Coronavirus Part III - 9 cases across the Island - 503 errors abound!! *read OP*

blanch152 wrote: »

Stupid politician makes stupid political statement, yet you blame a poster for politicising this?

Have to say that while there is a little bit more specific information in the Dutch cases, it isn't really that different to the Irish situation. No names of schools, no names of workplaces, information that a hospital is closed so that people won't go there. The information on locality is more detailed, but that is only a matter of degree.

The type of information being sought on social media in Ireland - flight numbers, bus journeys, train journeys, schools, names - is not being given out by the Dutch either.

Authorities are scrambling to track down passengers who were on a plane which arrived in Melbourne from Malaysia and Bali on Friday morning after a Victorian woman on board tested positive for coronavirus.
a Victorian woman on board a Malindo Air flight has tested positive for coronavirus.

a Victorian woman on board a Malindo Air flight has tested positive for coronavirus.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said Monday that authorities were racing to contact people who travelled on Malindo Air flight OD177 from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne via Denpasar.

Dr Sutton warned, however, the process of tracing each individual passenger could take days and urged all people on board the flight to make contact with authorities themselves.

The delay means some passengers may be unaware they are at risk of having the virus and unwittingly roaming around the city.

The flight arrived at Tullamarine just after 6am on Friday, February 28.

Dr Sutton said the state's health department had asked the federal government for a breakdown of the number of passengers on board the flight and that request had been forwarded to Malindo Air and border control.

"From a state point of view, obviously, we want that information immediately," Dr Sutton said.

"This process usually takes a few days. That's why we put those details out about the flight so if anyone is on board the flight they can make contact with us immediately and we can give them details on what they need to do and what they need to look out for."

The state's Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the woman landed in Melbourne from Iran after travelling from Tehran via Kuala Lumpur and Bali.

The woman aged in her 30s is Victoria's ninth confirmed coronavirus case. She started feeling unwell while travelling to Melbourne.

"The Commonwealth is working on trying to streamline that process as best as they possibly can, but they have to work with individual airlines and their own IT systems and their data information gathering to ensure that is as official as possible," Dr Sutton said.

Dr Sutton said authorities were particularly keen to speak with passengers sitting within two rows of the infected woman, adding that those passengers would need to be quarantined in their homes for a period 14 days.

"The primary transmission is droplets, so that means immediate vicinity, within a few metres from the patient," Dr Sutton said.

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All passengers on board the flight are urged to be on alert for symptomns including a fever, cough, runny nose or shortness of breath and seek medical help if they suspect they have contracted the virus.

synesthesia wrote: »

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Racial assumptions too don't forget


Regardless, I am actually very glad that it won't.


Have a good day sir/madam!

ChikiChiki wrote: »

But according to the HSE its low.

The lack of alignment is baffling. Seems we are governed by Europe when it suits

MarkY91 wrote: »

One thing I'm certain of...reeling in the years 2020 is going to be s cracking watch..

seamus wrote: »

Trust also erodes when people think their right to privacy will not be respected.

Imagine that you present today to your GP. He suspects coronavirus, you get tested and confirmed.

So they ring your workplace and tell them you've got coronavirus. Then they publish the name of your workplace and the fact that a case has been discovered there.

Only problem is, your workplace is a secretary and two solicitors. And you're the secretary. Think about the impact of that, and how many people now know that YOU have coronavirus. People you didn't tell, people you don't really know. Idiots who will take their business elsewhere, because infection, or something. People who will tell their kids to stop playing with your kids, who will give you weird looks in the supermarket in six months time.

Now imagine you're not the poor bastard who's been outed on the national news.

You're an onlooker, working in a similarly small business or similarly small town. You've been feeling a bit poorly.

Do you think the actions of the HSE are going to encourage you to come forward for testing? Or are you more likely to wait it out and see what happens?

I appreciate that the name of the school may not be immediately private information, but people are well able to put two & two together. And as we can see from this thread, are well able to panic - "I walked past that school 3 weeks ago! OMFFFGGGGG!!!!".

By not releasing the information publically, the HSE are maintaining a basic pillar of any health system - trust that your privacy is of the utmost importance unless there is a massively compelling reason to breach it.

synesthesia wrote: »

iguana wrote: »

For closed cases, ie those who have recovered or died, the mortality rate is 6%. This figure is slowly falling, because it includes figures from the earliest weeks of the virus when what was being dealt with was not just unknown but being covered up. So hopefully it will continue to fall but as it stands, this virus has a 6% mortality rate, which really is quite serious.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/