Things can quickly go astray with Covid19. To show how quickly things can go wrong this article is worth reading under the heading:
Explosion of coronavirus cases in Tasmania’s north-west should serve as warning, experts say
Little more than a month ago, Tasmania appeared to be doing everything right.
Claiming the “toughest border measures in the country”, Premier Peter Gutwein declared mandatory quarantine for all travellers into the state.
“Fortress Tasmania” was the idea, and visitors were told “don’t come”.
The island state was on board with restrictions taken up nationally — gyms closed, restaurants and bars became takeaway-only, and gatherings got smaller and smaller.
But on the day the two-person gathering rule was adopted, Tasmania’s nightmare quietly began.
A Ruby Princess cruise ship passenger, a woman in her 80s, died from coronavirus at the North West Regional Hospital in Burnie.
At the time, Tasmania had only recorded 69 cases of coronavirus.
That number has now blown out to more than 200, with almost every case in the state since then recorded in the north-west.
The vast majority have been staff and patients from the NWRH and the NWPH.
While it is believed the outbreak began with the Ruby Princess cruise ship passenger, investigations into the primary source of infection, and how it spread so quickly, are ongoing.
