Indeed, you only have to read my post I just made to see how many tests are being done.
That’s an active cases drop of 18,657, a good improvement on yesterday’s drop.
As of last Wednesday it was standing between 0.6 and 0.9, next week will be the 3rd week of schools opened which is also the point where they will have enough data to decide if things can progress forward for the next two weeks before the next stage of openings
Yep. The number of daily cases is a pretty poor figure to focus on at the best of times as it is almost wholly dependant on how many tests are able to be performed in a single day, but now more than ever it is one of the last figures we should concern ourselves with.
Those dates were the earliest they could unlock from IF a series of indicators were suggesting substantial progress. But on vaccine roll out we are now in a different situation (the pause has effectively de-railed the road map), and we haven't seen the number admitted to hospital with Covid19 under control yet (the fall has plateaued and as many as there were in October are being admitted).
Haha. Can't say I'm surprised with your opinion on this. Should we push reopening back until 2024?
Push it back to when it's safe to.
The most vulnerable in the country have been vaccinated, its safe to now.
You need to factor in the number of tests that have been carried out over the last 10 days since the kids went back to school. Something like an extra 700k/800k per day. I saw this morning that 12000 children have so far tested positive. These would almost certainly have been asymptomatic and represent on average around 1300/1400 per day that would not have been captured under previous testing policy. These children, and many who have come into contact with them, are now self isolating, whereas previously they would be spreading the disease unknowingly.
Has your head fallen off yet?
No Dave. There are around 750k tests per day now being carried out in schools. So far there have been 12000 positive tests. which is about 1300 per day. These would most certainly have been asymptomatic, and whereas before they would have been running amok spreading the disease, they are now under lock and key along with people they have come into contact with, thus supressing the disease rather than spreading it.