NSW Update

Questions?

Sydney host cricket

Too early to make pronouncements
This strain is a challenge but variations to a virus not unusual-it is what happens

Sometimes increases risk and sometimes decrease risk

Qld taken steps they feel are necessary and happy to ensure rules that apply, apply in NSW
Why not have no crowd at test?

Made decisions in consult with Cricket Aust and Health

Provides sense of normalcy
Driving over border of Qld in next hours-how confident will isolate themselves?

If you don't have to come from Brisbane don't come

If need to then comply with requirements placed on you
Why Wollongong still in with GS(show cancelled)?

Always part of GS to deal with mobility of individuals

Regions at lower risk but ask communities to test when have episode like 18 yo who travelled

This is about PH
Number of breaches from HQ -any breaches from health accommodation-do they have extra precautions ?

Health accommodation has more complex patients and staffed by nursing staff -like a variation of a hospital setting
Seeing complex health needs in travellers more so than earlier

Gives COVID care and medical care for other conditions
Moving into time to see every person as infectious end to end in their journey

Doing surveillance testing-been in place for some time and progressively rolled out
Hasn't been transmission breaches
But high vigilance for near misses
Need high reporting culture
Human system
About vigilance and making sure all part of team and respond to it

If said no events then system not working-have bee minor transgressions but no transmission
Re looking at everything we need to do
NB cases and removing lockdown?
Stellar testing in NB but urging last push
If woken up with headache or scratchy throat-don't wait and get a test

No clear cut answer as to how person got it

Doing more testing
CHO

Best minds in world looking at information on variant
Last few weeks AHPPC put out statement lie e are sitting on fence and need more info

Been a bit of a shirt and consensus expert advice to say it looks like there is something real about increased transmissibility
Need more studies as combination of factors lead to transmission

Indoors is highest risk
Increased density and don't have controls, people mixing recipe for COVID transmission

Poorly ventilated spaces indoors and households are critical

These things need to be teased out
Problem with targeting any one country as we are a world

Great genomic expertise -are sequencing and it is timely and virologists who are among best in world will alert PH teams in case it influences management of patient to PH implications
Much relies on licences and addresses-people don't always update ?

Barilaro
No system 100% full proof

relies on trust

If someone wants to do wrong thing with CCTV and data we collect will find you

People will dob you in as don't want to live with fear and anxiety in 2021
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