Premier Daniel Andrews has closed the border to visitors from Sydney, given Victorian residents until 11.59pm Monday to get home or face two weeks of hotel quarantine, and will establish police checkpoints along the southern side of the border for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
In response to the outbreak, the NSW government has reintroduced a 10-guest limit for private homes in greater Sydney, but only until Wednesday night, as well as a four-square-metres per person social distancing rule for indoor venues, where 300 people can still gather.Health Minister Brad Hazzard has "encouraged" people to wear masks on public transport and in supermarkets.
Victoria’s testing chief Jeroen Weimar warned of lengthy delays at the border for those making a swift return before Monday's midnight deadline. In a worrying sign, at least 44 close and casual contacts connected to the cluster have been identified within Barwon Health’s catchment area after being identified at Avalon Airport. They were tested at the airport and asked to self-isolate at home while being monitored by Barwon Health’s public health unit. Barwon Health is based in Geelong but covers a wide area within Victoria’s south-west.
“The problem we've got at the moment is I don't know how it got there ... and I don't know if there are any undetected chains of transmission to the community,” Dr Chant said.
Oh FFS. Outbreaks will continue until HI for any community is reached. Non vax protocols bn shown to work well by Drs & countries, globally. Even nutrition ( esp Vit D / C ) bn shown to correlate strongly with less severe symptoms.
He's right. Good work Premier
'There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses.......'
This is all a game. To ascertain the stupidity of the population.
Without an individual human biosecurity control order DanielAndrewsMP FaceMask mandate breaches The Biosecurity Act 2015 & is not legal & he knows that & that's why NSW have not mandated them, this is explained from the 5:40 mark of this video
Asking people to wear masks is much more sensible than mandating it it’s called leadership not dictatorship. Dan lacks emotional intelligence!
Shut up Dandrews
From DanielAndrewsMP seriously, who presided over a govt and health system that killed 800+ Victorians and infected 20,000.
Good
Great decision!
Schoolboy Dan, anything to stay in control.
Hey Dan...... Better re-address the situation of Hydroxichloroquine...... Bad decisions, lead to bad outcomes,....... for the vulnerable, anyway.
Dan is right.
Not sure it is Dan Andrews who is ‘throwing Christmas holiday plans into chaos’. Maybe it has something to do with the slow response of the NSW government? Come on age
Yer masks do jack s**t . What a tool we have as premier .
This statement makes me think about glass houses and leadership. Really ?
I am an Australian first. A Victorian second. I want my fellow Australians from New South Wales to come and go across the State border as much as they like. I don't care if they have a cough and a sniffle.
an d this from Dan. What a cretin.
Cop that Gladys.
What crap
As he bloody well should. Vic has done the hard learning. NSW Libs should heed the advice. nswcovid NorthernBeaches
So the child has chucked the toys out of the pram and shut the border. Dan would do anything to deflect blame away from his own deadly incompetence.
The number of cases and deaths reported in each state and territory since 22 January 2020.
Looks like lessons are not being learnt.