Thread: Corona Virus

Here is the full list of Covid hotspots in Sydney. It's a long list, which is why Sydney really is a hot-spot, despite what some may say.

NSW Covid hotspots: list of Sydney and regional case locations | Australia news | The Guardian

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Turns out Border Force actually allowed 55 Kiwis to travel from Sydney, which is the most active virus hotspot in the country, to Melbourne, which is closed to international travellers, without warning the Victorian Govt. Let's hope none of them were positive and are now spreading the virus in Melbourne.

Immigration minister points finger at Victoria over New Zealand travellers | Australia news | The Guardian

Turns out Border Force also allowed 25 Kiwis to fly to Perth, where they went straight into quarantine.

Daniel Andrews slams the federal government after revealing 55 NZ travellers disembarked in Melbourne
Daniel Andrews slams the federal government after revealing 55 NZ travellers disembarked in Melbourne | SBS News

Originally Posted by 4bee

Why so? Is that the the geographical limit or is a bit dodgy?

It was the southern end of my 5km radius. If I went out for a ride it was far south as I could go.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Turns out Border Force actually allowed 55 Kiwis to travel from Sydney, which is the most active virus hotspot in the country, to Melbourne, which is closed to international travellers, without warning the Victorian Govt. Let's hope none of them were positive and are now spreading the virus in Melbourne.

Immigration minister points finger at Victoria over New Zealand travellers | Australia news | The Guardian

Exactly, let's hope none of them picked it up in Sydney - quarantine-free flights arrivals are supposedly kept separate from quarantinable flights, but then again I was in Sydney in January and was actually watching people leave the cruise boats and wondering why there didn't seem to be any customs or immigration evident ...

It appears that most of the arrivees aren't in fact tourists but are intending to stay - and they're potentially infected and they're most likely hiding, given the trouble the State appears to be having tracking them down.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Turns out Border Force actually allowed 55 Kiwis to travel from Sydney, which is the most active virus hotspot in the country, to Melbourne, which is closed to international travellers, without warning the Victorian Govt. Let's hope none of them were positive and are now spreading the virus in Melbourne.

Immigration minister points finger at Victoria over New Zealand travellers | Australia news | The Guardian

I wonder if Border Force actually know what their function is?

Originally Posted by Arapiles

It was the southern end of my 5km radius. If I went out for a ride it was far south as I could go.

Talk about being house trained all these weeks. Did one hit a non physical Barrier?

Apparently NZ has had 0 community transmission in the last 14 days and the 40 active cases in NZ are all under Managed Isolation or Quarantine.

Any suggestion that the arrivals from NZ could have brought COVID to Victoria is just ridiculous and fear mongering at its worse. Yes they could have picked up COVID on arrival in Sydney or even Melbourne, but so could anyone else coming into Melbourne from anywhere across Australia.

The arrivals from NZ would be in hiding because of the xenophobic attitude of people who should know better. And the Premier of Victoria is the chief antagonist behind this appalling behaviour.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Talk about being house trained all these weeks. Did one hit a non physical Barrier?

It's called "complying with the law".