“As we have discussed this week, this variant of concern is starting to show up in places where normally it would be less likely, so the Brighton Beach Hotel, that was an outdoor dining setting, well ventilated, you wouldn't expect transmission to occur.” tveeder.com/560/byrange?&f…
“The fact that we’re seeing transmission in some of these casual tier2 exposure sites or even tier3 exposure sites means we have to re-examine those sites. We have to reach out to people in some of those exposure sites and ask them to quarantine rather than just test and isolate”
“REPORTER: Numbers have not exploded, contact tracers yesterday said they are meeting every key benchmark, vaccinations are up, we are hitting record testing levels, Melburnians are doing their bit and numbers have not gone up exponentialally, so what's the concern here”
“An infectious case that was dining there outdoors, this new case from overnight was also dining with a group of people…They were outdoors, in a well ventilated, shaded but effectively ventilated setting, but nonetheless transmission has occurred”
“We do have a suspicion that there has been transmission 2 hours after an infectious case has left an indoor enclosed space and was therefore a substantial period of time but they had left two hours before the next exposed individual came in who has become a case”
“That's... That's in the kind of measles category of infectiousness. Probably relates to an unventilated setting where someone spent a great deal of time but to come in two hours later and be infected.”
“So we have two index cases where we do not know how they got the virus?”
“That is right.”
“something like 75% of the adult population getting covered with a vaccine is a pretty good indicator that you really drive transmission down”
“Have AHPPC made a final decision on improved PPE for aerosol transmission that was put to you three weeks ago, I think?”
“Ah, I'm not sure. I haven't, ah, um, seen that come to AHPPC. It might have been published online, but I haven't seen it”
Anyone else see anything? @suss_mark @NjbBari3 @JOHNJOHNSTONED @kiai @DrPieterPeach
“We’re following up people who were on the plane from Adelaide to Melbourne...who were with the individual who came out of hotel quarantine…asking them to undertake blood tests to use some serology to find any other traces. We’re really keen to identify this missing-link piece.”
UPDATE: This case was a false positive.
UPDATE: This case was a false positive.
UPDATE: This case has been classified as a false positive.
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