Lockdown in NSW
She should have put Sydney in Lock down three weeks ago.
Also people that work with Homes for the elderly should have had their Jab months ago.
A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw (pictured left) has questioned the Prime Minister over Australia's current vaccination rate - with Scott Morrison responding by claiming 30,000 lives have been saved across the nation during the pandemic. Morrison (pictured right) then dismissed talk of a 100 per cent vaccination target in Australia and stated the government's focus since 2020 has been saving lives and jobs.
'Other countries are moving forward with opening up because they have had millions of people who have actually contracted the virus and there is more antibodies in that population," he said.
'Globally speaking, we have a low rate of deaths in this country, and that has been a state and federal level focus.
'We have also seen our economy recognised as one of the best performing in the world. During this pandemic we have created jobs and seen less deaths... we have delivered that as a government.
'Our main focus is saving lives and saving livelihoods.'
The prime minister told Grimshaw, 'We've saved 30,000 lives here in Australia.'
In NSW on Friday, 44 new cases of Covid were recorded, including 27 people who were infectious in the community. It is the highest number of daily infections in the state since the pandemic's first wave in early 2020.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has suggested the lockdown could again be extended beyond July 16, as restrictions for residents in Greater Sydney were further tightened at 5pm on Friday.
Do you think NSW should have gone into lockdown earlier?
Selfish people that do not think of others.
Angry authorities have promised to 'throw the book' at the Sydney removalists who ignored strict Covid protocol and took the high-infectious Delta strain from Sydney and into Melbourne - as Victoria prepares to enter another lockdown The removalists drove in two separate trucks from a Covid hotspot in Sydney's south-west on July 8, stopping at a series of fast food restaurants and petrol stations before delivering furniture to a home in Melbourne's north and the Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong, in Melbourne's inner west. The men triggered the city's latest outbreak, leaving residents facing another lockdown on Thursday night - and Victoria's Covid-19 response commander has promised criminal sanction against the men.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has hit back at a reporter who demanded she plunge Sydneysiders into a tougher lockdown - bombarding her with relentless questions about whether restrictions will be eased by August.
The fiery clash with Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell came during a press conference on Thursday morning where Ms Berejiklian announced 65 new cases in the city, of which 28 had been in the community while infectious.
'Premier, you have locked us down for three weeks and now you are look locking us down for another two weeks,' Mr Clennell said.
Lookout Victoria!
Victoria is expected to head into another lockdown amid rising cases in the state.
Premier Daniel Andrews will be making an announcement regarding the latest infections at 4.45pm this afternoon.
Two additional cases were recorded today in an adult and a minor who watched the Geelong vs Carlton game on Saturday afternoon on Level Two of the MCC Members' Reserve at the MCG.
The infected pair are not known contacts of the other two positive men who watched the match in the same area, including a man in his 60s who went to the game while asymptomatic.
Health authorities continue to investigate the latest transmissions.
Exposure sites across Victoria continue to climb as the outbreak grows.
Three removalists allegedly knew they were infected with coronavirus before they drove out of southwest Sydney. The men aged 20, 27 and 27 travelled from West Hoxton to Figtree in Wollongong, before stopping at multiple regional areas on their way to Molong, in NSW's central west (locations visited pictured above). Police caught up with the trio on Speedy street in Molong about 2.30pm on July 16 after being notified of the men who travelled from Sydney. Police escorted the men and their vehicles back to Sydney, and have been told to isolate for 14 days, before allegedly being issued Court Attendance Notices for breaching public health orders. In the past 24 hours police have issued 162 Penalty Infringement Notices and charged 18 people.
The Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and more contagious and virulent than many other viruses like SARS, MERS and smallpox. Here is a copy and paste of part of an article in the NY Times:
AnalysisCoronavirus pandemicBreakthrough COVID infections a reality check on road to normality"There are roughly 35,000 symptomatic infections per week among 162 million vaccinated Americans, according to data collected by the CDC as of July 24 that was cited in the internal presentation. But the agency does not track all mild or asymptomatic infections, so the actual incidence may be higher.
Infection with the Delta variant produces virus amounts in the airways that are tenfold higher than what is seen in people infected with the alpha variant, which is also highly contagious, the document noted.
The amount of virus in a person infected with Delta is a thousandfold more than what is seen in people infected with the original version of the virus, according to one recent study.
The agency’s document relies on data from multiple studies, including an analysis of a recent outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which began after the town’s Fourth of July festivities. By Thursday, that cluster had grown to 882 cases. About 74 per cent were vaccinated, local health officials have said.
Detailed analysis of the spread of cases showed that people infected with Delta carry enormous amounts of virus in their nose and throat, regardless of vaccination status, according to the CDC document."
Nevertheless, the article states that the vaccines are protecting people from getting more serious illness so do get vaccinated everyone. Don't however believe that vaccinated people are not passing it on.
I wish Glady would define what is an 'essential' business, shops selling high end handbags (over $1000) and other expensive fashion items are still open, yet I can't get my hair cut and it's driving me mad.