1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Welcome to another week of the Daily Ods. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: My name is Sam Kozlowski and joining me is the 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,719 Speaker 1: co founder of the Daily os Zara sideler Zara. It 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: was a weekend for us of watching a heap of 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: press conferences. Why don't we start with COVID and then 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: let's do a deep dive into this announcement from premise 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: of Scott Morrison yesterday about new phisidosis arriving in Australia. 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: Take us through some COVID views. 9 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 2: So, as you said, it was a big weekend of 10 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: press conferences, predominantly in New South Wales, where we saw 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: record numbers over the weekend. New South Wales yesterday recorded 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 2: four hundred and fifteen locally acquired cases. That was a 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 2: drop from the previous day, but obviously still not good numbers. 14 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: Forty two of those cases were infectious in the community 15 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: and several hundred remained under investigation. There were also four 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: deaths announced the day before. On Saturday. The remainder of 17 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: New South Wales was also plunged into lockdown at five 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 2: pm and this was an interesting one because it was 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,959 Speaker 2: announced after the eleven am press conference and a whole 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 2: lot of state MPs started tweeting about it, but we 21 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: didn't actually get word for several hours, and again that 22 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 2: came from New South Wales Health's Twitter page and not 23 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: an official announcement. Meanwhile, in Victoria, there were twenty five 24 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: locally acquired cases of COVID nineteen yesterday. Twenty one of 25 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: those were linked to a known cluster and to our 26 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: third place in Australia to be under lockdown. The ACT 27 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 2: recorded just two locally acquired cases yesterday, with one of 28 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 2: them being a close contact of an existing case and 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 2: the other being unlinked. 30 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: The Haitian government declared a state of emergency after a 31 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: seven point two magnitude earthquake hit the country over the weekend. Now, 32 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: if you want to read this information slowly, we've put 33 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: a post up on our Instagram feed that takes you 34 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: through it. But in brief at least three hundred and 35 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: four people have died as a result of the earthquake 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: and over eighteen hundred people were left injured. Several aftershocks 37 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: were reported after the initial earthquake, and those are set 38 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: to continue in the coming days. 39 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: This comes just weeks after the Haitian president was assassinated, 40 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 2: so they're just to be bad news, left, right and 41 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 2: center and Haiti at the moment. Now over to Turkey, 42 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 2: the deaththold from severe flooding in the country has risen 43 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 2: to fifty seven over the weekend. Torrential rain hit the 44 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 2: nation on Wednesday last week, causing flooding that damaged homes, 45 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 2: swept away cars, and severed multiple bridges. A Turkish resident 46 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: spoke to media and said this is unprecedented. There's no power, 47 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 2: the mobile phones are dead, there's no reception. You just 48 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: can't receive news from anyone. 49 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: And to today's good news and I think we all 50 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: need it today. India will ban the manufacture, sale, and 51 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: use of certain single use plastics from July one, twenty 52 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: twenty two. These items include plates, cups, straws, trays and polystyrene. 53 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,679 Speaker 1: The thickness of plastic Harry bags will be increased from 54 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: fifty microns to seventy five microns this coming September, and 55 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: this will allow the bags to be reused. 56 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: There is hope, indeed, there's a million, more than a 57 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 3: million doses of hope. On a earlier today, a plane 58 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 3: left Dubai having left Warsaw last night. We have been 59 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 3: in discussions with the Polish government now for several weeks 60 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 3: and we have secured an additional just over one million 61 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 3: doses of Pfizer and they'll start landing in Australia from tonight. 62 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 2: So that was Scott Morrison. Yesterday he called a Sunday 63 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 2: press conference which alerted everybody to the fact that there 64 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 2: was big news happening. This doesn't usually happen on the weekend, 65 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: and that big news was that we are getting more PISA. 66 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: It's been the talk of the town for many, many 67 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: months and yesterday the Prime Minister announced that we had 68 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: secured an extra million Piser doses from Poland. 69 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: Doctor Chant echoed at the press conference yesterday how happy 70 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: she was that half the doses are going to New 71 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: South Wales. So there's five hundred thousand doses, the majority 72 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: of which are going to young people in southwestern and 73 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: Western Sydney. Now these doses were manufactured in Belgium and 74 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: they were bought by Poland. And Poland had a surplus 75 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: to their requirements and they sold an extra million doses 76 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: to Australia on a nonprofit basis. 77 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: It is really interesting when you compare the differences between 78 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: US and Poland. So Poland seemingly has zero supply issues. 79 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: They have a surplus, but what they do have is 80 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 2: a major issue with vaccine hesitancy. So they vaccinated as 81 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: many people that they think they will get done during 82 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 2: this time and so they've sold us the surplus of vaccines. 83 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 2: That's of course very different to what is happening here, 84 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 2: which is that a lot of people want to get 85 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 2: vaccinated but can't. 86 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: A tool available to the government that comes up a 87 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: lot in discussions about vaccines, but most importantly about supply 88 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: of vaccines, is the Doughty Institute Modeling. Now, the Doughty 89 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: Institute is basically a peak research body that's consulting the 90 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: government on the best way to roll out the vaccine 91 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: across Australia. It's the Doughity Institute that said that the 92 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: best place to put these vaccines would be half to 93 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: Western Sydney for that twenty to thirty nine age brackets. 94 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 1: So that was the theory that Prime Minister Morrison was 95 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: relying on when it explaining how the doses would be 96 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: rolled out across the country from there. 97 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 2: It's understood that the risk profile currently in the hotspot 98 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: lga's in Sydney meant that the majority of those vaccines 99 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: would be sent there. That didn't stop a lot of 100 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 2: Melbournians and Victorians getting pretty annoyed about the move. We 101 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: had a lot of comments on our post about this, saying, 102 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: you know, of course that Victorians had been in and 103 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 2: out of lockdowns longer than anyone else had, and why 104 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 2: were vaccines not being sent. Premier Andrews addressed this in 105 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 2: yesterday's press conference and here's what he said about it. 106 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 4: The fact of the matter is the greatest need is 107 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 4: in Sydney. I've always been a supporter of those who 108 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 4: were in the greatest need getting the greatest amount of support. 109 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 4: You know, we could have a long debate about why 110 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 4: Sydney's in the position that's in. You know, I'm not 111 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 4: going to do that. I'm not going to offer up 112 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 4: that sort of commentary. We had plenty of people giving 113 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 4: us the benefit of their wisdom so called last year, 114 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 4: and Victorians were thoroughly sick of it by the end 115 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 4: of last year. So I'm not going to contribute to that. 116 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 4: All I'll say is that they have to be given 117 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 4: more vaccine in New South Wales because nothing else they're 118 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: doing is working. This is where they're at now they're 119 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 4: going to have to vaccinate their way out of this. 120 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: Of course, the new vaccines from Poland are extremely welcome, 121 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 2: but it does highlight the fact that till now Australia 122 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: has had a significant supply problem. A big part of 123 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 2: this has been because most of our supply deals were 124 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 2: for astrosenica, so the government basically hedged its bets and 125 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 2: got a whole lot of astrosenica. When the health advice 126 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 2: changed around astrosenica and a target advised that certain cohorts 127 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 2: shouldn't be getting it, we then realized that there was 128 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 2: a major problem. There wasn't enough visa to inoculate the 129 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 2: majority of the country. 130 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,119 Speaker 1: Something I've noticed over the last twenty four to thirty 131 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: six hours since this announcement was made was an interesting 132 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: tension between people now perhaps waiting for a Pfizer vas 133 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 1: ahead of a potentially available astrosenica vaccine that you can 134 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: get after a consultation with your GP if you're part 135 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: of the eligible population. It's important to note that even 136 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: though these vaccines arrived last night on a plane from 137 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: Warsaw via Dubai, that the rollout itself might be a 138 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: little slower, and that young people are still recommended to 139 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: consult with a GP about astrosennika and whether that's an 140 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: appropriate vaccine for them. 141 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: On that note, if you have been vaxed, let us know. 142 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 2: We want to hear about it. We get very excited 143 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: when we know we are one step closer to freedom 144 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 2: here in New South Wales. But of course across the country, 145 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 2: hot VAC summer exactly, hot VAC summer, as all the 146 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 2: cool kids say, we're going to wrap it up there. 147 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 2: But there is more than enough COVID news today to 148 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: keep you going. If you want to keep up to date, 149 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: please follow us on Instagram at the Daily OS. It's 150 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: where over one hundred and seventy five thousand young ossies 151 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: get their news every day and we would love to 152 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: welcome you to our community. Have a wonderful day.