Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@stargazer the list is getting longer. Yay. Not.
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I'm still hoping that it's like the cases over summer. 1,589 close contacts, a hundred places visited in five days, no further infections.
How well that luck will hold against Delta is anyones guess. Hopefully the fact that the person has already had one AZ dose will help our cause...
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so the traveller had had 1 of his 2 vaccine doses, greater Wellington has almost 20k with both doses...
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
so the traveller had had 1 of his 2 vaccine doses, greater Wellington has almost 20k with both doses...
20,000 out of a population of?…
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
so the traveller had had 1 of his 2 vaccine doses, greater Wellington has almost 20k with both doses...
i am astounded the figures for first and second doses are so similar.
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@donsteppa that's the bit that has me worried. We know the ol Delta variant is a right hoe. It has been beautiful down here lately, aka fucking cold. I don't know if that decreases chance of spread, or everyone finding somewhere warm to hang out (in close quarters) makes it worse!
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@mariner4life possibly due to those being older and high risk folks - probably in homes or close contact with health authorities? would expect the 1st/2nd jab stats to widen once we start to jab more of our general population.
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@taniwharugby always good to be ahead of the random number generator!
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
so the traveller had had 1 of his 2 vaccine doses, greater Wellington has almost 20k with both doses...
Hutt Valley is reported seperately in that table.
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@donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby always good to be ahead of the random number generator!
Imagine what the discourse would be like if we were behind the random number generator.
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Four close contacts of a Sydney man who tested positive for Covid-19 after spending the weekend in Wellington have returned negative results.
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From the media conference:
The case worked in a "healthcare setting" in Sydney that was near to the Bondi Junction where most recent Sydney cases originate. One of the cases identified in Sydney, had been treated in that healthcare setting. So there's a close epidemiological link.
The case had the first dose of the vaccine about 10 weeks ago, but not the second.
It's very fortunate that this case used the Covid Tracer App frequently during his visit to Wellington, and that the close contact he was with for most of the weekend, did so as well.
Of the 4 close contacts, 2 are in Palmerston North and 2 in Tauranga. They have been isolating since last night. They've all tested negative. The two in Tauranga had a far more fleeting interaction with the case and for a much shorter time.
There were 58 people - all considered close contacts - on the flight from Sydney to Wellington on Saturday morning.
By the way, I received this alert on my phone:
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@stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The two in Tauranga had a far more fleeting interaction with the case and for a much shorter time.
the worrying part is, they reckon the new variant could be passed simply by passing one another in the street