Sunday, 5 September 2021

Well into the third month of the NSW Delta Variant outbreak and the outlook is not looking hopeful for the state *regular updates*

 


DAY 78: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Wednesday 1 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 23,586 people - inclusive of 107 deathsThere are currently 957 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 160 people in intensive care, 64 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,288 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.


Of the 1,288 locally acquired cases reported to 8pm 1 September 2021:

445 are from Western Sydney Local Health District (LHD);

387 are from South Western Sydney LHD;

149 are from Sydney LHD, 68 are from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD;

101 are from South Eastern Sydney LHD;

82 are from Nepean Blue Mountains LHD:

31 are from Northern Sydney LHD;

23 are from Western NSW LHD;

22 are from Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD;

are from Central Coast LHD,

are from Far West LHD;

are from Hunter New England LHD;

11 are in a correctional centre; and

21 cases are yet to be assigned to an LHD.


From 22 February to 31 August 2021 the total New South Wales percentage of fully vaccinated persons aged 16yrs to over 90 yrs was 37.1 per cent


According to the Northern NSW Local Health District, on 1 September 2021:


There are no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in residents of Northern NSW Local Health District.


Further investigations into potential venues of concern related to a positive COVID-19 case from outside the District have confirmed that this person was not infectious in the Casino area as originally advised.

Comprehensive contact tracing has established that this person acquired their infection in the days after leaving Northern NSW on Saturday 21 August, upon returning to Sydney. There is no risk to the community from this person’s presence in the region.


DAY 79: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Thursday 2 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 25,002 people - inclusive of 119 deathsThere are currently 979 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 160 people in intensive care, 63 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,431 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.



DAY 80: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Friday 3 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 26,517 people - inclusive of 123 deathsThere are currently 1,041 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 173 people in intensive care, 62 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,533 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.


Sydney Children's Hospital Network (SCHN) has confirmed it is providing health services to more than 2,000 children, including 3 children in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit.


The deaths to date so far during the NSW Delta Variant Outbreak represent 68.71% of all NSW deaths with a COVID-19 diagnosis since the pandemic first entered Australia and the state in January 2020.


Senior members of the NSW Government - in what appears to be a craven spirit of 'victim blaming' - continue at every opportunity to highlight the number of unvaccinated people in the daily death toll. However, they remains firmly silent about the fact that since August 2021 fully vaccinated individuals can also be found in the state's COVID-19 death toll. There were 21 deaths as a result of COVID-19 reported in the week ending 14 August 2021, according to NSW Health COVID-19 weekly surveillance report for Epidemiological Week 32 5 of those deaths (or 23.80%) were of people who were fully vaccinated and 2 were of people partially vaccinated. 


Australian Government "Dept. of Health States and Territories Report", 3 September 2021.


Confirmed New Locally Acquired COVID-19 Cases In Last 24 hrs:


NSW (LNP) 1,432

Victoria (Lab) 96

ACT (Lab) 13

Qld (Lab) 0

WA (Lab) 0

NT (Lab) 0

SA (Lib) 0

Tas (Lib) 0. 


NOTE: NSW, Victoria &/or Australian Capital Territory daily infection totals are expected to rise sharply, as Morrison Government departmental daily figures often lag behind published state statistics.



State of the Borders on 4 September 2021:



On 4 September 2021 WA Labor Premier Mark McGowan announced that Western Australia borders will remain closed until 2022with border public health travel restriction tightening from 6 September 2021. Especially for travel from NSW, Vic, & ACT. 


On 2 September NT Government was still not permitting travellers entry if they came from or passed through a declared Covid-19 hotspot or public exposure site. Such travellers will be turned back at the border and might be fined.


SA Government continues to apply different levels of restriction on travellers from other states and territories.


The ACT Government has tightened its border restrictions – the national capital is currently in lockdown until 17 September 2021. Non-ACT residents entering from locked down areas of Queensland, Victoria or NSW will not be allowed to enter unless they have an exemption, which will only be granted in exceptional circumstances


Victoria is further tightening its border with NSW, with Premier Daniel Andrews indicating it could remain closed until the end of the year. The Vic-NSW border bubble was considerably reduced in size on 2 September 2021.


Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is holding firm on not opening that state's borders until children under 12 years of age are also vaccinated


Tasmania's state border remains firmly regulated and entry into the state requires registration prior to entry. Travellers who have spent time in a high-risk area within Australia in the 14 days before arriving in Tasmania are not permitted to enter Tasmania, unless approved as an Essential Traveller.



New South Wales remains in a state-wide lockdown until at least 10 September 2021.


For further historical information see: 


NSW Health media releases at https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2021-nsw-health.aspx


COVID-19 State of Play in New South Wales from 25 -31 July 2021


Covid-19State Of Play in New South Wales, from 1 August to 31 August 2021 - Running Sheet



For political context:


 


DAY 81: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Saturday 4 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 27,984 people - inclusive of 126 deathsThere are currently 1,030 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 175 people in intensive care, 72 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,485 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.



DAY 82: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Sunday 5 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 29,253 people - inclusive of 131 deathsThere are currently 1,071 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 171 people in intensive care, 67 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,281 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.



DAY 83: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Monday 6 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 30,456 people - inclusive of 139 deathsThere are currently 1,151 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 192 people in intensive care, 75 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,220 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.




DAY 84: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Tuesday 7 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 31,914 people - inclusive of 148 deathsThere are currently 1,136 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 194 people in intensive care, 78 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,480 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.


The status of the entire NSW public health system has been listed Red for the last 4 weeks.


https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/critical-intelligence-unit/dashboard




















DAY 85: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Wednesday 8 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 33,296 people - inclusive of 153 deathsThere are currently 1,175 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 202 people in intensive care, 80 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,405 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.




DAY 86: NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Thursday 9 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 34,804 people - inclusive of 162 deathsThere are currently 1,156 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 205 people in intensive care, 78 of whom require ventilation


NSW recorded 1,542 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.



DAY 87NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Friday 10 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 36,374 people - inclusive of 170 deaths. There are currently 1,164 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 221 people in intensive care, 74 of whom require ventilation.


NSW recorded 1,599 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 up to 8pm.



The deaths up to Day 87 of the NSW Delta Variant Outbreak represent 75.22% of all NSW deaths with a COVID-19 diagnosis since the pandemic first entered Australia and the state in January 2020.



From January 2020 to 10 September 2021 the cumulative total of COVID-19 infections from all sources had reached 42,000 cases.



According to NSW Health a cumulative total of 1,037,036 NSW residents had been fully vaccinated by 8pm on 10 September 2021 out of an est. state population (ABS Dec 2020) of 8,172,500 men, women and children. 



On Friday 10 September 2021 NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced 11 am daily government COVID-19 press conferences will cease. Instead a daily NSW Health video outlining the overnight statistics will be supplied to the media.


In 2020 the Premier only ceased daily press conferences when NSW was recording a very low number of new COVID-19 infections per day.


It appears that Berejiklian does not have the personal moral stamina to daily face this state's residents, as they live through the illness and death over the next 4 to 6 chaotic months until the promised statistical infection curve flattens.




DAY 88NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Saturday 11 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 37,621 people - inclusive of 177 deathsThere are currently 1,206 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 220 people in intensive care, 92 of whom require ventilation.


NSW recorded 1,262 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 up to 8pm.



From 1 August 2021, 17 people with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis have died in their homes under the Berejiklian Government's "care in the community" scheme.


According to NSW Health a cumulative total of 1,050,599 NSW residents had been fully vaccinated by 8pm on 11 September 2021 out of an est. state population (ABS Dec 2020) of 8,172,500 men, women and children. 




DAY 89NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Sunday 12 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 38,856 people - inclusive of 184 deathsThere are currently 1,189 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 222 people in intensive care, 94 of whom require ventilation.


NSW recorded 1,257 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 up to 8pm.




DAY 90NSW Health data showed that, as of 8pm Monday 13 September 2021, the number of locally acquired COVID-19 infections since the 16 June beginning of the Delta Variant Outbreak in NSW now totals 39,954 people - inclusive of 186 deathsThere are currently 1,253 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 231 people in intensive care, 104 of whom require ventilation.


NSW recorded 1,127 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 up to 8pm.


Saturday, 4 September 2021

Meme of the Week

 


INSERTED IMAGE: Fish Consulting Group



Tweets of the Week


 


 



Quotes of the Week

 


"The inconvenient truth for Scott Morrison is that the Doherty modelling does not say it is safe to end lockdowns once the vaccination rate hits 70 or 80 per cent. Indeed, according to the Doherty modelling we could spend up to 39 per cent of our time in lockdown if we begin to open up when vaccination hits 70 per cent. [Chief economist at the Australia Institute Richard Denniss, in The New Daily, 24 August 2021]





"And no matter how many times the PM quotes the Doherty modelling, his false distinction between vaccines or lockdowns is all about messaging, not medicine." [Chief Economist at the Australia Institute Richard Denniss, 25 August 2021]




What's actually happened is the virus is considerably more infectious than the first variant that emerged. It also appears to be more virulent so you're seeing higher mortality levels, particularly in younger people. That's a much worse place we are now than I thought we'd be in a year or so ago." [Professor Edward Holmes FAA, FRS (Syd Uni), ABC News, 26 August 2021]




Analysis: the route Gladys Berejiklian is taking is defined by vaccination rates and hospitalisations – and it’s going to be brutal” [Gold Walkley-winning investigative reporter Anne Davies, writing in The Guardian, 26 August 2021]




"But our new authority figures are a bunch of modellers who aren't physically at the daily press conferences but whose work is quoted, and more often misquoted, as the source of instruction for what politicians do, rather than being what it is: advice on what happens if politicians make certain decisions." [Chief political correspondent ABC “7.30” program Laura Tingle, ABC News, 28 August 2021]




"It’s galling then, to tune in every day at 11am to watch the NSW premier reframing her abject failure as an act of courageous leadership." [Political Editor Katharine Murphy, The Guardian, 28 August 2021]




"Berejiklian is a Liberal team player who keeps her grievances about Morrison private. But, in private, she is scathing. The NSW Premier has told Liberal colleagues she’d have preferred that Peter Dutton had won the last federal leadership ballot – she’d rather be dealing with Dutton because Morrison is so unpleasant, she’s said. She’s described the PM as a “bully”. Berejiklian went so far as to tell a colleague that Morrison’s behaviour was “evil”." [Political & International Editor Peter Hartcher, The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August 2021]




Friday, 3 September 2021

Pigeons coming home to roost for protesting Covidiots at NSW-Qld border

 

 



Michael Corrigan, 52 year-old film stuntman from Murwillumbah NSW was reportedly arrested after participating in two separate anti-lockdown protests on the NSW-Qld border.


Echo NetDaily, 2 September 2021:


Police have arrested another man following an investigation into unauthorised protest activity across NSW earlier this week. 


Acting on information and intelligence, the NSW Police Force deployed more than 900 officers on Tuesday 31 August 2021, to conduct high-visibility patrols of various sites expected to be targeted by unauthorised protests, including NSW Parliament House and local council chambers. 


General Duties officers from across NSW were supported by the Public Order and Riot Squad, Operations Support Group, Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, Police Transport Command, the Dog and Mounted Unit, and other specialist units. 


Following investigations, a 52-year-old man attended Murwillumbah Police Station about 4.30pm yesterday (Wednesday, 1 September, 2021), where he was arrested and taken to Tweed Heads Police Station. 


The man was charged with unlawfully participate in outdoor gathering/stay at home area. He was given conditional bail to appear at Murwillumbah Local Court on 22 September 2021.....



NSW Police, News, 2 September 2021, excerpts:



During the operation, protestors crossed the border between Queensland at Coolangatta and NSW at Tweed Heads.



As part of ongoing investigations, police have today released images of five people who may be able to assist with inquiries.



The first man depicted is described as wearing a black t-shirt and cream cargo pants, with a GoPro strapped to his chest.



A second man depicted is described as wearing a faded grey t-shirt, orange pants and a blue and yellow face mask, holding a mobile phone.



A third man depicted is described as wearing a white t-shirt and a black cap.



A female depicted is described as wearing a black blouse and carrying a black handbag.



A fourth man depicted is described as wearing a black singlet and a black floppy hat, with a sleeve tattoo on his left arm.



Anyone with information about the identity of the five people – or has mobile phone footage of the protest activity – is urged to contact Crime Stoppers through the online portal or by contacting 1800 333 000.



Images released by NSW Police and published by ABC News, 2 Sept 2021