Sbiddle will love that an 'essential worker' has gone positive.

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arnies: NZ police are saying on Facebook you cannot drive somewhere to exercise, which is contrary to what the legislation says. It’s confusing a lot of people.

I think the legislation is meant to be inferred as - drive somewhere within your neighbourhood if you want, or further if you don’t have anywhere near you that is suitable (I.e if you’re in an apartment you can drive to a park?)

They should probably tweak the wording to make it clearer.

Edit: NZ police updated the post to remove the driving mention.

For anybody wanting to look through the actual order (rather than the simplified take from the press conferences and on the website) it is here:

https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2021/0210/latest/LMS536774.html

"Limited recreation purposes

(e) leave their home or place of residence for exercise or other recreation if—

(i) it is done in an outdoor place appropriate for that kind of exercise or recreation that is readily accessible (including by using their vehicle) from their home or place of residence; and
(ii) it is done in compliance with the requirements that relate to physical distancing (see clause 17) and the prohibition against gathering in outdoor places (see clause 21); and
(iii) it does not involve swimming, surfing, scuba-diving, water-based activities involving boating, sailing boats, motorised craft, or motorised equipment, hunting in motorised vehicles, tramping, or flying manned aircraft; and
(iv) it does not involve any other activities that expose the participant to danger or may require search and rescue services"

Interestingly the location only needs to be "readily accessible" (including by using their vehicle) from their home or place of residence, not restricted to just your neighborhood. And the purpose doesn't need to be exercise, other recreation (kite flying, sandcastle making, unmanned aircraft flying etc) is fine too.

Fred99: The same has happened everywhere when outbreaks start.  I don't know the process, but I'd expect that reagents and the test kits themselves have shelf life limitations, so it's probably not simple to ramp up to maximum capacity overnight.

Just when we thought 1000 contacts would be wiped off with the venue cancellation.

This happens..

A student at Western Springs College and a staff at Pukekohe High School, both in Auckland, have tested positive for Covid-19.

 

The student at Western Springs College was understood to have been in class on Tuesday August 17.

 

Parents were called earlier tonight and notified of the case.

 

This takes the total number of schools with confirmed Covid-19 case as a result of the latest Delta outbreak to seven.

 

Earlier, Pukekohe High School emailed staff to confirm that one of its staff had tested positive for the virus.

anyone has a link tree for all these cases?

surely they are not all linked to case 1.

if they are, it's barely a week.

In GER we’re heading to the next booster/refresher shot for everybody before northern hemisphere‘s winter time.

Batman:

 

anyone has a link tree for all these cases?

 

surely they are not all linked to case 1.

 

if they are, it's barely a week.

 

Doesn't appear to be one. And I expect it low on the table to make while they're frantically downing redbull and wearing their fingers off calling the thousands of identified contacts.

But could possibly piece it together if they drip-fed a bit more information from the daily MoH data releases. We obviously know A, wasn't really A. But all we get is 'they are gnomically linked' to the AKL cluster and known which doesn't help.

Obviously we learned about the flatties of 4 who went out and about and had a worker. Probably where A got it from. And the teacher is possibly a link to a few of the school start points.

But it's how it got to that flatting group. And who they then infected (or how it got to them) that has been found since we don't know

/edit. I was just collating some data to see if I could get a picture. 

Found an oops?...

19th:

There are 11 new cases of COVID-19 in the community to confirm. This brings the total number of community cases at this stage to 21.

20th:

There are 11 new cases of COVID-19 in the New Zealand community to confirm today. This brings the total number of cases associated with the current Auckland community outbreak to 31.

By my count. that's 32.

Also, if people wish to spread the word to their families etc before it is open season on Wednesday. (A few here have worked it out and posted examples here earlier today)

Sneakily hidden by a bottom of screen bar (at least on mine) is a scroll down to manage booking.

As long as you have a pre-booked code, seems quite easy if you hear word of a GP or new facility opening up to change dates. People have been quick to nab them soon after booking (like within a day or 2) while the rest are still a few weeks away (its MiQ booking all over..) or take cancelled slots.

Oblivian:

 

 

 

Found an oops?...

 

19th:

 

There are 11 new cases of COVID-19 in the community to confirm. This brings the total number of community cases at this stage to 21.

 

20th:

 

There are 11 new cases of COVID-19 in the New Zealand community to confirm today. This brings the total number of cases associated with the current Auckland community outbreak to 31.

 

By my count. that's 32.

 

 

 

On the 19th they were  counting the Air NZ flight steward as a community case. She was later reclassified to being a border case.

Technofreak:

 

You have to wonder that by and large we're not taking this lockdown as seriously as last time, especially when you see this.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126144332/covid19-wellingtonians-flock-to-oriental-bay-despite-lockdown

 

Perhaps there needs to be a lot more publicity around staing in your bubble, staying in your neighbourhood etc.

 

Im seeing this. March L4 is was so quiet. The very very occasional car. Now the traffic is steady, walkers galore, few walkers wearing masks. Ok if they are in their bubble but walking past others with Delta is a bad idea. ChCh and I imagine most places have a breeze most days

GV27:

 

Was just at North West in Auckland, plenty of idiots who were without masks in the Countdown or pulling them down to talk to each other. Why even wear a mask??

 

It's not like this is out of sight and out of mind, the shopping centre across the road is on a bus route that is now a LOI. 

 

If this is typical of the whole city then we deserve everything we're probably going to get, however if my shopping trip makes me a close contact of a case at some point then I'm going to have to isolate away from my newborn, and I shall be furious with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. 

 

Thats quite shocking, NSW-esque. Human nature could show that elsewhere in NZ "where there is no Covid" complacency, but not at the hotspot.

Batman: We have about 10,000 close contacts to monitor.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300388348/covid-19-nz-country-on-knifeedge-as-10000-contacts-of-delta-cases-identified-across-over-200-locations

Thats a lot. No doubt when a positive is found, they get called, the ones that are clear go into a long long queue to be contacted

Oblivian:

 

Sbiddle will love that an 'essential worker' has gone positive.

 

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Let's just hope we don't get any supermarket staff that test positive because that'll scare a lot of people.