Melbourne lockdown ends 22nd October 2021

[Bobby]

Looks like the lockdown is mostly over by Friday morning.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-17/ ... /100545492


The lockdown in Melbourne and parts of regional Victoria will lift from 11:59pm on Thursday
when the state is expected to reach its goal of having 70 per cent of those aged 16+ fully vaccinated.
Key points:

There have been 145 deaths in Victoria during the Delta outbreak
The lockdown will lift at 11:59pm this Thursday
Soon, more than 90 per cent of Victorians aged 16+ will have had at least one vaccine dose

Across the state, people will be allowed to have 10 visitors at their home each day,
including dependents.

In metropolitan Melbourne, the curfew and the 15-kilometre travel radius will be lifted,
but travel restrictions between Melbourne and regional Victoria will remain in place.

Child care will remain open to those already attending, as well as to the children of fully vaccinated adults.

In Melbourne, most outdoor venues such as cafes, cinemas and pools, will be able to open to up to 50 people, subject to density limits.

Indoor venues such as cafes and restaurants will be able to open to 20 people, with density limits and as long as everyone is fully vaccinated.

In regional Victoria, most of which is already operating under eased restrictions, 30 fully vaccinated people will be allowed in indoor settings and up to 100 in outdoor settings.

Premier Daniel Andrews said the announcement marked the end of broad lockdowns.
Victoria restrictions eases
A view of Melbourne's CBD, with trams running and people on footpaths.

Victoria's Premier says the state's lockdown will lift at 11:59pm on Thursday, when 70 per cent of eligible adults are expected to be fully vaccinated.
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"Today, we are moving beyond that," he said.

"So we're not locking people down anymore across the board.

"We are instead locking people out who have not got vaccinated to protect themselves and protect everybody else."

Meanwhile, Victoria has recorded 1,838 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths.

Those deaths were three men, aged in their 50s, 70s and 80s, and a woman in her 60s from Hume, a man in his 80s from the Mornington Peninsula, a man in his 80s from Darebin and a woman in her 80s from Whittlesea.[/quote]

[Bobby]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-18/ ... /100546704


Victoria records 1,903 new local COVID-19 cases
and seven deaths


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Victoria has recorded 1,903 new local COVID-19 cases and seven deaths as the state moves closer to the end of its lockdown.

There are now 22,327 active cases of the virus in Victoria, and 152 people have died during the current Delta outbreak.

The new cases were identified from 69,825 test results received yesterday.

There were 32,405 doses of vaccine administered at state-run sites yesterday, and more doses delivered at GP clinics and other venues.

Yesterday, Premier Daniel Andrews announced Victoria's lockdown would end at 11:59pm on Thursday when the state reaches its goal of having 70 per cent of people aged 16+ fully vaccinated.

More to come.

[Black Orchid]

and 152 people have died during the current Delta outbreak.

Did they all die from Covid? We'll never really know.

[Bobby]

and 152 people have died during the current Delta outbreak.

Did they all die from Covid? We'll never really know.

I don't trust the PCR test.
Some sites are saying that it picks up harmless forms of the common cold -
groups known as Coronavirus and even Rhinovirus.
People are being locked up for 14 days when they have an ordinary common cold.

[Bobby]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-19/ ... /100549554

Victoria records new 1,749 local COVID-19 cases
and 11 deaths

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Victoria has recorded 1,749 new local COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths.

There are now 22,476 active cases of the virus in Victoria, and 163 people have died during the current Delta outbreak.

The new cases were detected from 68,702 test results received yesterday.

There were 36,751 doses of vaccine administered at state-run sites yesterday, as well as more vaccinations at GP clinics and other venues.

More to come.

[Bobby]

Dan has more plans for us.

https://xyz.net.au/2021/10/well-into-20 ... der-siege/





Transcript -
“Why would you get the system going, why would you get the thing up and running, and then essentially pull all that down, pull all the architecture that you’ve built, the infrastructure that you’ve built, the culture that you’ve changed – why would you change that four or five weeks later? We will not be doing that here.

“I’m not going to say to someone, “oh just wait us out will ya, just wait four or five weeks and then you’ll be able to go to the pub.” No, if you make the judgement to not get vaccinated and you reckon you can wait out us or the publican or whoever you wanna think you’re waiting out, you won’t wait out the virus, cos the virus will be here for a long time, and your only protection against it is being vaccinated.

“This will be well into 2022.

“Well and truly into 2022. Then we’re going to get into booster issues so it won’t be your first and second dose, it’ll be have you had your third, and then the other issue will be, well, who knows what variant’s coming? Who knows? Look, we don’t.”

[Bobby]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-20/ ... /100552372


Victoria records 1,841 new local COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths
as state nears vaccination target

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Victoria has recorded 1,841 new local COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths as the state moves closer to coming out of lockdown.

There are now 22,598 active cases of the virus in Victoria, and 175 people have died during the current Delta outbreak.

The new infections were detected from 78,928 test results received yesterday.

According to the latest Commonwealth vaccination numbers, 89.21 per cent of people aged 16+ in Victoria have received at least one dose of vaccine, and 69.28 per cent are fully vaccinated.

More to come.

[Bobby]

Victoria records 2,232 new local COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-21/ ... /100555616

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Victoria has recorded 2,232 new local cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths, as metropolitan Melbourne and Mildura prepare to leave lockdown tonight.
Key points:

The latest deaths take the toll for the current Delta outbreak in Victoria to 187
Victoria has officially vaccinated more than 70 per cent of its population aged 16+
Melbourne's lockdown will lift at 11:59pm, with a limited reopening of hospitality venues

There are now 22,889 active cases of the virus in Victoria, and 187 people have died during the current Delta outbreak.

The 12 people who died were a man in his 40s, two men and two women in their 60s, one man and one woman in their 70s, three women and a man in their 80s and a woman in her 90s.

There are 779 people in hospital with COVID-19, 141 people in intensive care and 96 on a ventilator.

The new cases were identified from 79,544 test results received yesterday.

Victoria has passed the 70 per cent full-vaccination milestone that will officially trigger the end of Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdown at 11:59pm tonight.

The state has also passed the milestone of 90 per cent of people aged 16+ receiving at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed this morning that both Victoria and Tasmania now had 70 per cent of their 16+ population fully vaccinated.

[Black Orchid]

‘It’s crap’: Victorian study claiming mandatory masks stopped second wave shredded by experts.

A “world-first” Australian study into face masks has been ripped to shreds as “very, very low quality”, with questions over how it was even published.

A “world-first” Australian study which Victoria’s government has held up as proof its mandatory face mask policy worked is riddled with basic errors and should never have been published in a major journal, medical researchers and experts say.

Victoria first made face masks mandatory outside the home in Melbourne during its second coronavirus wave in July 2020, but the Department of Health has been unable to provide any scientific research or studies upon which the decision was made.

Instead, the Department of Health directed news.com.au to a paper published in July this year by the Burnet Institute – an influential public health body which has come under fire in recent months for its alarmist predictions – as justification for the mandate which has resulted in thousands of dollars in fines for Victorians.

The study claimed the mandatory face mask rule had turned the pandemic “almost overnight”.

“There has been a lot of low-quality research that has come out in the pandemic, but for this to be used as a basis for a policy change is staggering,” said Dr Kyle Sheldrick, a medical researcher and PhD candidate at the University of NSW.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/scie ... de598f49ab

[Bobby]

‘It’s crap’: Victorian study claiming mandatory masks stopped second wave shredded by experts.

I always thought so.
I hate wearing a mask outside.