1 site. Day 13 test is to check you are negative and OK to leave iso. DHHS doesn't come to you for test, you can leave home for a test.
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Tomorrow we break the worldwide record for the longest cumulative days in lockdown since the pandemic started.

Congrats to Andrews and Sutton.
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Here's an interesting chart taken from this morning's ABC blog:

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In Victoria:
Reported yesterday: 766 new local cases and 0 cases acquired overseas.
- 40,957 vaccines administered
- 62,408 test results received
- Sadly, 4 people with COVID-19 have died
The Government says that there are now 6,666 active cases.

The 766 new cases is an all-time daily record for Victoria. The positive test rate was 1.23% yesterday, as it was on Tuesday (but then from a much lower number of tests). Two weeks ago, the positive test rate was half that.
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Pies4shaw wrote:In Victoria:
Reported yesterday: 766 new local cases and 0 cases acquired overseas.
- 40,957 vaccines administered
- 62,408 test results received
- Sadly, 4 people with COVID-19 have died
The Government says that there are now 6,666 active cases.

The 766 new cases is an all-time daily record for Victoria. The positive test rate was 1.23% yesterday, as it was on Tuesday (but then from a much lower number of tests). Two weeks ago, the positive test rate was half that.
What a disturbing number, I fully expect to see the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse riding through Melbourne and Andrews/Sutton trying to fine them for not wearing masks.
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Jezza wrote:Tomorrow we break the worldwide record for the longest cumulative days in lockdown since the pandemic started.

Congrats to Andrews and Sutton.
And found out today, Sydney gets out of lockdown 2 weeks before Melbourne. Not surprising when it takes longer than 2 weeks for Victorian exposure site information to get out, but it is extremely frustrating, especially when that phuckwit is up there blaming everyone else but his own people.

It's almost enough to make me vote for Matthew Guy.
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^ I know the feeling mate.

Breaking new records today. Biggest number of daily cases and the most locked down city in the world.

What an embarrassment we've become.
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From the ABC blog, re Victoria:
In the northern suburbs, there were 468 cases, over 60 per cent of today's cases.

There were 264 new cases in Hune.

"That is a 60 per cent increase in the last four days. We are doing a lot of work with the community in Hume to see what we can do to support them and reduce the rate of transmission," Mr Weimar said.

The suburbs of concern include Craigieburn, Roxburgh Park and Meadow Heights.

In the western suburbs, there were 172 cases, around 22 per cent of today's total, in key suburbs such as Hoppers Crossing, Point Cook, and Werribee.

10 per cent of cases were in the south-eastern suburbs

There were 76 cases in the south-east, across Pakenham, Dandenong and Berwick and there are 24 cases in Doncaster East and Croydon.

There were two cases that were acquired interstate in today's numbers and three cases that remain under investigation.
There was one new case in Ballarat, a known primary close contact that has been isolating for their entire infectious period.

There were 8 cases in Mitchell shire. Six are linked to known cases in three different households and their isolation protocols are strong. We also have a truck driver based in Mitchell shire who was picked up in the routine surveillance testing. There is one more case in Mitchell shire under investigation.

In Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool, there are four new cases linked to exposure sites and work places in metro Melbourne.

In the Macedon Ranges, there are five new cases. Four are known close contacts of an existing case and one is known to a separate work place exposure.

In Mildura, one case which is a known household contact of a positive case from a number of weeks ago.

There is one new case in the Surf Coast shire, a known primary close contact

There is one case under investigation in Bendigo.
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If Andrews approval rating doesn't go down significantly in the next polls, the only hope for this state may be an exorcism.
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^ It'd probably go up a bit if he locked down a little more firmly.
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stui magpie wrote:If Andrews approval rating doesn't go down significantly in the next polls, the only hope for this state may be an exorcism.
So people are in Victoria are all Idiots because we want as little people Sick and Dying of Covid?
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That didn't take long (this from the ABC blog):
Melbourne protester tests positive
A man who attended yesterday's protest has tested positive for COVID-19.

The man is in hospital but not in ICU, health sources have told the ABC.
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Evil but that makes me happy!!
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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