Australia & New Zealand - COVID-19 Coronavirus

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I don't think so Donald. We nailed it!

As US coronavirus cases approach one million and deaths passed 56,000, Donald Trump applauded the nation's testing regime as 'far better than any other country'
Just In - 9News - Latest news and headlines from Australia and the world

 

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Queen phones NZ PM over coronavirus

The Queen has telephoned New Zealand's prime minister to see how the country is coping during the coronavirus pandemic. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it was "such a treat" to take a phone call from the Queen.
Jacinda Ardern said she received a "wee note" saying the monarch wanted to "catch up and see how everyone in New Zealand was getting on in the midst of COVID-19".
https://www.9news.com.au/world/queens-phones-nz-pm-over-coronavirus/1728d88f-6f8f-4eb0-9201-6fe41a111551

 

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Coronavirus recovery: ACT becomes first state or territory to be free of known cases of COVID-19

The ACT has become the first Australian jurisdiction to be free of all known cases of COVID-19.
After a total of 106 diagnoses and three deaths in the ACT, Jan Stoop, the last Canberran to test positive to coronavirus, has recovered.
Mr Stoop caught COVID-19 from his wife Irene after she returned from South Africa days before the international travel ban was announced.
Irene Stoop said when she was first diagnosed with coronavirus it felt like a "death sentence".

She was fatigued, and her own cooking became disgusting to her as she lost her senses of taste and smell.
But just as she began to recover, her husband fell ill.
"He got really sick," she said.
"I really struggled with fever … I went through three t-shirts a night," Mr Stoop added.
Coronavirus recovery: ACT becomes first state or territory to be free of known cases of COVID-19 - ABC News

 

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Newmarch House records new death as families push to extract healthy residents

I can’t imagine how anxious the families are for their loved ones.
My 94 yr old mum is in a nursing home not far from Newmarch and to date there’s no virus there.
Newmarch wss not answering any concerned calls from the families until the Govt stepped in, where my mum’s home is even allowing us Skype calls from the carers personal mobiles.

Everything crossed for all our elderly loved ones.

 

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Newmarch House records new death as families push to extract healthy residents

I can’t imagine how anxious the families are for their loved ones.
My 94 yr old mum is in a nursing home not far from Newmarch and to date there’s no virus there.
Newmarch wss not answering any concerned calls from the families until the Govt stepped in, where my mum’s home is even allowing us Skype calls from the carers personal mobiles.

Everything crossed for all our elderly loved ones.

Good to hear your mum is doing well, tgy, sounds like she's in a good aged care facility.
Newmarch should release the healthy residents to their families for care and isolate them at home.

 

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Good to hear your mum is doing well, tgy, sounds like she's in a good aged care facility.
Newmarch should release the healthy residents to their families for care and isolate them at home.

It’s good to see you around Prime & I’ve always loved your posts.
Those nursing homes are God’s waiting rooms and unless it’s an injury or similar the residents are not taken to hospital, a no resusitation is adhered to and then make them comfortable awaiting death.
It’s barbaric those residents have not been taken to hospital.

 

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Total deaths linked to the facility to fourteen.
A resident died in hospital after she had previously tested negative twice.

NSW Health has stepped in to help Anglicare Sydney run the facility, which has been operating with just 25 per cent of its original staff.
Two new cases being confirmed today.

There have now been 63 cases confirmed at the home, including at least 37 residents.

Elderly Sydney nursing home resident dies amid fears of second wave

 

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May 3, 2020
Australia has now recorded 95 deaths.

The number of reported cases is at 6787, a rise of 14 in the previous 24 hours.

Australia's COVID-19 toll reaches 95 - 9News

 

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Last updated 1.00 pm, 3 May 2020

New Zealand.
Number of confirmed cases 1,136
Number of deaths 20
COVID-19 - current cases

 

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Nobel prize-winning scientist says Australia 'panicked' when it went into lockdown and made a 'huge mistake' - as he claims the country is a 'standout loser' for devastating the economy

Alison Bevege For Daily Mail Australia
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A Nobel Prize-winning mathematical modeller has slammed Australia as a 'standout loser' for damaging its economy with coronavirus lockdowns, but medical scientists and economists have blasted his ideas as 'dangerous'.

Stanford University professor of structural biology Michael Levitt, who specialises in mathematical models, branded lockdowns a 'huge mistake'.


Professor Levitt, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2013, said he was in favour of 'herd immunity', which means letting enough of the population catch the virus to develop immunity so that it doesn't spread.
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He said Germany and Sweden had been the standout winners in their response to the coronavirus.

'They didn't practice too much lockdown, enough people got sick to get some herd immunity,' he said on YouTube channel UnHerd in a video uploaded Saturday.

'And the standout losers are Austria, Australia, Israel, which have had strict lockdowns without many cases. They have damaged their economies, society, harmed the education of their children but not obtained any herd immunity.'

 

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COVID-19 could be lurking within community for 'up to' two years

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A leading professor of microbiology has warned Australians are going to have to be on their guard for the foreseeable future since COVID-19 will be lurking within the community for at least "the next six months to two years."
Infectious Diseases Physician Professor Peter Collignon told Sky News said the key to keeping COVID-19 manageable is stopping "droplet transmission."

"This is mainly spread by droplets, people who have got mild infections, coughing or sneezing, touching their hands and contaminating surfaces," he said.

"We are going to have to work out how we stop what we stop droplet transmission and that is actually washing our hands, keeping 1.5 metres away from each other as much as possible.
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He said while there will likely be a second wave of transmission in winter, Professor Collignon said it will likely be a "ripple instead of a tsunami."

"It is likely in winter we will see more cases than we see now," he said.

"We know what we have to do to stop this spreading, and so if we get a second wave, if we keep on doing what we are doing, we can make it a little ripple and not a tsunami.

"While we will have clusters, and we will have some spread, we will be able to keep it under control and not be anything like we are seeing on television.

"We will be much closer to Korea than we will be to New York."

 

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Jacinda Ardern promotes coronavirus 'travel bubble' between Australia and New Zealand

New Zealand PM will join meeting with Australia’s Scott Morrison and state premiers on Tuesday, as Covid-19 cases dwindle in both countries
New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, will join Australia’s national cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss approaches to managing the coronavirus, including the possible implementation of a trans-Tasman “travel bubble” between the two countries.
Jacinda Ardern promotes coronavirus 'travel bubble' between Australia and New Zealand

 

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Now today 15 deaths in the Newmarch nursing home.
What the hell are they doing! It’s reported residents don’t want to leave as they consider it their home but when my mum broke her arm, there were no questions asked, it was ambulance and hospital for her.
It’s no different in my opinion! The nursing homes are NOT equipped to attend to these cases. People don’t suddenly die from C-19, get them to hospital IMO

 

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Nobel prize-winning scientist says Australia 'panicked' when it went into lockdown and made a 'huge mistake' - as he claims the country is a 'standout loser' for devastating the economy

Alison Bevege For Daily Mail Australia
8 hrs ago
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A Nobel Prize-winning mathematical modeller has slammed Australia as a 'standout loser' for damaging its economy with coronavirus lockdowns, but medical scientists and economists have blasted his ideas as 'dangerous'.

Stanford University professor of structural biology Michael Levitt, who specialises in mathematical models, branded lockdowns a 'huge mistake'.


Professor Levitt, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2013, said he was in favour of 'herd immunity', which means letting enough of the population catch the virus to develop immunity so that it doesn't spread.
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He said Germany and Sweden had been the standout winners in their response to the coronavirus.

'They didn't practice too much lockdown, enough people got sick to get some herd immunity,' he said on YouTube channel UnHerd in a video uploaded Saturday.

'And the standout losers are Austria, Australia, Israel, which have had strict lockdowns without many cases. They have damaged their economies, society, harmed the education of their children but not obtained any herd immunity.'

I think he's wrong, if we had thousands of people in every hospital with Covid19, we wouldn't be able to cope, there wouldn't be enough ventilators or a way to quarantine thousands of people with a highly contagious illness within a hospital. Does he expect the sick should stay home and die?
His ideas are dangerous and ignorant!

Herd immunity will happen but it should be spaced out so we can protect the vulnerable. To have the entire nation sick within a few months, we'd lose thousands of lives, so people like him can prosper?! He lives and breathes the green paper, poor sick lost soul!

 

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Now today 15 deaths in the Newmarch nursing home.
What the hell are they doing! It’s reported residents don’t want to leave as they consider it their home but when my mum broke her arm, there were no questions asked, it was ambulance and hospital for her.
It’s no different in my opinion! The nursing homes are NOT equipped to attend to these cases. People don’t suddenly die from C-19, get them to hospital IMO

I agree, this is shocking! Why aren't they taken to hospital?

 

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I totally agree with you Prime, that egghead scientist is a knucklehead.
I’m ultra proud of us Aussies and our Kiwi mates across the ditch. Morrison & Adhern closed the borders against all criticism and won the day.
Winter is on our doorstep and it’s normal flu season so IMO we should still be vigilant. It would be dire to get C-19 + the common flu together.
That Newmarch nursing home is an insight of what could’ve been.

 

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Good news for Kiwis. No new cases for 2 days!!!

Covid 19 coronavirus: Zero new cases for second day in a row

 

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In the last 24 hours NSW recorded four new coronavirus cases, three of which were Newmarch House staff.
The coronavirus cluster at the Caddens nursing home started when a staff member worked six shifts last month despite displaying mild coronavirus symptoms.
The crisis deepened yesterday when the facility's operator, Anglicare, asked healthcare contractor Aspen Medical to stand down one of its staff at Newmarch House, over alleged breaches of infection control.
An Anglicare spokesperson said the breach was in relation to personal protective equipment (PPE) protocol.

Newmarch House records 16th coronavirus death, three more staff test positive - ABC News

 

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In the last 24 hours NSW recorded four new coronavirus cases, three of which were Newmarch House staff.
The coronavirus cluster at the Caddens nursing home started when a staff member worked six shifts last month despite displaying mild coronavirus symptoms.
The crisis deepened yesterday when the facility's operator, Anglicare, asked healthcare contractor Aspen Medical to stand down one of its staff at Newmarch House, over alleged breaches of infection control.
An Anglicare spokesperson said the breach was in relation to personal protective equipment (PPE) protocol.

Newmarch House records 16th coronavirus death, three more staff test positive - ABC News

Prime, if my mum was in there I’d break in and bring her home. I know how to wash my hands and wear damn gloves.
This is truly heartbreaking.

Please protect our precious elderly from incompetent idiots!

 

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Coronavirus-hit Newmarch House could have its licence revoked, aged care commission says

The Commission said it was concerned about the lack of information being provided to patients and their families, and the lack of suitable processes in place to control transmission of the virus at the facility.
The Commission has also identified four key areas where operator Anglicare may have breached Aged Care Quality Standards. They are: patient dignity and choice; personal and clinical care; ongoing planning with residents; and organisational governance.

Coronavirus-hit Newmarch House could have its licence revoked, aged care commission says - ABC News