Yeah nah. I’ll wait for 6 months like was originally stated.
The vaccinated people brought it in to tas, being vaccinated doesn’t stop spreading it.
from tas gov site pre border opening.
Tasmania remains on track to reopen its borders on December 15 to fully vaccinated travellers, with strong protocols in place, including quarantine and testing for those who are unvaccinated, and mandatory testing 72 hours prior to travel for people arriving from high-risk jurisdictions.
hindsight maybe Peter kept borders up a little longer. but there was plenty of pressure from scomo to open.
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Better COVID than pneumonia!
I find the QLD dashboard colour scheme the most appealing of all states/territories.
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Queensland man in thirties dies at home, confirmed +ve through test, seemingly post mortem, referred to Coroner, understood to be vaxed.
NZ 27000
Congrats VIC for reaching 50,000 fortnightly cases. Almost 100,000 behind NSW… or as that’s otherwise known, one week.
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Who knew that meant waiting and waiting and waiting in a car queue.
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Studies from the Olympic Games in Japan using genomic sequencing show that COVID was kept strictly within the Olympic Bubble and therefore never entered the community - This augurs well for the Winter Olympics in China - Strange how there was much public pressure on the IOC to cancel the Summer Olympics when there was much less cases of COVID but no COVID related pressures on whether to hold the Winter Olympics when there are higher rates of COVID infections world-wide.
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Here’s why testing turnaround times are longer
Victoria’s COVID Commander Jeroen Weimar that’s due to changes in lab procedures.
"When we were running at lower rates of positivity, we would pool all of our samples together — we’d essentially batch them up and run them through the labs.
"And only when we find a positive rate in a group of tests retest that subset to work which cases were positive.
"Because of the very high rate of positivity we’re now seeing in all of our tests, every single test is now processed individually through all of our labs.
“That means it takes us longer to process individual test results.”
How much longer?
"We usually have a hallmark of nine out of 10 tests coming back by the next day.
"We’re now seeing a third of our test results coming back by the next day.
“We’re seeing half of our test results coming back within two days.”
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That has been the same as most other states I believe. I still believe NSW is not testing individual samples
Brother manged to get himself into some COVID mischief down at Torquay over NYE.
I’m t-minus 5 days to Tas. Need to do one more shopping trip tomorrow morning then I’m bunkering down to avoid the rest of you sickly lot.
Did you walk straight up the main road or is there a hiking path to the top?
edit probably should have looked at the photos in the other thread first 
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I find that hard to believe. Many people I’ve spoken to, including myself, had to wait upwards of 5 days
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Was that through a Vic Health run testing site, or a 4Cyte run testing site? Most of my local ones are 4Cyte.
Most people I know are waiting upward of 4 days as well, and I’m not sure which sites they’re getting tested at.
I got tested through a Melbourne pathology drive through testing site in Dallas
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