Coronavirus - New Zealand
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so 3 new cases today, all linked to the guy who had been tested and left iso.
Also
Another six historic cases, which date back to February, were also announced on Wednesday. Those cases were part of an historic cluster in the Waikato.
The ministry said they posed no risk to the public.
The historic cases came to light after a man recently developed a sore throat and was swabbed for Covid-19.
The test returned a “weak positive result” that in addition to tests of his antibodies, led doctors to believe he had an old Covid-19 infection.
He likely contracted the virus from a family member who fell ill while visiting New Zealand from Italy.
The relative had symptoms of Covid-19 when they arrived in New Zealand on February 21– a week before what had been considered the country's first case of coronavirus was confirmed.
Other people living in the same house as the man also became unwell.
However, the household were not tested for coronavirus at the time because they had not travelled from or transited through China.
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@taniwharugby amazing how much these fuckers get around. I move in about a radius of 30 minutes drive at all times during my week
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby amazing how much these fuckers get around. I move in about a radius of 30 minutes drive at all times during my week
Yep, I'm pretty much keeping myself home as I have a few health issues. Annoying watching other people just fuck it all up.
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oh man
So this guy has retruned negative result to day 3 test and day 10 or whenever the 2nd test is, yet couldnt wait the final 2 days to get out having arrived on 16/09, so tied sheets together to escape...he is a deportee from Aussie, so surely these people need to have a bit more attention put on them?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
he is a deportee from Aussie
That's looking like a good decision.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
he is a deportee from Aussie
That's looking like a good decision.
Surely we must have N isolated island somewhere we can quarantine deportees?
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so this dude has escaped form a 4th floor window, visible from a busy street in Auckland, and no one saw a sheet dangling from a window and a guy climbing down? Probably more likely to get thier phones and and film it to show friends later in the day...
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@taniwharugby in a rush to be first posting it up on FB or IG more likely!
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Been a week since our last community case?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Been a week since our last community case?
Level 1 here we come
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so 1 new case, in managed isolation.
Just 8 of the 41 active cases left in NZ are from community spread...you'd have to say Auckland are well on track to go back to L1 from midnight Wednesday.
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@taniwharugby Agree, seems likely.
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I think there would be an insurrection if we didn't go back to L1 plus the election y'all.
However I have to say people haven't learned anything from Lockdown 2.0. Three weeks ago we had that nurse that visited Les Mills etc and it looked like we could be in trouble but contact tracing worked really well - fast and efficient and a cluster never developed.
We have to accept the border will be breached again. We should put in place every measure we can come up with to ensure this doesn't happen but it's naïve to expect perfection. We have seen cases where someone was infectious after more than 14 days, cases of transmission from hard surfaces etc.
So have we all taken this to heart and are using the contact tracing app religiously so that any future community outbreak can be minimised? Are we fuck. My observation at the weekend in Auckland and Hamilton would be 1 in 20 scan in Akl and none in Hamilton. Seriously it's not that hard to do. Takes seconds and if it minimises the economic ruin of another extended lockdown then get with the programme people
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@dogmeat yeah I was up in Paihia on Saturday with friends who were up from Auckland, they werent using the app, and when I scanned it he said he didnt even have it on his phone.
Certainly complacency out there I think, but I agree, these little breakouts will happen, but we need to try to manage these without sending people into lockdown
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@dogmeat Yep, for a few weeks there there was a queue at the door of most shops to use the contract tracing app. Now's it's back to the days of 'being in the way' when you stop at the door to use it...
it's bollocks. So simple to do, and yet people aren't doing it. Frustrating.
I can see the argument 'for' a Covid Card or similar - but then people have to actually use it, the privacy implications, etc. That said, a big 'ding' when you scan that people can check would be worth it - and businesses culturally insisting on it
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
So have we all taken this to heart and are using the contact tracing app religiously so that any future community outbreak can be minimised? Are we fuck. My observation at the weekend in Auckland and Hamilton would be 1 in 20 scan in Akl and none in Hamilton.
Where exactly were you? I've scanned the app twice this morning and I see a decent amount of people using it. Even the oldies tend to manually sign in.
I think the only way to ensure compliance is for a staff member to be at the entrance of any shop so no scan/sign in, no entry. Of course they want people in the door.
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I think the only way to ensure compliance is for a staff member to be at the entrance of any shop so no scan/sign in, no entry. Of course they want people in the door.
yeah but then you usually rely on some kid working there to enforce the rule, I personally wouldnt have issue with it, but we know some will.