Rex Kramer wrote:Cuttooth wrote:I'm confused why that changes having to go into the six day lockdown though?
I guess because they can now trace all his contacts. Maybe they were assuming he caught the virus elsewhere as being in a shop only to collect a pizza might not be sufficient exposure to catch it.
Basically, what happened was, there was the original close contact of the hotel quarantine worker who tested positive. The close contact worked in the pizza shop.
Then another person tested positive, when quizzed by the contact tracers he told them he was at the pizza shop briefly collecting a takeaway pizza. This lead the contract tracing team to believe that the virus had been transferred to him via being on the surface of the pizza/box, our first case of local transmission. As a result they decided that due to this concern, if one person caught it off a surface, then technically any of the people that visited the pizza shop, got a delivery or got takeaway was at risk of catching the virus. This was estimated to be up to 10,000 people across the city and as such, had the potential to spread really quickly,
However, after we got a few days of no cases other than those that were close contacts to the original pizza worker, they decided to take a closer look into this supposed local transmission which they then found actually didn’t just buy a pizza, but actually worked at the pizza shop for several shifts alongside the original positive case, thus was a close contact and not a local transmission.
Therefore, the lockdown was ultimately not required as they had no other proof of surface transmission and so have moved the end of the lockdown to tomorrow midnight to enable them to contract trace the people that will now be implicated because of the lier. We were however allowed to exercise outdoors straight away
They acted completely in good faith with the lockdown, but the press (as expected) are going in on them heavily.
The sad thing is, there is currently nothing in the legislation that allows them to charge the lier with anything criminal and so is likely to get off. The police commissioner and premier are understandably livid though and have set up an inquiry to to see if there is anyway they can charge him.
It’s also since come out that it’s a teenager, who was likely working cash in hand and hence didn’t tell the truth in the first place.
