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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1978858, member: 81934"] 23 December = DELTA WAVE Day 189 & OMICRON TSUSAMI Day 15 < OUTIDE NSW > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VIC 23/12/2021 VIC VIC recorded 1980 LOCAL cases , VIC local total for DELTA WAVE now 132839 cases. 1536 mystery cases. 25 repats from o/seas. VIC recorded 10 delta deaths. VIC POSITIVITY = 2.36% [img]https://i.postimg.cc/cC38vyfK/23dec2021-VIC-DAILY-TESTS-AND-POSITIVITY.png[/img] VIC Reff = 1.02 [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/02xNYwsX/23-DEC2021-VIC-DAILY-Reff.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/85KbRSFt/23dec2021-victoria-delta-wave-D65-on.png[/IMG] INDOOR MASK MANDATE REINSTATED Victorians young and old must don masks inside this holiday season under a reinstated mandate to curtail the spread of the Omicron variant.2 days out from Christmas and as the state recorded 2005 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths, Acting Premier James Merlino ordered masks for those aged 8 and up in hospitality, entertainment and office settings from 11.59pm on Thursday. Masks will also be required at all major events with more than 30,000 patrons, including the Boxing Day Test at the MCG, but can be removed while seated outdoors. They do not need to be worn in households. Mr Merlino described the measures, which will remain until at least January 12, as modest. "This is a sensible response which will allow businesses to stay open, bars and restaurants to continue to stay open and major events to go ahead,". Before the Omicron variant emerged Victorian planned to relax mask requirements, but last week kept them in retail settings, for hospitality workers and on public transport. Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said uncertainty surrounding the new strain lingered, but early evidence suggests it could be a fifth as virulent compared to Delta and far more infectious. << This has been revised , as further studies indicate Omicron is nearly as virulent as Delta and still far more virulent than other strains. "New South Wales has 15 times the (case) number they had just a couple of weeks ago," he said. "One-fifth as severe but 15 times as many cases is going to be a challenge to a health system. So we need to do everything we can." Professor Sutton argued the mask mandate was needed to achieve greater compliance, saying about 50 per cent of people follow a "strong recommendation" compared to up to 99 per cent for an explicit order. Victorians are also recommended to work from home over the festive season and hospitality venues asked to consider seated service-only. A lockdown is not being considered because of Victoria's high vaccination rate. Prof Sutton stressed the urgency of the dose interval being shortened from five months, despite his former deputy and ATAGI co-chair Allen Cheng last week saying an early booster could provide less protection and interfere with later variant vaccines. "We can't just think about how things might look in July of next year," he said. "We need to think about what the immediate challenge is for those individuals who are not sufficiently protected until they've got that booster." Thursday's case number is the state's highest since October 22. Another 10 Omicron cases have been identified, taking Victoria's total to 71. TESTING OVERWHELMED Christmas rush pushes testing sites to capacity as soon as they open. By about 7.15am on Thursday, at least nine sites were forced to temporarily suspend operations after they reached full capacity. The sites included Deakin University's Burwood site, Central Bayside Community Health Services at Cheltenham, Northern Hospital drive and walk-through sites at Glenroy Hall, Hampstead Road, Bourke Street and Wantirna. By about 8am, the list of testing sites that had to close because they were over capacity had grown to about 18 on the Victorian government's website. About 8.15am, the wait time at Hume City Council was listed as 30 minutes, and at Keilor Basketball Netball Stadium, Melton Football Club, Mickleham Road in Tullamarine and Victoria University's St Albans Campus, it was 90 minutes. The wait time was 120 minutes for the Aughtie Walk drive-through facility at Albert Park. On Wednesday, Victoria's COVID-19 Response Commander Jeroen Weimar called for more "sensible" travel rules across the country to take the pressure off the state's testing system, with more than a quarter of recent tests done for people intending to head interstate. Mr Weimar said he hoped fewer people would clog up the state's testing system for "bureaucratic reasons". "It is not a highly productive way to use a PCR testing system, and of course, it puts additional pressure on, so the additional queues and waiting times we're seeing at the moment are a by-product of that. We hope to move to a more sensible arrangement in future," Mr Weimar said. "Just jamming up the system with people who particularly are asymptomatic, particularly if they haven't been close contacts, if they're just needing tests for some other kind of bureaucratic reason — that's the kind of stuff that I think we'd like to reduce." Twenty testing sites in greater Melbourne were turning people away on Wednesday, with queues blowing out to four hours and extended wait-times ruining holiday plans. The issue was canvassed at national cabinet on Wednesday with the states and territories agreeing to look into reduced demands for PCR tests in favour of rapid testing. REGIONAL Christmas visits and gatherings are likely to be cancelled for residents of two Wimmera aged care facilities, after a specialist who visited them early this week later tested positive for COVID-19. The Grampians Public Health Unit (GPHU) in Victoria's west says residents identified as a close contact of the specialist must remain confined to their area of their care facility for seven days from yesterday.The residents are spread across Wimmera Health Care Group facilities in Horsham and Dimboola, and all staff and residents who came into contact with the specialist have been tested. The GPHU's Rob Grenfell is urging people to work with the management of the facilities to see if they can visit their loved ones. A spokesperson says about 100 residents are awaiting test results, but there is no risk of exposure to people outside the two facilities. They say in most cases people are waiting 48 hours for test results to return, but it is as little as 24 hours for healthcare workers. A COVID-safe Christmas In a statement, Dr Grenfell sympathised with the families of those residents affected. "We understand how disappointing this news will be for the residents and families who may have had plans to celebrate Christmas together," he said. "It has been such a difficult two years and we all want the pandemic to be over but unfortunately we have a way to go." Dr Grenfell urged people to consider gathering outside, physically distance, sanitise their hands regularly and use rapid antigen tests prior to attending Christmas events in the interests of keeping their loved ones safe. Robinvale cases expected to rise Meanwhile, the health service in Robinvale is concerned by a growing COVID-19 outbreak.The Robinvale District Health Service's COVID lead, Anita Erlandsen, says it is likely there will be a surge in case numbers over the Christmas weekend, and that the outbreak has come at the worst possible time. “We’ve got limited [access to] doctors. It’s also the Christmas break. It just is like everything’s come together to make a bad situation worse,” she told the ABC. “It’s in a population with a lot of comorbidities, like diabetes and chronic lung disease, so they’re already behind the eight ball, in terms of being able to recover quickly. "Robinvale has a very small hospital which is also connected to our aged care facility, so we really don’t have capacity to see people in the facility with active COVID." She said the same staff operating the town’s aged care service and its urgent care centre were also the ones doing testing, and testing has had to be limited to three hours a day as a result. "We are, like all health services across Australia at the moment, extremely short-staffed," she said. Ms Erlandsen said four Robinvale residents were in ICU, in Melbourne or Bendigo. "Given the number of tests we’ve done on symptomatic people, I expect [cases] to rise considerably," she said. "I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another 50 or so in the next couple of days." There are currently 37 cases in Robinvale after 11 yesterday. Ms Erlandsen said that anyone isolating at home who needs food or medical supplies can contact the Robinvale District Health Service to have it delivered to their door. The Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council is also doing a food run on Friday to ensure no households are without adequate food on Christmas day. Residents can contact the Robinvale hospital to book a delivery. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ACT 23/12/2021 ACT ACT recorded 84 LOCAL cases , ACT local total for DELTA WAVE now 2295 cases. 18 mystery cases. 2 repats from o/seas. ACT recorded 0 delta deaths. [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/RVbHzJ00/23dec2021-ACT-DAILY-LOCAL-CASES.png[/IMG] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> TAS 23/12/2021 TAS TAS recorded 15 LOCAL cases , TAS local total for DELTA WAVE now 58 cases. 13 mystery cases. 0 repats from o/seas. ACT recorded 0 delta deaths. [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/cHnBjMWw/23dec2021-TAS-DAILY-LOCAL-CASES.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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