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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1982541, member: 81934"] 26 JANUARY = DELTA WAVE Day 224 & OMICRON TSUSAMI Day 49 < pt3 VIC > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 26/1/2022 VIC VIC recorded 13507 new cases, VIC local total for DELTA - OMICRON WAVE is now 762931 cases. Constrained by extreme shortage of RATs and restricted access to PCRs. VIC recorded 35 delta deaths.. Omicron VOC is the dominant strain in Victoria as it is in NSW. Density limits are in place in Victoria . Vic Health has mandated that RAT +ves must be reported. The statewide CODE BROWN in VIctoria remains in force. VIC Reff = 0.75 VIC PCR POSITIVITY = 18.8% [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/Y9RTGHHs/26jan2022-positivity-VIC.png[/IMG] VIC DAILY CASES SNAPSHOTS [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/pdCt88QC/26jan2022-DAILY-LOCAL-CASES-VIC.png[/IMG] VIC DAILY CASES SNAPSHOTS WITH CURVE [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/DZtFyhP3/26jan2022-DAILY-LOCAL-CASES-VIC-WITH-CURVE.png[/IMG] Victoria has recorded one of its highest daily death tolls of the pandemic, after 35 people died with COVID-19. The state posted 13,507 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 6533 from PCR tests and 6974 from rapid antigen tests. It brings the total number of active cases in the state to 139,562. COVID-19 Commander Jeroen Weimar said Wednesday's death toll was "one of the highest" he has seen. It is the most deaths reported in the state since Victoria's second wave, when 59 fatalities were recorded on September 4, 2020. There are 1089 patients with COVID-19 in Victorian hospitals, of whom 113 are in intensive care and 40 on a ventilator. Mr Weimar said 2712 health workers were on furlough due to being sick with the virus or looking after people with COVID-19. He said more than 90,000 COVID-19 vaccine booster doses had been administered over the past week, after a blitz across state-run clinics. About 58 % of Victorians aged over 70, 49 % aged over 60 and 34 % of over-18s have been tripled dosed. Mr Weimar encouraged parents to "make it a priority" to get their children vaccinated before school returns next week. UoMELB Study: Victorians self-imposed lockdown. University of Melbourne research has revealed Victorian residents self-imposed restrictions as COVID infections rose in December and January - limiting their movements around the city. Catalonia expected to pardon up to 1,000 people accused of witchcraft Medvedev survives epic Open quarter-final University of Melbourne research has revealed Victorian residents self-imposed restrictions as COVID infections rose in December and January - limiting their movements around the city. In the first week of January movements were 10 % above those during stage four lockdown. Once cases began to fall on January 11 movement began to climb between 60 and 70 % of pre-pandemic levels. Researchers say the trend reflects the effect of restrictions on shaping cultural norms. Victorian farmers turning to automated shearing in answer to worker shortage. Shearing sheep can be backbreaking work. Most days involve eight hours of hard, physical labour. It can be tough work and farmers can understand why more young bodies aren't putting their hands up for the role. The working conditions, along with other factors such as border closures due to the COVID pandemic and vaccine hesitancy have contributed to the current Australia-wide shearer shortage. That's why Kevin Butler, in Kilmore in northern Victoria, decided to take matters into his own hands to invest in semi-automated technology to shear his sheep. "I would say it takes away 95 per cent of the energy [required]," Mr Butler said. "A shearer is like one of those tennis players at the Australian Open right now. The players only play for three hours, but a shearer has got to wrestle sheep for eight hours a day with the same amount of energy. "After using this machinery, I could go off and play golf or do some gardening. There's just no effort." Mr Butler said by investing in the technology he wanted to "dig the well before you need the water". "I know my shearers are getting on like I am and there's no young ones coming up to replace them, so where are we going to be in five years' time? "I've got a $70,000 wool clip. I'm happy to go off and buy a tractor, so why not invest in something like this? It is expensive but it's worth the investment." Mr Butler said the industry is at a crisis point. He said a flow-on effect of the shearer shortage was compromised flock health, as flystrike took hold over the summer months. "We are in a state of absolute crisis in the shearing industry, and unless the powers that be start thinking differently then there's going to be a lot of deaths in the paddock through flystrike," he said. No longer backbreaking Mr Butler invested in the semi-automated system last year, which works by securing and moving the sheep while they are being shorn. "The sheep walk into what we call a mild crush. It doesn't actually pin them, but it sort of holds them," Mr Butler said. "And then a lever rotates the sheep over on its back and onto a platform. We then slip the legs into some restrainers, and it exposes the sheep so we can shear it. "It's easy on the animal and there is no back pain for us, because we're in an upright position the whole time." Mr Butler typically needs a team of shearers to complete the work, but with this technology he only needs himself and another; his roustabout and shearer Barry Milne. Mr Milne agrees that it creates less work for shearers. "It's no stress on me. I'm getting on and I'm not having to visit a chiropractor a couple of times a month," he said. Automation to take off Victorian shearing instructor Tom Kelly said he has noticed more farmers using semi-automated technology for shearing, which he said was extremely useful in a time with declining shearer numbers. "They continually improve the machines that I've seen, without trying to get way beyond having the person not shear the sheep," Mr Kelly said. "I think you'll see [the technology] develop and become more user-friendly. "It's cracked through a barrier now, you'll see it open up for sure." [/QUOTE]
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