Macali is playing around with the current first dose average as well as second doses to project dates.
We’re looking at mid to late October to early to mid November for 70 and 80% respectively. As I’ve been saying….
Macali is playing around with the current first dose average as well as second doses to project dates.
We’re looking at mid to late October to early to mid November for 70 and 80% respectively. As I’ve been saying….
Szelja (ACT Senator Assistant Minister for South Pacific) talking about streamline visa, zero quarantine in Australia for seasonal workers from Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga as Covid free; plus Fiji ( which has a lot of Covid) because of high vax rate.
No vax requirements to be placed on them he said.
If they enter before Australia opens the borders to vaxed Australians who must do quarantine …
@Heffsgirl Szelja was also critical of the extension of ACT lockdown, as in his view it lacks compassion and balance .Did not air his views on the impact of NSW decisions on ACT , or differential NSW measures within Sydney and the Sydney centric approach to vax distribution.
No one wants a lockdown, but everyone I’ve talked to understands the need to do so and focus on vaccination levels. We are beholden to NSW so it is reasonable to view NSW in parallel to what’s happening in the ACT.
nah we were all at the beach!
3 current exposure sites in Ballarat as the city records 2 positive cases. Well that was fun while it lasted
The Hun reporting a Ballarat tradie +ve
different to the one announced today at the presser?
Behind paywall Could be the same person as the construction worker who works in Melbourne .
ABC reporting 2 - child at Clarendon College and construction worker.
Multiple cases down in Wallington (Bellarine Peninsula), exposures at the Coles in Ocean Grove.
Has to be in one household. Wallington is not really a town, very sparsely populated.
OG exposure site from a worker who lives in Melbourne and works in OG (strangely)
There’s a long way to play out yet to find a balance that works to allow as many freedoms as practical while still keeping numbers under control.
For mine, the Doherty modelling spells out quite a few assumptions that seem pretty unlikely to be accurate to arrive at its conclusions, whereas Burnett modelling seems to be make a few more realistic assumptions.
I also noted Gladys’ speech yesterday talking about pushing for higher vaccination levels of 85-90% in order to be able to have more freedom when we open up.
I’m pretty happy to see NSW numbers turning a corner, but let’s not forget that this is while in lockdown. Achieving the same results when out of lockdown is a very different thing. Getting the balance of continuing requirements right when we open up will be tough, and many of those requirements are likely to be largely ignored anyway, if recent history is anything to go by.
Didn’t you drink us dry last visit??
This would be a Kerry Chant thing.
Around a month ago, Gladys kept saying 80% of the adult population and Kerry would say 80% of the entire population.
Im sure Gladys will remind everyone that she has always advocated for 80% of the entire population though…
Geelong Advertiser quotes Coles rep as saying one infected who worked at the Waurn Ponds, the other at the OG Coles - both essential workers residing in Melbourne.
My wife went for a walk this afternoon, heading into evening. She passed 2 teenagers on bikes. One of them went out of his way to cough at her as he passed, because she was wearing a mask.
There are a few in the community who like to make their protests “heard”.
Had a fair crack.
Got 16 days off in Mid October and was originally going to tie it in to a WA work trip but I’ve cancelled the work trip so don’t need to go to WA now.
I’ve got a hire car and going to do a lap of Tassie
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Should have put a stick through his spokes.
A lap of the map!!
Done it once for work and let the young bloke, now 37, drive to get his hours up for his license. Went gray early!!
Yep, still haven’t been on the WCWR so that’s the only must do thing but the rest of the trip is open