COVID-19 / Australia / 8th, 10th & 14th August Update.

Since my last post on this subject things have gone from bad to worse.
NSW is entering its seventh week of lockdown, after recording 262 new cases today, taking the total to over 4400 since 26th June.
Another person with Covid-19 died, meaning 28 people have passed away since the start of this outbreak.
There are 362 cases admitted to hospital, with 58 in intensive care and 24 requiring ventilation.
Of the 58 cases in intensive care, five are in their 20s, seven in their 30s, four in their 40s, 17 in their 50s, seven in their 60s, 15 in the 70s and three in their 80s.
So young people are certainly getting caught up with this disease.
With the people in ICU, 54 were not vaccinated, three had received their first dose of AstraZeneca and one had received their first dose of Pfizer vaccine.

Victoria is on day four of a seven-day lockdown, with real concern that cases will continue to surge. The state recorded 11 cases today bringing the active case number to 100. They are all linked to existing cases, as authorities race to work out the source of this outbreak.
Those in south-east Queensland are waiting to see if their lockdown is being lifted today as originally planned, after the state recorded 13 cases yesterday, all linked to the Indooroopilly cluster.
I can only repeat this should never have happened.
The poor vaccine rollout (inadequate supply + chaotic distribution), lax quarantine regulations and a ‘Claytons’ state lockdown are the chickens that have well and truly come home to roost.
We have been let down by both the federal and NSW state governments.

Update: 10th August

There have now been 5805 cases and 32 deaths in NSW since 16th June.

There were over 234,000 doses of vaccine administered across the country on Monday, bringing the total number of doses to just short of 14m.

Update:14th August

The state of New South Wales will go into total lockdown at 5pm today for a week.

We were advised of this at 2:30pm!

The Delta variant is obviously out of control and has escaped Sydney and adjacent cities and is now in the regional areas.

The state government’s lame attempts to contain it since mid June have brought us to this situation.

This will not affect the co-driver and me to any great extent as we had already decided to ‘stay at home’ when the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) went into lockdown a few days ago and Canberra people headed for the coast to escape it.

But we had to quickly place a ‘click and collect’ grocery order today to get us through the next week for pickup early tomorrow.