Seventeen passengers from New Zealand who travelled to Sydney under the trans-Tasman bubble arrangements have been caught entering Melbourne.
The passengers flew to Sydney and got a connecting flight to Melbourne.
Melbourne is currently not accepting international travellers.
Quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Australia is currently limited to New South Wales and the Northern Territory
Very interesting article o contact tracing where even the Uk gets a mention but we are lagging far behind the Asian nations.
Victoria’s contact tracing system has been under scrutiny in recent weeks, while New South Wales has been held up as a gold standard.
But how does Australia measure up on a global scale?
According to one expert, we still have a way to go.
Professor Tony Blakely, from the Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health, says Australia is still in the process of scaling up its contact tracing capacity.
We’re well ahead of the UK, where Professor Blakely says contact tracers have been swamped by cases.
But Australia is not yet up to speed with some East Asian countries, where infrastructure is more advanced, largely because of previous infectious diseases outbreaks like SARS and swine flu.
Covid data for Saturday, 17 October 2020
Global Cases: 39,586,899
Increase: 411,437
Global Deaths: 1,109,130
Increase: 6,189
Australia
Cases 27,378 Change: 7
Deaths 904 Change: 0
Critical
Cases per Million 1,070
UK
Cases 689,257 Change: 15,635
Deaths 43,429 Change: 136
Critical 580
Cases per Million 10,137
USA
Cases 8,288,278 Change: 71,963
Deaths 223,644 Change: 927
Critical 15,318
Cases per Million 24,997
Covid data for Sunday, 18 October 2020
Global Cases: 39,957,429
Increase: 370,530
Global Deaths: 1,114,633
Increase: 5,503
Australia
Cases 27,390 Change: 12
Deaths 904 Change: 0
Critical 1
Cases per Million 1,070
UK
Cases 705,428 Change: 16,171
Deaths 43,579 Change: 150
Critical 592
Cases per Million 10,375
USA
Cases 8,342,665 Change: 54,387
Deaths 224,282 Change: 638
Critical 15,417
Cases per Million 25,160
We’re catching America up…It’s about time we beat them at summat…
Oh, we beat them at anything to do with subtlety and refinement!
Covid data for Monday, 19 October 2020
Global Cases: 40,278,207
Increase: 320,778
Global Deaths: 1,118,321
Increase: 3,688
Australia
Cases 27,399 Change: 9
Deaths 905 Change: 1
Critical 1
Cases per Million 1,071
UK
Cases 722,409 Change: 16,981
Deaths 43,646 Change: 67
Critical 592
Cases per Million 10,625
USA
Cases 8,387,799 Change: 45,134
Deaths 224,730 Change: 448
Critical 15,380
Cases per Million 25,296
Did anyone else read about the mum who went for a Covid test but because she had to pick up her kids from school she abandoned the queue so never actually took the test…a few days later she got a notification that her test was positive…makes you wonder how accurate the figures are.
Very interesting Summer…You don’t think we are being deliberately misled do you?
This was on the news about Europe today.
It all sounds very worrying, how this will end because this is probably early days?
Meanwhile we are having an amazing amount of trouble coping with the New Zealand “bubble”, it is causing a lot of problems between different states.
What is " Covid Normal"? I thought this was a very interesting podcast about what the future holds if there is no vaccine.
I think you can hear it overseas. It is only 10 minutes long.
Covid data for Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Global Cases: 40,648,527
Increase: 370,320
Global Deaths: 1,122,992
Increase: 4,671
Australia
Cases 27,405 Change: 6
Deaths 905 Change: 0
Critical 1
Cases per Million 1,071
UK
Cases 741,212 Change: 18,803
Deaths 43,726 Change: 80
Critical 592
Cases per Million 10,901
USA
Cases 8,456,653 Change: 68,854
Deaths 225,222 Change: 492
Critical 15,501
Cases per Million 25,503
Yes, it worked for me Bruce…
I think there are only two ways this will end.
The first is if the majority of people catch the virus and become resistant, thereby breaking the chain of infection.
And secondly, clearing areas by preventing the mixing of infected people with none infected people until there is no infection left in that area. This could only be done by preventing travel in or out of a quarantined area and gradually expanding the border until the whole country is clear of the virus.
But travel between countries would have to be prevented otherwise the whole situation would re-emerge. It only takes one infected person to sneak through.
In theory, if fourteen days is enough to quell the virus (the usual amount of time we have been quarantining) then total lockdown for just 14 days would be all that’s required, and we need to pull up the drawbridge!
But with air traffic continuing (I live close to an airport and it appears ‘Business as usual’) this could be too difficult to sustain unless some hard decisions are made by governments. Not likely…
Covid data for Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Global Cases: 41,040,619
Increase: 392,092
Global Deaths: 1,129,591
Increase: 6,599
Australia
Cases 27,443 Change: 38
Deaths 905 Change: 0
Critical 1
Cases per Million 1,072
UK
Cases 762,542 Change: 21,330
Deaths 43,967 Change: 241
Critical 629
Cases per Million 11,215
USA
Cases 8,520,307 Change: 63,654
Deaths 226,149 Change: 927
Critical 15,714
Cases per Million 25,695
One big problem with the fist proposition (immunity or resistance) is ther we have already seen cases of documented reinfection.
Worse still is that the second infection has been more severe!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30783-0/fulltext
Sadly despite all the work done so far there remains a great deal about this virus that is not understood.
Here’s the latest in masks 
If that was the case Zaphod, then a vaccine wouldn’t work because a vaccine works on the same principal of building resistance through infection. Some people do not respond to a vaccine or build antibodies through infection.
I don’t think she quite understood the advice Percy…
Thats a good one, OGF !!
Wonder if anybody else gets it??
Donkeyman!
Around one in four people hospitalised with COVID-19 suffer heart damage, according to new research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.