Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@smudge said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@rapido tbh the central city is so small if you have even a small % of office folks working from home it can feel pretty empty.
Felt bloody empty today. You could swing several dead cats tied together while walking along the footpath on Willis Street at lunchtime today and not hit anyone. You'd piss off some dreadlocked Greenies, mind you. Gareth Morgan, not so much.
Honey Badger Saloon was closed. WTF.
That severely impaired my 5-a-week fruit/vege goal, as their "Garbage Salad" contributes heavily towards that quota. -
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
so are people wearing masks on flights?
In my experience, yes (and its still mandatory even at level 1). Air NZ won't let people board without one, and Qantas is probably the same for trips to NZ.
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@siam said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@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
Surely this doesn't pass as "science"?
Are we basically using the same level of scientific observation that we use when booboo goes to bed to get a wicket?🙂Actually, don't answer that - I'm afraid of the answer😉
Are you questioning my skill as a wicket taker?
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Wellytown to stay in L2 for further 48 hours
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Interesting that the partner of this case initially tested negative, but has now had a positive test result.
I’ve been mostly ‘meh’ about this one given the partner and other close contacts had all tested negative almost immediately, as well as negative wastewater testing in Welly. I still hope to remain ‘meh’, but continue to wonder how long our luck holds with the slow vaccine rollout.
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@donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
So:
- Delta
- "2609 people were classified as close or casual plus contacts"
- No further infections identified other than the man's Australian partner
Back to Level 1 in Wellington at midnight.
You can understand the panic with contagiousness like that!
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@stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Maybe the fact that he had had one vaccination has something to do with not infecting more people?
If that is true, even more reason the get everyone vaccinated
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stating the obvious with the headline
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@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Got my text alert that I'm in Group 3 and will get a vaccine appointment in a few weeks. Group 4 starts in the end of July.
Group 3 seems to be the over 65s and people with underlying health conditions. So slowly getting through.
The Times is reporting today that Israel is on the verge of destroying a million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine unless they can find someone to take them. Meanwhile here in NZ there is insufficient supply, and a minister who says it would be "unethical" to pay extra to access more.
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@taniwharugby It seems like they are willing to give them away. They got a flood of early doses from Pfizer in exchange for a promise to make all of the resulting data open source. But as they were some of the earlier batches they are expiring soon.
Israel didn't join the Covax scheme to give unused doses to developing countries because they assumed they would be giving them to Palestine but that has fallen through:
"A plan to transfer most of the extra doses to the West Bank fell through last month. The Palestinian leadership cancelled the transfer after media reports that the doses were soon to expire, despite having been aware of the timeline. Only a small fraction of the West Bank population has been fully vaccinated."
The hurdle seems to be getting them to a country that is geared up to get them distributed and into people's arms before the expiry date. Most developing countries won't have the infrastructure in place to make that happen, I guess.
If I was the boss of the world I'd be looking at a tripartite swap - get the short duration ones to somewhere like the UK who can administer them immediately, get the UK to give an equal number of longer duration ones to Covax and back-order the same number for Israel's next round. But what do I know, I'm a known idiot.
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@jc said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Got my text alert that I'm in Group 3 and will get a vaccine appointment in a few weeks. Group 4 starts in the end of July.
Group 3 seems to be the over 65s and people with underlying health conditions. So slowly getting through.
The Times is reporting today that Israel is on the verge of destroying a million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine unless they can find someone to take them. Meanwhile here in NZ there is insufficient supply, and a minister who says it would be "unethical" to pay extra to access more.
Seems an obvious thing for NZ to go grab them, even if we have to pay. THe cost is lower than constant lockdowns.
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@jc said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
If I was the boss of the world I'd be looking at a tripartite swap - get the short duration ones to somewhere like the UK who can administer them immediately, get the UK to give an equal number of longer duration ones to Covax and back-order the same number for Israel's next round. But what do I know, I'm a known idiot.
sounds way too logical, it would never work!