All borders to reopen.
Germany and Singapore start a "vaccinated travel lane". Lots of tests, but opening up for business travellers and tourists.
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Just one good thing came out of yesterday. That is, Gladys said "we have to learn to live with the virus and we have to look at hospitalisations numbers instead of cases."
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How will the Feds encourage recalcitrant State leaders to introduce sensible privileges to the vaccinated? For instance, what passive measures do they have to penalise Mcgowan without losing federal seats in WA.
You want to penalise Mark and hope they won’t lose Federal seats. Good luck with that.
Back up a bit. Lets get back to the objective. That is to get to this so called 70/80%. When that happens everyone has a differing opinion of who and what opens. Scotty himself said, we treat this like the flu. If that's the case, then that means we go back to living 2019 style. Pollies will squabble over this as we know. This comes to another question? One death is way to many at the moment with present lockdowns, what number will they accept when we get to 80%.
Just one good thing came out of yesterday. That is, Gladys said "we have to learn to live with the virus and we have to look at hospitalisations numbers instead of cases."
Just one good thing came out of yesterday. That is, Gladys said "we have to learn to live with the virus and we have to look at hospitalisations numbers instead of cases."
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Can the Federal government open a quarantine free international route for travellers with the immunisations, SIA-PER. or does WA have the ability to close the international border?
Mcgowan's latest declaration of no Bali travel until they are zero cases covid free. Who actually runs the Federal borders ?
Mcgowan's latest declaration of no Bali travel until they are zero cases covid free. Who actually runs the Federal borders ?
Can the Federal government open a quarantine free international route for travellers with the immunisations, SIA-PER. or does WA have the ability to close the international border?
Mcgowan's latest declaration of no Bali travel until they are zero cases covid free. Who actually runs the Federal borders ?
Mcgowan's latest declaration of no Bali travel until they are zero cases covid free. Who actually runs the Federal borders ?
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The answer is yes, like many countries. They will accept any WHO recognised vaccine.
Then there's the question of will the US recognise all vaccines as part of their vaccine passport requirements or just theirs.
31 total in NZ today, including 3 in WLG.
1500 update from the PM will advise on lockdown extensions
I find it a little bit ironic that she is being lauded for her handling but she is the one who let the virus in. Mind you, we'd all be dead by now if the other lot were in power.
1500 update from the PM will advise on lockdown extensions
I find it a little bit ironic that she is being lauded for her handling but she is the one who let the virus in. Mind you, we'd all be dead by now if the other lot were in power.
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Can the Federal government open a quarantine free international route for travellers with the immunisations, SIA-PER. or does WA have the ability to close the international border?
Mcgowan's latest declaration of no Bali travel until they are zero cases covid free. Who actually runs the Federal borders ?
Mcgowan's latest declaration of no Bali travel until they are zero cases covid free. Who actually runs the Federal borders ?
The only reference that I can find is Ross Taylor saying "“He (McGowan) effectively said until Bali is COVID zero, West Australians aren’t going back,” Taylor said."
That's one way to read what he said.
I believe that what he said was "border closures and targeted lock downs will remain options even when 80 per cent of the population has been vaccinated"
As the president and founder of the "Indonesia Institute Incorporated" he may have particular concerns about this possibility but I think this response tends towards being a "knee-jerk" reaction.
Now, for the others, if your hearing has been affected by multiple years of skolling Resch's drain water in the local bowlo then maybe you heard him say something different.
But it's not what I heard him say.
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I have been trying to find info (maybe someone can) on the sudden disappearance of the Wuhan, Alpha, Beta, Gamma variants. On most graphs they are down to < 2%. Vaccines pretty march started at the beginning of the year so it wasn't the vaccines that kicked them out. Did the Delta variant just push them aside. Don't know. Possibly they ran their course. i.e. The infection-spread and dissipation is done. Did they all reach herd immunity mainly in other parts of the world due to our international border closed. That took about 15 months say. In that case add 15 months to the Delta (March) = June 2022. By then the Delta will be < 2%. With the help of vaccines it should be quicker and quicker still the sooner you end lockdowns. Stacks of epidemiologists on tv though I would like them to answer this query. Or maybe the fantastic health advice department.
Here we go again....
And from abit further down in the article:
A mother in northern New South Wales has been denied entry to Queensland for vital tests on a cyst on her four-month-old baby's brain, as border restrictions tighten.
Amy Gerang-Hall, who lives at Bangalow in the NSW north coast border region, had received a medical exemption to cross the border with her daughter, Davina, for a specialist MRI scan. However, Queensland Health has since told Ms Gerang-Hall it is treating all NSW patients as if they were from a hotspot.
"If we were to go there, we could only go into the Emergency Department and her neurologist would have to come and see her there, and everyone would be in PPE [Personal Protective Equipment]. "But she needs to have an MRI, which means she would have to go to the MRI department, and because that was in the hospital, we weren't allowed."
Amy Gerang-Hall, who lives at Bangalow in the NSW north coast border region, had received a medical exemption to cross the border with her daughter, Davina, for a specialist MRI scan. However, Queensland Health has since told Ms Gerang-Hall it is treating all NSW patients as if they were from a hotspot.
"If we were to go there, we could only go into the Emergency Department and her neurologist would have to come and see her there, and everyone would be in PPE [Personal Protective Equipment]. "But she needs to have an MRI, which means she would have to go to the MRI department, and because that was in the hospital, we weren't allowed."
Chris Ingall, a paediatrician in Lismore, NSW, said he was concerned border complications were placing infants' and children's lives at risk.Dr Ingall said it felt like déjà vu from a similar situation in 2020.
"Even last weekend we had four babies and children who required emergency care.
"Three of those four we had to send down to Newcastle because Queensland Health dictated that the parent would have to go into separate, self-funded hotel accommodation for two weeks of quarantine away from their child," he said. "So, the parents say, 'Look, I will just have to go south, even though I am moving away from my supports and family' and so forth. "We have babies who are breastfeeding, establishing breastfeeding, who have bowel obstructions, who have respiratory illness requiring ventilator support.
"There is this intractable Queensland Health approach, which I think is putting children's and babies' lives at risk."
It's been a year since Ballina couple Kimberley and Scott Brown lost one of their unborn twins. After suffering pregnancy complications, Ms Brown was flown to Sydney for emergency surgery, instead of a much closer Queensland hospital due to the border closure.Source
"Even last weekend we had four babies and children who required emergency care.
"Three of those four we had to send down to Newcastle because Queensland Health dictated that the parent would have to go into separate, self-funded hotel accommodation for two weeks of quarantine away from their child," he said. "So, the parents say, 'Look, I will just have to go south, even though I am moving away from my supports and family' and so forth. "We have babies who are breastfeeding, establishing breastfeeding, who have bowel obstructions, who have respiratory illness requiring ventilator support.
"There is this intractable Queensland Health approach, which I think is putting children's and babies' lives at risk."
It's been a year since Ballina couple Kimberley and Scott Brown lost one of their unborn twins. After suffering pregnancy complications, Ms Brown was flown to Sydney for emergency surgery, instead of a much closer Queensland hospital due to the border closure.Source
Noticed on some FIR NOTAMs overseas no Q required if vaccinated… but second jab must be not more than 9 months old.
booster certificates anyone?
booster certificates anyone?
West Australians have until midnight Wednesday to get home. After that, it’s too late. And I’m guessing it will be until a least the end of the year, but I hope I’m wrong.
