Australia's Victoria state reports 5 COVID-19 cases on day 3 of lockdown

Australia's Victoria state reported five new local COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including in a worker at a Melbourne aged care facility where not all of the residents have been vaccinated.

Australia has been lagging in their immunizations, something that could be somewhat justified because their approach made the risk of infections much less important, but the important part is that this risk is never zero so events like this can keep happening. Hopefully no resident of the facility will result infected.

hopefully this will spur more vaccinations . latest research show that you'll need both shots for protection against the latest variants

yeah great, no income for a week or two with no handouts, that’s what I’m told.

Australia another laggard with its vaccination program - crack on with it, and these outbreaks will be fewer and further between.

"It is not a race, it has to be systematic,"

In a situation as it this, when you reads this kind of statement, you really don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Yeah, everone I know has had at least 1 vax others 2 and still same rules apply!! Where is the incentive, What goes through that pm’s tiny brain of his?

Pm gave no handouts, then jumped on a flight to n/z, what a top bloke.

virusrex - Australia has been lagging in their immunizations

You base this assumption on what? Anybody over 50 can get their vaccination at their local medical center. Other age groups can request a vaccination if they want one. This latest outbreak came directly from India with returning Indian/Australians. They failed to quarantine properly on their return.

One week with no wages is a small price to pay to prevent a major outbreak that could result in months of lockdowns.

The federal government has already given the biggest handouts by far to Victoria. Someone should ask why does ONLY Victoria always have these huge huge total autoritarian lockdowns that no other place in Australia has despite similar outbreaks. There contact tracing is not up to scratch and only now are they unifying their tracking apps, something done in all other states many months ago, Whilst the people are supposedly happy to go along with it all, they need to enforce them with huge penalties which I am sure the people that incur them will never pay anyhow,

Good old Melbourne. Lock us down, and kill hundreds because they can no longer get medical treatment(s) for their treatable diseases.

I digress.. Vaccine centres were empty, 68 "case free days". It had to end sometime.. Gates needs his coin after all..

Now that the 'smart people' are lining up for the experimental jab, I wonder if the chances of death by vaccination have gone up again.

Last time I looked is was 3000 times more likely that someone would die of the jab, as opposed to the virus.

Sure makes sense to race out and get it.. lol.

Anyone know the last case of covid that saw someone end up in a Melbourne hospital, let alone dead?

BoboToday  03:19 pm JST

yeah great, no income for a week or two with no handouts, that’s what I’m told

They needed this alleged outbreak, with no one being ill, so they can get another year out killing the state. The lockdown will last until the state of emergency gets renewed.. That is on the 5th of June.. How convenient.

Steve

Good old Melbourne. Lock us down, and kill hundreds because they can no longer get medical treatment(s) for their treatable diseases.

I think it is more about asserting authoritarian control in Victoria than the virus at this point. Check out how Avi Yemini was treated when he went to cover a lockdown protest there. What is up with the government in that state?

Good old Melbourne. Lock us down, and kill hundreds because they can no longer get medical treatment(s) for their treatable diseases.

You can leave home to get or give care. Getting medical treatment has not been stopped or banned.

Keep to the truth please.

I didn't know it was for protection against getting.

It is.

The word is, is that's it just so you don't get Covid so badly if/when you actually do.

That is also true.

Reading every day someone got after being vaccinated,including an NBA player.Useful.

Yes, the vaccine, while very effective at preventing getting covid, isn't 100% effective, which is what makes it awesome that it makes the virus manageable even when it does get past a vaccinated person's immune system.

P. Smith

You two just nailed the entire “pandemic.” It’s a ploy by governments to go authoritarian and Gates is going along for the money.

Amazingly insightful.

I did not say anything about the "entire pandemic" or a "ploy". I simply pointed out what it has evolved into in some places. Pls try to do without projection.