Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@donsteppa possibly due to infectiousness at the time?
WHo knows?
@JK that a new case, or one earlier?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@donsteppa possibly due to infectiousness at the time?
WHo knows?
@JK that a new case, or one earlier?
Ahh may have been in news earlier? I don’t really watch it. Just another pretty local school that the kids play sports against
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@donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Interesting that there's been no Coromandel news so far, hopefully that's a good sign re: the geographic extensiveness of the spread.
I’m highly surprised by this. Was fearing the worst for down there
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@jk said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@donsteppa possibly due to infectiousness at the time?
WHo knows?
@JK that a new case, or one earlier?
Ahh may have been in news earlier? I don’t really watch it. Just another pretty local school that the kids play sports against
Actually just opened the nzherald app and it’s scrolling in a red banner so suspect it’s recent
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@sparky on another thread mentioned how well Ireland is doing with the vaccination so I went to check out their rates and he's right they are doing really well. Much better than us.
It's interesting to compare the last couple of months of fully vaccinated individuals:
Ireland
May 30: 0.51M
Aug 17: 3.14MNZ
May 30: 0.22M
Aug 17: 0.95MSo in 80 days they increased their fully vaccinated count by 2.6M. We increased it by 0.73M. I don't have the actual historical dose figures otherwise I'd use that, but this still seems incredibly poor. What's going on in NZ? Do we not have the supply? Or is it bureaucracy? Or is it complacency?
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@frye said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@sparky on another thread mentioned how well Ireland is doing with the vaccination so I went to check out their rates and he's right they are doing really well. Much better than us.
It's interesting to compare the last couple of months of fully vaccinated individuals:
Ireland
May 30: 0.51M
Aug 17: 3.14MNZ
May 30: 0.22M
Aug 17: 0.95MSo in 80 days they increased their fully vaccinated count by 2.6M. We increased it by 0.73M. I don't have the actual historical dose figures otherwise I'd use that, but this still seems incredibly poor. What's going on in NZ? Do we not have the supply? Or is it bureaucracy? Or is it complacency?
We didn't have the supply for a fair chunk of that time you mention. And spent if flat lining until the ramp up started in July.
Doing about 300k a week now, and increasing (until this lockdown), so would also be on target to also possibly do 2.6m in 80 days.
NZ started about 3 months after most western countries and ramped up slower (maybe 5 months after most of europe going gang busters) as didn't push hard on supply back when demand was huge.
It is false economy. But, I have to admit back when they were saying they could take time to choose best vaccine etc, I felt ok with that choice. So, it would be hypocritical of me to project my urgency now back to Feb / March. Delta changed the risk profile in hindsight, but no place is going to get this pandemic correct 100% of the time. C'est la vie.
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How are people actually getting masks now? They aren't handing them out as you enter a supermarket so if you don't have one how do you get them? I'm giving them out because I have them, but it is a bit fucked mandating the use of them when they aren't available.
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I expect the announcement today is rest of NZ will remain under L4 through to Wednesday with Auckland, but I really hope they have borders as tight as they can, because if cases continue to stay in Auckland, they need to be looking at reducing levels elsewhere.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@bovidae said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
My local supermarket was handing them out at the entrance. They must still sell them too.
I have to go to supermarket later so will be interested to see.
They were selling 25 packs for $7 a box at Countdown the other day, non medical though so who knows how effective they are.
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Arse.
Covid cases in Wellington
RNZ understands there are now two positive cases of Covid-19 in Wellington.
It's understood the cases are part of the same family and in the suburb of Miramar.
The capital's due to move out of Alert Level 4 at midnight - but an announcement about any level changes will be made this afternoon.