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Speaker 1: But we know that overnight some pretty strict measures were

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Speaker 1: put in place for a few streets in Catherine to

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Speaker 1: try to minimize the spread of COVID nineteen. Now joining

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Speaker 1: me on the line is the Mayor of Catherine, Liz Clark.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Liz, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie. How are you today?

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Speaker 1: Very well now, Liz, Obviously earlier in the week, we

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Speaker 1: were all feeling quite positive for you guys in Catherine,

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Speaker 1: thinking this is wonderful you're opening back up and with

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Speaker 1: limited restrictions or with no restrictions after what's been a

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Speaker 1: pretty tumultuous month. Liz, talk us through what happened late

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Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: We just had a few calls from people asking counsel

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Speaker 2: why they were block of blocking off areas. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we because apparently I know that yesterday they were looking

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Speaker 2: going house to house. They're looking for another COVID case

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Speaker 2: that part of the cluster that they hadn't found yet,

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Speaker 2: and so they've decided to block off the road, the road,

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Speaker 2: you know, two of the roads around around Catherine East

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Speaker 2: to see if they could find these people.

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Speaker 1: And Liz, what's the update this morning? Are those roads

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Speaker 1: still blocked at the moment or how's it all sort

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Speaker 1: of tracking?

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Speaker 2: They will be blocked until Sunday. There's they've found another

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Speaker 2: I believe another five cases overnight. They're there, but this

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Speaker 2: roadblock is up until Sunday. The people that are caught

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Speaker 2: in that area will be given food packages. Yeah. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's that's all I know about it at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Katie, Yeah, well, which is fair enough. But so they

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Speaker 1: believe that there is another five cases. I know that

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Speaker 1: it's Malaluka Road, Hudspur's Place, Frangi Honey Court and Acasha Drive,

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Speaker 1: and Liza said that there are food parcels and things

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Speaker 1: like that being delivered to the residents in those streets.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they will be you know, essential people. Essential people

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Speaker 2: will be allowed to leave the area, but only Yeah,

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Speaker 2: only if you're essential that you really have to go.

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Speaker 2: But it's yeah, it was. It was either that or

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Speaker 2: I'd imagine they didn't want to close down the whole town.

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Speaker 1: Again, which is fair enough. Liz, what's to give us

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Speaker 1: or to paint us a bit of a picture, I

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Speaker 1: suppose how many people? Do you know how many people

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Speaker 1: actually sort of live in that area?

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Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure how many there's that there are

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Speaker 2: a few, I mean, but only not the whole of

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Speaker 2: Maluca Road. It's sort of part of Maluka Road at

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Speaker 2: the turn off just before Grevillia, and not all of Acacia.

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Speaker 2: It's stopped so like further down, so you can still

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Speaker 2: go around, you know, you just have to go along

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Speaker 2: a way to get around to the school, to the

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Speaker 2: high school and so forth. But yeah, there are quite

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Speaker 2: a few houses in that area.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Li's what's the feeling around Catherine this morning in

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Speaker 1: light of what's gone on in the last sort of

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Speaker 1: twelve hours or so.

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Speaker 2: I think I think people are well again because they

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Speaker 2: didn't have to shut the whole town down. I think

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Speaker 2: it's the relief in that sense, you know. But I

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Speaker 2: do feel for the residents that are in the in

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Speaker 2: the you know, they're in that lockdown. It would be

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Speaker 2: hard for them because I think they were taken by surprise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I bet and you know, I know even

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Speaker 1: yesterday obviously the Chief Minister had mentioned it throughout that

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Speaker 1: press conference, but I don't think anybody was sort of

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Speaker 1: anticipating that it was going to be this street.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so either. Yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 2: going I think it's in the same vein as as

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Speaker 2: what they've done is Binjari and rockhol where you know

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Speaker 2: that you can't leave unless you are essential.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Liz Clark, the Mayor of Catherine, we will

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Speaker 1: leave it there. Really appreciate your time this morning, and

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Speaker 1: really appreciate the time you've given us over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much for having me, Katie, and

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Speaker 2: you have a wonderful day you too. Thank you