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yes i have to fiddle with it, drives me nuts,

and now my surgery is off for, well im not sure, it was this coming wednesday! i was looking forward to sooking it up and wasting a day in bed getting waited on!
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In Victoria, 2 new local cases and 6 O/S (currently in HQ). 85 actives cases. 29,816 test results reported.
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In Victoria, 11 new local cases and 0 O/S. 94 actives cases. 24,265 test results reported.
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I understand that of that 11, 2 were announced yesterday in aged care, a client and nurse both of whom are vaccinated.

8 of the other 9 have apparently been in isolation during their infections period as they're close contacts of something.

More details when they get around to the press conference, but actually looking positive despite the numbers.
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sounds like the infected were doing the right thing so that is good
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yeah well, I suppose it's harder to go shopping for BBQ's or go to restaurants and night clubs when they're all shut.
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Oh, is that why they do it?

Here, from the ABC blog, is the bureaucratic explanation of the new figures:
The city of Whittlesea has a total of 32 cases, an increase of three. All three new cases in this outbreak are day 13 tests, people related to and are household members of previous positive cases. They continue to quarantine safely.

For the Port Melbourne outbreak, we have 31 positive cases, an increase of one since yesterday. The one additional case is a cleaner on the Queen Street construction site. They were already a primary close contact, with a few more exposure days in that infectious period so there are a couple of new exposure sites we have identified for the individual including the train trip identified late last night.

The West Melbourne outbreak, the families we talked about over the last few days, there are 14 cases, which is an increase of four cases. Three new cases are family members of a previous positive case we've discussed, and the fourth case is a child again of the previous positive case in an outbreak. All of them have been quarantining and are essentially well.

In the Arcare Maidstone facility, nine positive cases in total, an increase of three since yesterday. Two of those are staff members and are relatively new staff in that facility, one is a resident has been there for a while, a gentleman in his 70s. A small number of exposure sites for those two staff members. Again, partly because they've been operating under lockdown restrictions. Obviously on these combined outbreaks, there are an ongoing number of investigations.
So, none are "mystery" cases, which is good.
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So what are the odds we're out of lockdown by the end of the week? Anyone want to take a guess?
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I think they will keep us in lockdown until after the long weekend.
They will want to limit Melbournians travelling to regional areas.
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my daughter has a casual retail job, she got told today to get ready to work, she works at DFO docklands, shes rostered for a full day sunday, but take your own food the food hall will be shut, so retail must have an inkling of whats happening,
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I reckon out of Lockdown friday, but not completely.

There'll still be some restrictions, masks required indoors and only outdoors if you can't keep a distance, retail reopened, 10km limit gone but no travelling from Metro to Regional unless (make something up)
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Lockdown will end as presently scheduled, possibly before, if there are no new mystery cases. The 11 today were, as I understand the report, already accounted for and isolated.
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stui magpie wrote:I reckon out of Lockdown friday, but not completely.

There'll still be some restrictions, masks required indoors and only outdoors if you can't keep a distance, retail reopened, 10km limit gone but no travelling from Metro to Regional unless (make something up)
I'd take that. Hope you're right!
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Me too

And for insert reason, maybe I could book a plumber or something!

Don’t need one, but I’ll think if Something
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