Settle down! It's only Melbadishu - like India and certain parts of Africa it needs a little thinning out. Once the herd has stabilised around the resistant genetic variations, Melbadishu will prosper again.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/all-of-victoria-plunged-into-snap-lockdown-011827821.h..."The entire state of Victoria will be plunged into a lockdown from midnight as the state government frantically tries to curtail the spread of its alarming Covid-19 outbreak.
Acting Premier James Merlino announced the Stage Three restrictions will last for seven days.
"Unless something changes, this will be increasingly uncontrollable," he told reporters.
Earlier on Thursday, the Department of Health announced 11 further local cases, taking the outbreak's total to 26.
Residents will only be allowed to leave their homes for five essential reasons, those being work or education, essential shopping, two-hour exercise, medical treatment or assistance and to get vaccinated.
Shopping and exercise can only take place five kilometres from a resident’s home while pubs, cafes and restaurants will only be allowed to provide takeaway services.
Visits to aged care and health facilities will be prohibited unless meeting the exemption criteria.
Masks will now be compulsory as outside as well as in public indoor locations.
Childcare and kinder will stay open, but schools will close.
Visitors to homes are not allowed unless intimate partners.
Mr Merlino said the state's public health experts' "primary concern is how fast this variant is moving".
"We've seen more evidence we're dealing with a highly infectious strain of the virus, a variant of concern, which is running faster than we have ever recorded," he said.
He said the speed at which the virus was being contracted and passed on was now far quicker, with the onset of symptoms now between one to two days as opposed to about five days previously.
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the strain, which is the Indian B1617 variant, "really is rapid and that's led to the exponential increase".
Mr Merlino said more than 10,000 primary and secondary contacts have been identified alongside more than 150 exposure sites which stretch from the NSW border to the Mornington Peninsula.
All contacts are required to isolate.
He confirmed the 11 new cases were linked to previous cases. One of the cases is in ICU and requires a ventilator.
Genomic sequencing shows the outbreak is linked to the case of a Wollert man, with an official SA report on Wednesday suggesting he caught the virus from aerosol transmission in an Adelaide quarantine hotel.
But a definitive link between the Wollert man and the Whittlesea outbreak has not been established."
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