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  #2656105 14-Feb-2021 13:24
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Just what we need 6 days out from our wedding.



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  #2656106 14-Feb-2021 13:34
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no prime minister usually means no lockdown yet





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  #2656107 14-Feb-2021 13:36
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vexxxboy:no prime minister usually means no lockdown yet

 

But she is returning to Wellington presently.




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  #2656108 14-Feb-2021 13:37
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Three cases, same family.

PM flying back to WLG and will not attend Big Gay Out AKL today.




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  #2656110 14-Feb-2021 13:48
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Watch the Covid Tracer App scans spike as a result!


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  #2656113 14-Feb-2021 14:02
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And queues of people 'not been feeling well' suddenly lined up when they should have previously

Or those being 'cautious' when there is explicit criteria

I didn't like them shrugging off 1 question, if there was a campaign to notify people at the supermarket

It's valid. Sure, a set timeframe is targeted. But some people visit daily and may not be up with the play while being there during the period too

Stores still have up 'do not enter if you have been overseas in last 14 days or near someone who has' - which is all but impossible now. An alert should be no different

If you were in this store friday between... Do not enter.

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  #2656145 14-Feb-2021 14:31
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Oblivian: And queues of people 'not been feeling well' suddenly lined up when they should have previously

Or those being 'cautious' when there is explicit criteria

I didn't like them shrugging off 1 question, if there was a campaign to notify people at the supermarket

It's valid. Sure, a set timeframe is targeted. But some people visit daily and may not be up with the play while being there during the period too

Stores still have up 'do not enter if you have been overseas in last 14 days or near someone who has' - which is all but impossible now. An alert should be no different

If you were in this store friday between... Do not enter.

 

 

 

for a 10 minute visit and when no one has caught covid in a supermarket and yes there is always the first time but what they have done is fine.





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  #2656148 14-Feb-2021 14:45
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The fact the people with it are not returnees or MIQ facility workers will be raising alarm bells.

 

It could mean it may have jumped from an asymptomatic person to them. 

 

Today and tomorrow will give an indication, but I would assume that a change in alert levels could be on the cards.


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  #2656149 14-Feb-2021 14:49
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Skychef employee.
Certainly recovery and cleaning of meal carts and laundry is risky, and all those handing the used carts may need to review process.
Her main duties at the company involved laundry duties, but she was also involved in some of the packing and preparation of food.
They may also do Quarantine center laundry where all the NZ cases are, thats more risky still ? 

 

Covid Tracer app is a critical tool here.
Not just for recoding where and when you were, but it can warn you if you let it.
If you allow Bluetooth and others do, it can work even better, also should you forget to scan, or get a poster thats difficult to scan.
Certainly my experience in Auckland is you don't have to worry about a queue to scan, pity.

 

Fingers crossed and hoping for limited contacts and potential for spread.

 

Necessity is mother of more than invention, and you do what you have to do.
It would be horrible to have a UK like outbreak a mere months before we get mass vaccination underway.
Melbourne situation where you have upwards of almost a thousand contacts you end up with little choice.

 

The family did the right thing, got tested, and promptly, so good on them.
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Bloomfield said these people had done the right thing - when the mother developed symptoms, she and her daughter had a test.
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Covid-19 update: Three new community cases in Auckland | RNZ News


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  #2656151 14-Feb-2021 14:59
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vexxxboy:

for a 10 minute visit and when no one has caught covid in a supermarket and yes there is always the first time but what they have done is fine.



Could have said the same for normal retail setting.

But guess what, someone at a clothing store had undefined links too. Previously stores have closed for a day or 2 additionally even with small visits.

No details on scanning data or the ability to alert the people in that hour to take precautions like they have asked for. And for such a gap, A sign outside could easily reinforce the message.

Can't focus on a supermarket not being a previous indication of infection, even the coldstore case remained unexplained. Believe a few miq incidents too.

Said it themselves. Abundance of caution. An abundance wouldn't normally stop at a sole press conf.

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  #2656161 14-Feb-2021 15:44
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Jas777:

 

The fact the people with it are not returnees or MIQ facility workers will be raising alarm bells.

 

It could mean it may have jumped from an asymptomatic person to them. 

 

Today and tomorrow will give an indication, but I would assume that a change in alert levels could be on the cards.

 

 

 

 

I think they would have done this already if it was Perth. We saw what happened last time when it got into the Auckland community, with the Auckland lockdown. We have been lucky so far, but I wouldn't be surprised if our luck maybe running out here. Luckily we have moved our immunization program forward, but I can't understand why it would take the entire year to immunisise everyone in NZ, when they appear to be doing it far quicker in the UK, and it appears immunization maybe an annual thing from now on.


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  #2656163 14-Feb-2021 15:47
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ezbee:

 

 

 

Covid Tracer app is a critical tool here.
Not just for recoding where and when you were, but it can warn you if you let it.
If you allow Bluetooth and others do, it can work even better, also should you forget to scan, or get a poster thats difficult to scan.
Certainly my experience in Auckland is you don't have to worry about a queue to scan, pity.

 

 

 

 

Contact tracing is likely too late, due to the lack of people doing it. It should have been compulsory, so people then got into a habit IMO. Instead people only appear to start getting into scanning when a case pops up in the community, and then a few days later they stop again. I have been watching the entrance of a local super market since the lockdown ended  and can see this happening.


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  #2656280 14-Feb-2021 18:14
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vexxxboy:

no prime minister usually means no lockdown yet



PM speaking at 7pm on a Sunday

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  #2656281 14-Feb-2021 18:16
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Places of interest:

McDonalds Drury, Te Rewarewa Bridge, Sumela Kebab, Amber Court Hotel, Pukekura Park, Egmont Regional Park, Cycle Inn New Plymouth, Puke Ariki Library and Museum, Pizza Hut New Plymouth, Back Beach, McDonalds Otorohanga, Pak'nSave Manukau, Chemist Warehouse Westfield Manukau, Bunnings Warehouse Manukau, Bunnings Warehouse Takanini, Bunnings Warehouse Botany, Ranfurly Skinny Superette.

In addition, Papatoetoe High School is also an MoH location of interest




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  #2656283 14-Feb-2021 18:27
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Batman:
vexxxboy:

 

no prime minister usually means no lockdown yet

 



PM speaking at 7pm on a Sunday

 

 

 

IMO , it sounds like the possibility of moving up levels for Auckland. Level 3?, and maybe level 2 for the rest of NZ? Basing this on it likely being the UK or SA version and what has happened in Perth. Guessing it will occur on Monday.


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