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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1980989, member: 81934"] 13 JANUARY = DELTA WAVE Day 211 & OMICRON TSUSAMI Day 36 < Pt4 QLD , WA > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 13/1/2022 QLD QLD recorded 14914 +ve PCRs & RATs , QLD local total for DELTA - OMICRON WAVE now 152295 cases. QLD recorded the state's deadliest day of the entire pandemic = 6 delta deaths.. QLD PCR POSITIVITY = 35.75% [img]https://i.postimg.cc/W3z62dZj/13jan2022-DAILY-PCR-ONLY-POSITIVITY-QLD.png[/img] CALC EFFECTIVE QLD POSITIVITY PCR TESTS = 12102 +VE RATs = 2812 +VE PCRs = 0.3575x12102 = 4327 ==> +VE (RATs + PCRs) = 2812 + 4327 =7138 ==> TESTS ( PCRs + +ve RATs) = 12102 + 2812 = 14914 EFFECTIVE POSITIVITY = +VE (RATs + PCRs) / TESTS ( PCRs + +ve RATs) = 7138 / 14914 = 47.9 % QLD LOCAL DAILY CASES[/ig [img]https://i.postimg.cc/jSC7wp5Q/13jan2022-DAILY-LOCAL-PCR-CASES-QLD.png[/img] Queensland has reported 6 COVID-19 deaths overnight in what Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has described as a "quite upsetting" development. The people were all aged between their 70s and 90s and take the state's death toll to 17. "That is the largest number of people that Queensland has lost during the pandemic," Ms Palaszczuk told reporters in Brisbane on Thursday. The state reported 14,914 new infections on Thursday, with 582 people now in hospitals and 26 of those in intensive care — 10 of which on ventilators. QLD STATE BORDER IS REOPENED - border to open as state records deadliest day of pandemic. Queensland will tear down its border checkpoints and roadblocks from Saturday – a move announced alongside news that the state had recorded its deadliest day since the start of the pandemic. The border restrictions have been in place for six months. The measures to protect “Fortress Queensland” have been popular within the state, successful in suppressing Covid outbreaks and hardline towards people caught on the wrong side of the border from their families, their homes and their livelihoods. With the state poised to reach another vaccination milestone – 90% double-dose coverage in the adult population – authorities say the border is no longer needed. As Omicron spreads through Queensland – which recorded 14,914 cases and six deaths on Thursday – police said the sentry duty is no longer the best use of their time. From 1am on Saturday, people will be allowed in without requiring a border pass, evidence of a negative Covid test, or evidence of vaccination.“The border restrictions have served their purpose, which is to allow every Queenslander access to a vaccine,” the Queensland chief health officer, John Gerrard, told reporters on Thursday. “And now the virus, as expected, is spreading through Queensland.” The health minister, Yvette D’ath, said border restrictions were becoming “less important by the day”. “It was important throughout 2021, [when] we controlled those people coming from hotspots and had restrictions around that,” D’ath said. “[Now] we don’t want to spend our time looking at whether we need to be declaring and changing hotspots. We should assume that anyone travelling around Australia domestically could have the virus and so it is a lot less important to worry about where people are coming from around Australia and much more importantly about where they are going.” Local restrictions preventing unvaccinated people from accessing certain public venues, such as cafes, will remain in place. The police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, said the change would free up resources. “I welcome this announcement today,” Carroll said. “Since the establishment of the first border checkpoint in March 2020, this has been a significant operation for the Queensland Police Service. “This change … will enable us to reprioritise, get back to business as usual and make sure that now we prepare for the peak over the next couple of weeks.” Carroll said police performed 3.68m vehicle checks at the borders during the past two years; turned around 35,902 vehicles and met almost 30,000 arriving flights. Queensland has 26 Covid-positive people in intensive care, with 10 on ventilators. Another 530 people with Covid-19 are in hospital wards. The increasing case numbers have led to today’s 6 deaths – all people aged over 70 – the most recorded by Queensland since the start of the pandemic. The relatively few Covid deaths in the state – just seven prior to the recent reopening of the borders, compared with more than 2,000 elsewhere – had been the key measure of success of the isolationist policy that separated communities along the border. Queensland and health authorities are bracing for a PROJECTED peak of cases early next month. Surging case numbers in Queensland continue to put stress on thousands of medical workers while anger over the lack of rapid antigen tests is continuing to grow ( in QLD as in the rest of the hotspot states where it's literally impossible to lay your hands on a RAT and many people "frustrated" by having to queue for several hours (w/out toilet breaks and poor access to public toilets in their cars in the summer heat ( which is of heatwave levels w/ tropical levels of RH in NSW & QLD). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 13/1/2022 WA WA recorded 13 +ve PCRs , WA local total for DELTA - OMICRON WAVE now 92 cases. WA recorded 3 INTL case. WA recorded 0 MYSTERY LOCAL case. WA recorded 0 delta deaths.. WA PCR POSITIVITY = 0.35% Western Australia warned COVID-19 supply chain issues will persist in supermarkets after February 5 SCHEDULED reopening.he panic buying West Australians saw at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to re-emerge as an ongoing supply chain crisis empties supermarket shelves. Supply issues are cleaning out shelves nationwide due to a worsening spread of Omicron cases amongst workers in the country's east. Woolworths stores in WA will introduce product limits on items from today, amid "surge buying" over the past two days in the state. State general manager Karl Weber said toilet paper and painkillers will be capped at two packs per transaction. A limit of either two kilos or packs, whichever is relevant, will be in place for mince, chicken and sausages. Mr Weber said he wasn't worried about shortages but wanted to make sure continuity of supply was in place."We've some supply issues and it's been well-documented in the press," he said. "Although in the last 36 hours – Tuesday and Wednesday – we've seen some surge buying in Western Australia in certain categories like toilet rolls, painkillers, some meat." Coles recently introduced a two-package purchasing limit for chicken, mince and sausages products in every state apart from WA. However, a national cap on medical products including paracetamol, Ibuprofen and Aspirin and a one-unit limit on toilet paper applies across Coles stores in WA. 'Herd mentality' driving up demand for products Pierre Sequeira, who runs the Preston Street IGA in Perth's southern suburbs, said while his store was well stocked, he was not sure what would happen when the state's border reopened next month. He said he had noticed people starting to stock up on essentials. "We're trying to tell people not to panic buy because, I think, that just ends up with a few people buying too much," he said. Mr Sequeira said while Western Australia remained relatively free of COVID-19, the state government needed to clarify how businesses should manage future outbreaks. "That's where we want to get the definition of a close contact, how we manage that and how many days they've got to isolate because that's going to be a tricky thing to manage," he said. Mr Sequeira also wants to see rapid antigen tests for employees supplied to businesses. COVID-19 to drain WA supermarkets of staff WA Independent Grocers Association president John Cummings said the new wave of panic buying was exacerbating grocers' capacity to restock some items. "That's causing some orders to go up from stores, which is putting delays on deliveries from the warehouse and putting pressure on the supply chain," he said. Mr Cummings said he believed the pandemic-induced shortage of manpower to stock shelves in the eastern states would most likely occur in Western Australia once COVID-19 became rampant in the community and people fell sick. He said the industry had already been struggling with a workforce shortage over the past two years but he expected it would soon worsen."We tend to pool from the same workforce in hospitality, in cafes and all those areas … a lot of our workforce is casual as well, so we're all competing for the same market," Mr Cummings said. "I think it's a combination of rapid antigen testing, of looking at who's actually a close contact, who can go to work [and] who can't go to work." Freight industry already struggling The freight industry has been hit hard by sickness, with many positive cases often being workers in that sector due to the nature of their job. Western Roads Federation head Cam Dumesny said the entire freight industry was under immense pressure. "Road, we're short drivers,. Rail is short of train drivers. We've got shipping disruptions and we've got reduced air freight capacity … we're already starting to see the flow through into Western Australia of what's happening over east," he said. Mr Dumesny said about 30 to 40 % of the workers in the east coast were not turning up due to the Omicron outbreak. He said Western Australia had not seen the worst of it just yet and he was encouraging people to refrain from panic buying. "Twice in the last two years we've been [cut] off from the east coast by all road access by the floods and simultaneous bushfires, yet we've kept stuff on the shelves," he said. "We have one of the best logistics systems in the world in Western Australia … have confidence in it. "Yes, there'll be some things you can't get, but it'll be back there [in the] next couple of days. Don't panic." [/QUOTE]
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