Coronavirus - New Zealand
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Again, just hope while she was out and about she want contagious
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Contact tracing 15 close contacts - 13 in two retail settings. Number high because retail staff not sure who served woman. All isolating and have been tested.
SA variant not known if it is more contagious than original
Apparently it is. 50% more contagious.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-covid-19-strain-in-south-africa-what-we-know-11609971229
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And, some encouraging news from the Ministry about use of the Covid tracer app:
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,475,624 registered users.
In the past 24 hours to 1pm today, 802,973 scans have been recorded. This is a notable increase and we thank everyone that is scanning and enabling Bluetooth on their phone.
Poster scans have reached a total of 159,056,758 and users have created 6,476,767 manual diary entries.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
And, some encouraging news from the Ministry about use of the Covid tracer app:
NZ COVID Tracer now has 2,475,624 registered users.
In the past 24 hours to 1pm today, 802,973 scans have been recorded. This is a notable increase and we thank everyone that is scanning and enabling Bluetooth on their phone.
Poster scans have reached a total of 159,056,758 and users have created 6,476,767 manual diary entries.
Would have been easier with a covid card just sayin....
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Godder yep, even still i had a guy follow me into a supermarket and despite me stopping to scan in front of him, he didn't.
Apathy
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Aus have closed borders to NZ for at least 72 hours.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Aus have closed borders to NZ for at least 72 hours.
Had a mate flying back today. Sat on the tarmac for 3hrs before they offloaded them.
Guess thats better than taking off, only to be told you're into 14 days hotel quarantine when you land.
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@Stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I'm completely flabbergasted that NZ allows this. The sacrifices made by so many to eliminate this thing, and they allow this sort of unnecessary stuff? Its beyond belief. Shared elevators, guests allowed to
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@voodoo I didn't read anywhere in the article that they share elevators; only that there may be a queue in the elevator lobby (physically distanced). Passing each other in hallways, what's wrong with that, if they keep the right physical distance and wear masks? There aren't congregations outside. I've seen quite a few people posting on social media from a MIQ and usually there are only a few people in an exercise area at the same time and they keep their distance. And there's supervision to make sure they do.
Or is this just a wind-up? I can never tell.
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@Stargazer said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo I didn't read anywhere in the article that they share elevators; only that there may be a queue in the elevator lobby (physically distanced). Passing each other in hallways, what's wrong with that, if they keep the right physical distance and wear masks? There aren't congregations outside. I've seen quite a few people posting on social media from a MIQ and usually there are only a few people in an exercise area at the same time and they keep their distance. And there's supervision to make sure they do.
Or is this just a wind-up? I can never tell.
Not a wind up at all.
You're right it doesn’t say sharing elevators, just mentions less than ideal sanitising of them. My bad. But still, you're now relying on people to use hand sanitiser every time - and to take it to the n'th degree, if we trust people to do that, then why use hotel quarantine at all, can't we trust them to self isolate?
That whole MIQ setup could be any office building in Aus or NZ. It should not be the way a MIQ Hotel operates.
Is there a risk of sharing hallways or courtyards? Of course!
Then why would you let quarantined people move around this way?
The bloke in the article says ""I think that makes a lot of sense because there are times where you just happen to pass someone in the hallway or outside in the recreation area." .
He's absolutely right. Why should people who have been quarantined for 14 days, be able to interact in this way?
Its such an easy fix, and its such a clearly obvious point of weakness.
Makes no sense to me.
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Well, from a purely personal pov, this sucks. I'm never going to be able to convince my wife to go back to NZ while MIQ continues. This shows that you may be completely COVID free and end up getting it at MIQ and once my wife worked that out, she was like 'forget us paying $4000 to be locked up, and then we're at higher risk of getting the virus'.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@gt12 she doesn't have to leave the room.
Just leave the aircon off and accept no food delivery?
Sounds fun
The odds of getting it from food are tiny. Not a good time of year for no air con, but by April or so, that should be fine.
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@voodoo That sounds like what my brother described. I don't think the lift is an issue. They sanitise before and after using the lift. You cannot realistically expect the entire lift to be sanitised every time it is used.
This seems like a significant improvement on how it was a few months ago and a reasonable compromise between concern for public health and trying to make the experience as comfortable as possible.
My position is that the border will always leak. It is inevitable which is why fucktards should use the tracing app all the time not go into a mindless panic when we get a case.
All the media complaints about long queues at testing stations triggers me. Do you have symptoms? No. Were you at one of the named premises around the time the confirmed case was there? No. Then why the fuck are you clogging the system possibly preventing someone who has caught COVID from getting tested. Go. Fuck off and buy toilet rolls from Countdown. Retards!!
Given NZ MIQ has proven no more leaky that the Oz version, which has much more stringent controls, I am cautiously OK with the process but am watching the results of the Pillman investigation closely