COVID-19 updates comments and concerns

[Zippo]

The political minefield that the "trans tasman" bubble has become.
Sorry, but until Australia has 0 active cases like New Zealand, you can stay over there.

[DELTAprime]

The political minefield that the "trans tasman" bubble has become.
Sorry, but until Australia has 0 active cases like New Zealand, you can stay over there.

Personally I think countries are coming out of lockdown way too early all over the globe. For me, peoples health is more important than getting back to work.

[griffin]

New Zealand are officially clear of the virus, with their last active case now recovered.

Yesterday in Australia, we had zero new cases of Covid that were transmitted within the country (according to the news today, the 2 new cases were both new arrivals to the country that go into isolation until they are clear).
Fingers crossed that we continue with this trend, and when everyone has returned to Australia, we follow New Zealand's lead in having the remaining few people recover without infecting anyone else.

(we can't be complacent until we are clear of the virus, but I think it would be good that the Government breaks down the case numbers into ones that were new arrivals and ones that were caught among residents, so that we can be reassured that our sacrifices are working, and that we don't need to be as paranoid about catching it from everywhere, as many were worried about back in April)

The covid stats website (the link above) says that there are still 547 active cases yet to recover... but I'm not sure how accurate that is, because counting back 547 new cases on their graph (6,720) was 6 weeks ago (April 28th), but most people recover within 2-4 weeks. It is rare for people to take longer than that, and those who do are in hospital (there are only 19 people still in hospital with the virus). I think the number should be closer to 200.
At least it has been a while since we had a covid death in this country, as we are still at 102 from May 23rd (18 days ago).

[Unicran]

Four new cases in Victoria today.

[Zippo]

And we are back.. I really hope heads roll for the complete sh**-show that this example has uncovered. All the things we were told were being done to keep New Zealand free of the virus and .. nothing was actually being followed.

[Unicran]

Comment deleted -- not appropriate -- dirge.

[1AZRAEL1]

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[Autocon]

And we are back.. I really hope heads roll for the complete sh**-show that this example has uncovered. All the things we were told were being done to keep New Zealand free of the virus and .. nothing was actually being followed.

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[Convoid]

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New Zealand was virus free then they let 2 international visitors leave quarantine early to visit a dying relative. The 2 visitors ended to testing positive for the virus and there are now fears they may have infected others.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...bf24df1fba6e2f