Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@Nepia said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Stargazer I didn't realise there was a Ruby Princess cluster in Shield Snorters.
I read that as Rugby Princess Cluster in Shield Snorters.
I'll leave it there.
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@Snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Stargazer I didn't realise there was a Ruby Princess cluster in Shield Snorters.
I read that as Rugby Princess Cluster in Shield Snorters.
I'll leave it there.
From predator to victim in one fowl sweep.
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Today we are reporting two new confirmed cases of COVID-19. One case is linked to the St Margaret’s Hospital & Rest Home in Auckland. The individual is not a healthcare worker - they are a household contact of an earlier case linked to St Margaret's. They have been in self-isolation since that case was notified. The second is a person who has travelled back from overseas, so is an imported case. Today’s cases bring New Zealand’s combined total of confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases to 1,494. This is made up of 1,144 confirmed cases, which is the number we report to the World Health Organization, and 350 probable cases. We now have 1,371 people reported as having recovered from COVID-19, an increase of 3 on yesterday. This is 92% of all confirmed and probable cases. Today there are again two people in hospital with COVID-19 – one each in Middlemore and North Shore hospitals. Neither is in ICU. We still have 16 significant clusters, four of which are now closed. The number of cases linked to the Ruby Princess cruise ship increases by 1, due to the linking of an existing case. There are no additional deaths to report. Yesterday our laboratories processed 7,287 tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 190,326.
The number of active cases is now 102.
https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/2-new-cases-covid-19-3
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@Mokey said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I'm gonna be so, so pissed if all these breaches result in a prolonged stay at L3.
they run the risk of civil disobedience if they push on with L3 for too long. There's a lot of people just holding on, when the risk appears to be very very low right now.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Mokey said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I'm gonna be so, so pissed if all these breaches result in a prolonged stay at L3.
they run the risk of civil disobedience if they push on with L3 for too long. There's a lot of people just holding on, when the risk appears to be very very low right now.
With 100 active cases, no community transmission, no overseas travel (which seems to be the main way to get it), those breaches have little to no risk.
They should be opening schools on Wednesday too, not next week.
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It'd be fascinating to be a fly on the wall in Cabinet this morning.
I'm wondering if or when they'll bring in the regional differences in the Levels mooted early on. Places like Gisborne with a very low number of cases (all recovered?) seemed like a sensible way of releasing the tension safely.
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
It'd be fascinating to be a fly on the wall in Cabinet this morning.
I'm wondering if or when they'll bring in the regional differences in the Levels mooted early on. Places like Gisborne with a very low number of cases (all recovered?) seemed like a sensible way of releasing the tension safely.
I hope not as that means Auckland will never get out of lockdown, and that's a quarter of the country.
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@Kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
It'd be fascinating to be a fly on the wall in Cabinet this morning.
I'm wondering if or when they'll bring in the regional differences in the Levels mooted early on. Places like Gisborne with a very low number of cases (all recovered?) seemed like a sensible way of releasing the tension safely.
I hope not as that means Auckland will never get out of lockdown, and that's a quarter of the country.
I think the case is there for Level 2 across the board, I guess I'm thinking the case was there for Gisborne over a week ago. In future if they need to make any adjustments upwards, I'd like it to be tried by region only in the first instance.
Let's hope upwards isn't needed at all in the future, but the news item out of Seoul over the weekend about bars closing again after a bar hopping Covid case was a bit depressing.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Mokey said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I'm gonna be so, so pissed if all these breaches result in a prolonged stay at L3.
they run the risk of civil disobedience if they push on with L3 for too long. There's a lot of people just holding on, when the risk appears to be very very low right now.
yeah thats the worry if they push people too far
I think NOrthland has 1 active case and like Gisborne, 3 weeks without a new case. ..the regional thing could be an option, but ideally, you want everyone to come out at same time, otherwise that will be a headache to police.
I got an email from google telling me all the places I visited in April...HOme, Home, Home, Home, HOme, Kamo, Home, Home, Home...you get the picture
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@Donsteppa It sure was. I hope we have clamped down enough, for long enough that we don't get thrown onto that path. The thing I'm worried about is the second wave. And people forgetting that all the measures that helped contain this virus (eg washing your goddamned hands, staying at home if unwell) would go a long way to helping contain flu season.
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@Kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
It'd be fascinating to be a fly on the wall in Cabinet this morning.
I'm wondering if or when they'll bring in the regional differences in the Levels mooted early on. Places like Gisborne with a very low number of cases (all recovered?) seemed like a sensible way of releasing the tension safely.
I hope not as that means Auckland will never get out of lockdown, and that's a quarter of the country.
It will certainly mean Matamata will remain in lockdown as one of the significant clusters. That would really tear my nightie!!!
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Media release
11 May 2020Today we are reporting three new confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Two cases are linked to the St Margaret’s Hospital & Rest Home in Auckland. The individuals are both nurses at Waitakere Hospital.
Both had been asymptomatic throughout a stand-down period which they spent in precautionary self-isolation at home.
They were tested as part of routine requirements for their safe return to work and the results came back positive. They remain in isolation awaiting further testing. Although further cases in clusters cannot be ruled out, strong precautionary measures remain in place at the hospital and the St Margaret's facility.
The third case is a person who has travelled back from overseas, so is an imported case.
Today’s cases bring New Zealand’s combined total of confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases to 1,497.
This is made up of 1,147 confirmed cases, which is the number we report to the World Health Organization, and 350 probable cases.
We now have 1,386 people reported as having recovered from COVID-19, an increase of 15 on yesterday. This is 93% of all confirmed and probable cases.
Today there are again two people in hospital with COVID-19 – one each in Middlemore and North Shore hospitals. Neither is in ICU.
We still have 16 significant clusters, four of which are now closed.
There are no additional deaths to report.
Yesterday our laboratories processed 3865 tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 194,191.
There will be a further COVID-19 update from the Government at 4 pm today.
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@Tim While it is disappointing that we're still seeing new cases, it's a good sign that the new cases of the last few days have been from the same cluster (St Margaret’s) or coming from overseas. I assume we'll continue to get cases from overseas now and then, but that St Margaret's cluster will eventually stop as well, if all rules around distancing and self-isolation are observed and contract tracing works well.
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@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
An interesting question is how long people would put up with level 3 if it meant going to level 1 earlier, and what the trade-offs would be.
If it means people not being able to work I think it will get increasingly hard to take