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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1980820, member: 81934"] 12 JANUARY = DELTA WAVE Day 210 & OMICRON TSUSAMI Day 35 < Pt5 WA & SA > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 12/1/2022 WA WA recorded 5 +ve PCRs , WA local total for DELTA - OMICRON WAVE now 79 cases. WA recorded 1 INTL case. WA recorded 1 MYSTERY LOCAL case. WA recorded 0 delta deaths.. WA PCR POSITIVITY = 0.1% Western Australia may have undetected community COVID-19 transmission after a woman contracted the virus from an unknown source. Authorities are investigating where the woman may have been exposed to the virus and genomic sequencing is underway to determine the variant. "The woman was infectious in the community but did not attend work and there are likely a limited number of potential exposure sites," WA Health said on Wednesday. "Exposure sites will be released as soon as possible, once confirmed." A second local case reported on Wednesday is connected to a cluster of cases involving an infected security guard at Perth's Hyatt hotel. This person has been in quarantine throughout their infectious period. WA is the only state or territory yet to experience significant spread of the Omicron strain, although the McGowan government's plan to reopen borders from February 5 means it is only a matter of time before such an outbreak occurs. 4 new local cases were announced on Tuesday, including a person believed to have been infected with the Omicron variant while in the community. The person, identified as Case 1244, had close contact with a confirmed Omicron case who recently returned from Tasmania. They subsequently spent several days in the community in Perth, with genomic sequencing expected to confirm they have the Omicron strain. "There's a strong possibility there's been community spread of Omicron," Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson told reporters on Tuesday. "This is just part and parcel of managing a really aggressive strain of this virus." Case 1244 travelled to the airport on January 2 to pick up a family member who had returned from Tasmania. They are believed to have worn a face mask at the airport and followed all other rules. Perth's supermarket shelves were noticeably bare on Wednesday after Coles introduced national purchasing limits on some items. WA has categorised Northern Territory to "extreme risk" status from Thursday (same status as NSW, Vic, Tas, ACT, SA, and QLD), meaning travel to WA from anywhere in Australia will be blocked except under extraordinary circumstances. <== WA is effectively ISOLATED from ALL of EASTERN & CNTL Australia to preserve WA's flourishing economy , their CovidZERO status and to give WA time to get max primary and booster jabs into arms and to get as many 5-11yr olds vaxxed. The West Australian Government has launched a new COVID app which combines proof of vaccination and QR codes.The app also contains the state G2G system which is required for all domestic arrivals. Service WA has already been downloaded over 6,000 but will not replace SafeWA. The app will also provide information to assist residents when interstate borders open. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 12/1/2022 SA SA recorded 3715 +ve PCRs , SA local total for DELTA - OMICRON WAVE now 50044 cases. SA recorded A ALL TIME HIGH 7 delta deaths.. SA PCR POSITIVITY = 19.2% [img]https://i.postimg.cc/d1czv5JV/12jan2022-DAILY-PCR-ONLY-POSITIVITY-SA.png[/img] CALC EFFECTIVE SA POSITIVITY PCR TESTS = 19398 +VE RATs = 737 +VE PCRs = 0.192x19398 = 3724 ==> +VE (RATs + PCRs) = 737 + 3724 = 4461 ==> TESTS ( PCRs + +ve RATs) = 19398 + 737 = 20135 EFFECTIVE POSITIVITY = +VE (RATs + PCRs) / TESTS ( PCRs + +ve RATs) = 4461/ 20135 = 22.2 % SA Reff = 1.15 SA LOCAL DAILY CASES [img]https://i.postimg.cc/43YcvTHm/12jan2022-DAILY-LOCAL-PCR-CASES-SA.png[/img] 'Hybrid' school return for SA students. Some South Australian students will return to the classroom on schedule with others to learn online for at least two weeks under changes for the new school year. Under the plan, influenced by the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases, schools will open on schedule on January 31 for children of essential workers and for students considered vulnerable. tudents in reception, years 1, 7, 8 and 12 will then return on February 2 with other years resuming face-to-face learning from February 14. Students facing the longer delay will learn online for the first two weeks of term one. Premier Steven Marshall said a range of options was considered but the strong advice from education officials supported the "hybrid" model. "We know there was always going to be disruptions for the start of term one," Mr Marshall said on Thursday. "We want to get as many people into the classroom as possible but we've also got to be mindful of making sure it's safe for students, for our staff and, more broadly, the entire state," he said. "The reality is there were no easy solutions. There was no simple, clear-cut way of doing this. "This is a solution which gets the balance right." Mr Marshall said SA did not intend to close schools should there be infections among staff or students. The changes for the school year came as SA reported another 3669 new COVID-19 infections and four more deaths, two men in their 80s and two women in their 70s. The latest deaths take the toll since the start of the pandemic to 30 while SA has 32,516 active infections. SA Health said 225 people were in hospital with the virus, including 26 in intensive care and seven on ventilators. Mandatory RAT +ve Reporting in SA . Also on Thursday, South Australia introduced new rules for close contacts of cases to have rapid antigen tests rather than a PCR swab. Anyone who tests positive will be required to report the result through an online system, and failure to report could result in a $1000 fine. Mr Marshall on Wednesday said mandatory reporting was about getting as much real data into the system as possible to help model the likely trajectory of the current outbreak. That latest modelling is due to be released on Friday. Close contacts will be provided with two free RATs which they should use on days one and six while isolating. The tests will initially be provided through one site established in the Adelaide parklands but more locations will follow. The parklands site has the capacity to handle about 13,000 people a day and quickly attracted a long queue on Thursday. Limestone Coast medical chief warns health system starting to 'buckle' amid climbing COVID cases. Limestone Coast Health Network executive director of medical services, Dr Elaine Pretorius, previously warned the health system could become overrun if COVID cases continued to double in the Limestone Coast. She said she believed the number of cases was far higher than what was being reported on the Limestone Coast. Figures show there are now nearly 1,500 active COVID cases across the Limestone Coast, which has been a popular destination for tourists in recent weeks. "The numbers have dropped but I'm not convinced the numbers are correct," Dr Pretorius said. "I think there has been far less testing than there was before. We also aren't capturing people who have those rapid antigen tests." This follows a COVID outbreak at Teys Australia's Naracoorte abattoir where workers were required to present to work even if they had tested positive. At the abattoir, 140 people have now tested positive. Dr Pretorius said the belief that Omicron was a mild disease was leading to carelessness and facilitating its spread. "Although the hospitalisations are only about 1 per cent, 1 per cent of an enormous number is a very big number," she said. "Our health system is already buckling under what we are seeing at the moment." Rapid tests crucial Climbing case numbers are also placing pressure on support sectors including disability care. Chief executive officer of disability care organisation Miroma Incorporated, Annelise Bates, said the number of cases was impacting on care. "As more COVID cases are coming into the Limestone Coast it is going to be very problematic for organisations to be able to provide a continuous duty of care to the participants that we currently support," Ms Bates said. She said disability support staff were finding it difficult to maintain distance from the clients who were "very vulnerable" due to their compromised health. Ms Bates said the organisation was taking the necessary steps to ensure the safety of its staff and clients. "You can't really keep a safe distance from our participants, but we do what we possibly can," she said. "And we support our staff as much as we possibly can in that requirement. "We provide free masks, we provide as much sanitiser as we possibly can, and we've got PPE all ready to go." With Miroma having two workers testing positive for COVID, Ms Bates said their carers were being split into smaller teams as a precaution. "Our risk management response is that if we were to have a positive COVID result within one of our team, we would reduce that team as much as we possibly can to minimise the impact of our support workers working across sites," she said. Ms Bates said the government should provide rapid antigen tests to disability carers to ensure their tests were done. "At this particular time, they're still doing their PCR tests, however, I am told that that will soon change to the rapid antigen test system," she said. "That's problematic as well … I have ordered 150 rapid antigen tests, but they're not due until late this month." > [/QUOTE]
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