Australia - 2019-nCov Daily cases exceed 10,000 and hundreds told positive covid results were negative by NSW laboratory

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/national/co...6-6fb008e3f639
Coronavirus: Six more Aussies test positive in NSW
By AAP
6:51am Mar 4, 2020
Coronavirus: Australian cases rapidly increasing

Six more people have tested positive to the coronavirus in NSW, bringing the total number of those infected in the state to 15 since the outbreak began.
NSW Health is alerting passengers who were on five separate flights from Asia in the past week after two men in their 30s, a man in his 50s and two women in their 60s tested positive following their arrival in NSW.
The men in their 30s travelled from Iran, the two women flew from Japan and South Korea respectively, and the man in his 50s was returning from Singapore.
Meanwhile a woman in her 50s who hasn't been out of Australia recently has also tested positive to the coronavirus.
And health authorities are advising passengers who sat near a coronavirus-infected woman on a Dubai-to-Sydney flight to immediately isolate themselves at home...

[mscox]

I now know one of the first degree contacts of one of the recently confirmed cases here in NSW. I can also confirm that our government is not performing proper contact tracing or advising appropriate quarantine procedures for those potentially exposed.

This is especially true, in this case, where Ambulance NSW employees would routinely arrive at the medical facility and utilised the same shared toilet facilities that the infected doctor used, before departing to have potentially further contacts with the general public. None of this is being identified or traced. Only patients are being traced!

We are not organised and we are not efficient ..., yet. Hopefully this will improve quickly, but right now I am sure that person to person spread is happening unabated in Australia.

(Update, as I was typing, Shiloh posted the above which identifies the case at Ryde. Staff have been notified but they haven't been quarantined and despite recommendations to wear masks earlier in the day, they were requested to "stop wearing them, as it was scaring patients" later).

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/fast...03-p546g5.html

Fast-moving situation': NSW confirms more cases of COVID-19, hospital staff quarantined
By Rachel Clun and Kate Aubusson
Updated March 3, 2020 — 6.21pmfirst published at 3.21pm

Multiple patients and staff at Ryde Hospital have been quarantined after coming into contact with a doctor diagnosed with COVID-19 as the number of cases in NSW jumps to 13 and more expected overnight.

Hospital emergency departments across the state are bracing for a deluge of patients, with health authorities predicting coronavirus outbreaks will converge with an early and severe flu season...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/news/healt...v-health-alert

As at 06:30 hrs on 3 March 2020, we have 33 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia.

• 15 of the initially reported cases in Australia all had a direct or indirect travel history to Wuhan, China
• 10 cases are associated with the Diamond Princess repatriation flight from Japan. All of these people have returned to their home states for medical care
• 7 cases are reported to have had a direct or indirect travel history to Iran
• 1 case reported in a health care worker did not have a history of travel to any high risk countries in recent weeks

Of the total cases reported, 21 of these cases are reported to have recovered. 1 person has sadly died. The remaining cases are in a stable condition.

For questions about testing or the welfare of people with the virus, contact your state or territory health authority.

[Shiloh]

Source: https://7news.com.au/news/disaster-a...n-qld-c-726770


Tenth coronavirus case confirmed in Qld
Nicholas McElroy and Darren Cartwright
AAP
Monday, 2 March 2020 7:55 pm

A tenth Queensland coronavirus case has been confirmed by state health authorities.

A 20-year-old man from China has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

The man, who had travelled to Dubai for at least two weeks before entering Australia, is in a stable condition in isolation in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.

He was living in the Brisbane suburb of Toowong with a male housemate, who is now being assessed for the disease.

There are reports the man may be a university student, but authorities are yet to confirm this.

Meanwhile, a student accommodation business told AAP Chinese students are bypassing the China travel ban by spending two weeks in other countries before entering Australia...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.miragenews.com/nine-case...firmed-in-nsw/


March 3, 2020 8:16 am AEDT
Nine cases of COVID-19 confirmed in NSW

NSW Health now has nine confirmed cases since the outbreak of COVID-19 began,with three new cases confirmed yesterday by Health Minister Brad Hazzard andChief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant.

Dr Chant urged people to ensure they are aware of the symptoms of COVID-19 and seek immediate health assessment if symptoms develop, if they have returned fromcountries at risk including mainland China, Iran, Italy, South Korea, Japan,Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Cambodia.

“One case recently travelled from Iran, and one was in close contact with anothercase who had travelled from Iran. The third case hadn’t travelled internationally inrecent weeks,” Dr Chant said.

The first new case, an adult male in his 30s, has been diagnosed with COVID-19following recent travel from Iran. The man has had relatively mild symptoms, afterarriving in Sydney from Iran via Malaysia on Saturday (29 February 2020). Hedeveloped symptoms and was tested at a local hospital.

He is being isolated in hospital after test results confirmed a positive result forCOVID-19

The second new case, a woman in her 40s, is a close relative of the fifth confirmedcase, a man who recently returned from Iran. She had been awaiting test results inhospital isolation.

The third new case is a man in his 50s. The man, a health care worker, is currentlybeing treated in Sydney’s Westmead Hospital and was tested after developingrespiratory symptoms. He has not travelled to any high risk countries in recentweeks.

This health care worker was not treating patients at Westmead as incorrectlyreported by some media outlets...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...80bdb1f9f7d48e



Ninth Victorian case of coronavirus confirmed by health officials
Grant McArthur, Ashley Argoon and Sharon McGowan, Herald Sun
March 2, 2020 1:09pm

Passengers who sat near a coronavirus-infected woman on a flight to Melbourne may not be contacted with health concerns for several more days.

Delays in the processing of a flight manifests between federal and state departments mean Victorian health authorities still do not know the identity of dozens of people who may have been in close contact with an infected woman.

The woman, in her 30s, has been confirmed as Melbourne’s ninth coronavirus patient after flying into the airport on Friday.

She recently returned home from Tehran in Iran and was on flight Malindo Air OD177 from Kuala Lumpur to Denpasar then Melbourne, arriving at 6.04am on Friday, February 28...

...Until the flight manifest is obtained, Victorian health authorities are urging anybody who travelled on Malindo Air on flight number OD177 and landed in Melbourne on 28 February at 6.04am to contact them for further guidance.

Hospital staff considered the woman clinically well enough to be discharged, and she is now isolated at home, health minister Jenny Mikakos confirmed...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/news/healt...v-health-alert Current status

In Australia

As at 06:30 hrs on 2 March 2020, we have 29 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia:

• 9 in Queensland
• 6 in New South Wales
• 9 in Victoria
• 3 in South Australia
• 2 in Western Australia

15 of these cases are reported to have recovered. The remaining cases are in a stable condition.

10 cases are associated with the Diamond Princess repatriation flight from Japan.

All of these people have returned to their home states for medical treatment.

1 of these people has sadly died.

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.miragenews.com/sixth-cov...rns-from-iran/

March 1, 2020 9:26 pm AEDT
Sixth COVID-19 case after woman returns from Iran

NSW Health has confirmed a sixth case of COVID-19 in a woman who recently returned from Iran and is urging anyone who may have been on the same flight to seek immediate health assessment if symptoms develop within 14 days.

The woman in her 50s had been in Iran and flew back to Sydney via Qatar, arriving on Sunday 23 February on Qatar Airways Flight QR 908. She developed symptoms the following day, and was tested for COVID on 29 February after presenting to a hospital emergency department.

Anyone on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Qatar to Sydney that was scheduled to arrive at 6.45pm on Sunday 23 February should be on the alert for symptoms of COVID-19, which include fever, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath. If symptoms develop, people who were on that flight should isolate themselves straight away and contact their GP or local emergency department.

This latest case is not linked to, and was not on the same flight, as the fifth confirmed case who has also returned from Iran but on a different day...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...7181100aa87b39

Australia’s first coronavirus fatality as man dies in Perth
The first Australian death from the lethal coronavirus outbreak has been confirmed, after a man died in a Perth hospital overnight.
Candace Sutton
news.com.auMarch 1, 20201:26pm

Australia has recorded its first coronavirus fatality after a man confirmed as COVID-19 positive died in a Perth hospital overnight.

The as yet unnamed coronavirus victim was a 78-year-old from the infected cruise ship Diamond Princess who died in the early hours of Sunday morning at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

He had been taken from a Darwin quarantine camp with his wife, who is also infected, after being isolated in a quarantine camp there from Japan.

The couple were two of 164 Australians who were quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess with coronavirus then flown from Japan to Darwin and placed in isolation at the Howards Springs camp.

The dead man’s wife is now in isolation at a Perth hospital...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/health/fift...8-7db5a7293f4f

Fifth virus case in NSW after Iran travel
By AAP
9:43am Mar 1, 2020

A man who recently travelled to Iran has become the fifth person in NSW to be diagnosed with the coronavirus.
The male in his 40s arrived in Sydney from Iran on February 22 and didn't develop symptoms of COVID-19 until two days later.
He was tested on February 28 and was confirmed to have COVID-19 on Saturday, NSW Health said in a statement on Sunday.
The man has relatively minor symptoms and has been taken to Westmead Hospital...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/national/co...d-10132bac7e7f

Gold Coast beautician in isolation after contracting coronavirus
By Nick Pearson
1:58pm Feb 29, 2020

A 63-year-old beautician on the Gold Coast is in isolation after testing positive to the coronavirus COVID-19.

The woman began feeling unwell at work on Thursday after returning from Iran, where the disease has reached epidemic levels.

She is currently being treated at the Gold Coast University Hospital...

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/news/healt...v-health-alert Current status

In Australia

As at 06:30 hrs on 29 February 2020, we have 25 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia:

• 9 in Queensland
• 4 in New South Wales
• 7 in Victoria
• 3 in South Australia
• 2 in Western Australia

15 of these cases are reported to have recovered. The remaining cases are in a stable condition.

9 cases are associated with the Diamond Princess repatriation flight from Japan.

All of these people have returned to their home states for medical treatment.

For questions about testing or the welfare of people with the virus, contact your state or territory health authority.

[Commonground]

As at 22:00 hrs on 22 February 2020, we have confirmed 22 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia:

• 5 in Queensland
• 4 in New South Wales
• 4 in Victoria
• 2 in South Australia

There are also 7 cases associated with the Diamond Princess repatriation flight from Japan.

• 1 is a resident of Western Australia
• 1 is a resident of South Australia
• 3 are residents of Queensland
• 2 are residents of Victoria.

10 of the earlier cases are reported to have recovered.

For questions about testing or the welfare of people with the virus, contact your state or territory health authority.

For more information, read latest transcripts and media releases from the Chief Medical Officer about coronavirus (COVID-19) in the news section of our website.

https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert

[sharon sanders]

In Australia

As at 11:30 hrs on 22 February 2020, we have confirmed 21 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia:

• 5 in Queensland
• 4 in New South Wales
• 4 in Victoria
• 2 in South Australia

There are also 6 cases associated with the Diamond Princess repatriation flight from Japan.

• 1 is a resident of Western Australia
• 1 is a resident of South Australia
• 2 are residents of Queensland
• 2 are residents of Victoria

The people from Western Australia and South Australia with confirmed cases returned to their home state on 21 February 2020. The people from Queensland and Victoria with confirmed cases will return to their home states today.

10 of the earlier cases are reported to have recovered.

For questions about testing or the welfare of people with the virus, contact your state or territory health authority.

For more information, read latest transcripts and media releases from the Chief Medical Officer about coronavirus (COVID-19) in the news section of our website.

https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert#current-status