Does this mean that everytime 1 person has it they are going to lock down whole cities? They are not going to let this pandemic die.
Mark
That case was the trigger but been a couple of others ongoing recently.
The hospital worker apparently had it in the community for a few days including a family holiday over 1,000 km away in city called Townsville. That town and a couple of offshore islands effectively locked down due to that one case.
In Brisbane there has been a miner who apparently contracted the Delta variant whilst in hotel quarantine and then went to the Northern Territory (NT) to a mine site. Not sure how got out of quarantine without it being detected. Others from the mine have contracted the virus and unfortunately many from that mine have flown to various parts of Oz. I think 4 from a flight of 80 been found positive so far. The original miner had returned to north of Brisbane before found to be positive. NT / Darwin has locked down due to this.
Another case was a stewardess who came out of quarantine over a week ago. Was tested negative on 12th day. On day came out fortunately had a routine weekly test from her airline. Then went to a shopping centre and walk in the city and then dinner out. Whilst out for dinner informed positive and went into isolation. 2/3 others from dinner venue contracted it. Normal variant.
Oz has been very lucky with the virus so far but main factor is probably because an island and shut off most flights. Very difficult to actually leave here at tte moment. However a problem is we keep getting lockdowns between states. If Victoria has an outbreak other states will stop Victorians entering and vice versa. Some of the lockdowns have been due to less than 5 cases (ie. Western Oz). Same applies To NZ. All the lockdowns killing tourism as people hesitant to book anything. Not helping that it is now school holidays and the virus is making a habit of ruining holidays.
Unfortunately having lockdowns is considered an election winning strategy. Only one death from the virus in the whole country this year. Two from the vaccine.
Our main vaccine has been AZ. Originally all encouraged to get it. Then they said only over 50's. This later became over 60's. Just yesterday said Dr's given immunity if something happens to a patient they jab. Now after saying only over 60's they are trying to get more people to take AZ. Seems we have a problem with vaccine hesitancy ! Until recently this included our Premier, Health Minister and Chief Medical Officer who despite encouraging others. had not been jabbed.
Here the strategy seems to be total elimination and nothing else matters (ie. Jobs, cost, ruined holidays, school closures). One of the worst aspects is the strictness of the lockdowns which has prevented loved ones attempting to get to visit dying relatives from other states.
However overall been very lucky despite me personally not being a lockdown fan.
