1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: And joining me on the line is Joe Hersey, the 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: member for Catherine. Good morning to you, Joe, Good. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: Morning Katie, and good morning listeners. Joe. 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: How are things going this morning? What's the feeling in Catherine? 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 2: Well, there's been an overwhelming amount of people heading to 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 2: the testing site, which has been good. Yesterday they did 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: at the Second Street site. They did over three hundred 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: tests at the walking clinic. Now, I just must clarify 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: for people in Catherine this is advertised as a walking clinic. However, 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: as opposed to the drive in one at the hospital, 11 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 2: you still must make an appointment. I did find that 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: out yesterday when I went to make an appointment for 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: a test. So you must book online through the Coronavirus 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 2: website and then you get an appointment and go there 15 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 2: at your at your time. 16 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:53,639 Speaker 3: Joe. 17 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: Is that a bit of a bit confusing for people? 18 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: So do you need to make an appointment at either 19 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: of the at both of those testing sites at the 20 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: Catherine Hospital and also the other one, or can you 21 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: walk into one of them? 22 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,559 Speaker 2: My understanding is you must make an appointment. Yeah, Katie. 23 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 2: The communication rollout has been confusing right from the start 24 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: and clunky at best. And we've had over twelve months 25 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 2: to get ready for this and it seems the government's 26 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: been caught off guard. But the Walking Clinic, I can 27 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 2: certainly confirm with people in Catherine it is not walk in. 28 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 2: Do not go there and expect to walk in and 29 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 2: get an appointment. You must make an appointment online and 30 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 2: then go at your allocated time. 31 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: Jo you said that there was over three hundred at 32 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: that walking clinic, which you can't actually walk into. You've 33 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: got to make an appointment for any idea how many 34 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: people were tested in total yesterday. 35 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: No, I don't have that information, Katie. And the only 36 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: reason I have that number is when I went there yesterday. 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: I spoke to the people on the at the clinic 38 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: and they told me those numbers. But we have another 39 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 2: testing site being set up today in Catherine East, but 40 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: they are certainly there's My understanding is there's twelve people 41 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 2: coming down from Darwin today to help out with the testing. 42 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: But they definitely are under resourced and there's not enough 43 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: supplies for the testing. Is my information that I've been given, Well, well, 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 2: I think that that is a concern. It is I'm 45 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 2: given that, you know, lots of people need to get 46 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 2: testing done. And it is concerning because if we've known 47 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 2: this was going to be coming, surely some scenarios would 48 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: have been run through with the with the government. You know, 49 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 2: in this situation, this is what we're going to do. 50 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 2: Another major concern around town is to my the testing 51 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 2: needs to be done going into remote community and people 52 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: are still wondering, well, there's no rapid energen testing that 53 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: you can get in town. If you did have a 54 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 2: rapid energen test, PREW, do you give that result too? 55 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 2: So that is a major concern for companies going out 56 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 2: that are delivering a good and essential and last stating 57 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 2: services out in these community. 58 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: Jo what kind of you know, how is that actually 59 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: making people feel at this point, because I've no doubt 60 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: that a lot of you are on tender hooks wondering 61 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: if you're on the verge of a further outbreak, and 62 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: the fact that then some are not able to actually 63 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: go in and get tested must be a worry. 64 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 2: It is extremely concerning for people in town. There's a 65 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: lot of chatter about, you know, more more cases that 66 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 2: we know. We're just kind of bracing ourselves waiting for 67 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 2: what will today bring, and no one really knows until 68 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 2: the Chief Minister comes out with his press release, But 69 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 2: it is concerning town's pretty quiet. There's been a little 70 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: bit of confusion, confusion around who's essential and who's not, so, 71 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of scenarios of us think 72 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: could have been tested out and the communication to the 73 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 2: community could have been a lot better. 74 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: Now, Joe, we caught up with the owner of Kirby's 75 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: Pub yesterday and spoke about the check in situation. 76 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 3: Take a listen to what she had to say. 77 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: Do you have any idea, you know, how many people 78 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: have come into contact with this person or anything at 79 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: this point in time. 80 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 4: I was still getting a request as of this morning 81 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 4: for the manual entry registers, which were sent through to 82 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 4: them on the very same day. So I think there 83 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,239 Speaker 4: is a level of concern from us that they don't 84 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 4: even actually understand who was in here yet other than 85 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 4: our staff, which we've provided their details, But they know 86 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 4: for a fact that they were here, but I don't 87 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 4: think they have an exact time period of when they 88 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 4: were here. So it's a quite quite a wide net 89 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 4: anybody that knows that they were here between the you know, 90 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 4: the ten and six on the Wednesday and the twelve 91 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 4: and four to thirty on the Friday for. 92 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: You guys, has has everyone been checking in? 93 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 4: Yeah, look, we have no constam with that. We've always 94 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 4: been really strict on it. Obviously we're dealing with predominantly 95 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 4: indigenous clientele and you know, a lot of these people, 96 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 4: to be honest with you, don't have phones or physical addresses. 97 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: That was Cassie Harney obviously from Kirby's Pub yesterday. Joe, 98 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: is it a worry that for some of the people 99 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: that have been into the pub, some of those that 100 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: have attended different exposure sites or exposure sites that are 101 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: now listed on the coronavirus website, that some of them 102 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: may be quite difficult to get in contact with. 103 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Katie, the people that are you know, I do so. 104 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 2: Obviously these people have checked in. Their details maybe cannot 105 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 2: be read, so, you know, finding out who those peoples were, 106 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 2: or who they were and where they actually have gone 107 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,239 Speaker 2: to afterwards is a concerned. Potentially some of these people 108 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 2: could have gone out as far as kal Karinji La Jamanu. 109 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: They could have actually been in for the weekend and 110 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,799 Speaker 2: gone out. We had a rugby game here on the weekend, 111 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 2: so I know there was you know, people from the 112 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 2: Barklay that came in to town and from stations out 113 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 2: that way for the rugby game, so you know, potentially 114 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 2: did they go to Kirby's after the rugby game. There's 115 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 2: a lot of if some concerns over who was there, 116 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 2: and you know, at least you know they've checked in, 117 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: you'll be able to find them. But it's a slow process. 118 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: It certainly sounds like it, and I think that, you know, 119 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: the really pivotal thing at this point in time is 120 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 1: ensuring that everybody gets tested, which we know there's further 121 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: worry about Joe. 122 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 3: For those listening in. 123 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: Catherine this morning, where can they go to get tested? 124 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: If they're listening thinking all right, we've heard that there's 125 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: going to be twelve people coming from Darwin to assist 126 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: with that testing. At this point, from what you know 127 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: as the local member, where can people go to get tested? 128 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 2: So the two definite sites are on the corner of 129 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: Giles Street and Second Street, which is in the old 130 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 2: Gorge Shelf building, and at the hospital at the drive 131 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 2: in clinic. But both of them you need to get 132 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: on the coronavirus website and make an appointment and then 133 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 2: you'll be given a time and go there at your 134 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: designated time. The one at the hospital you wait in 135 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: your car, and obviously the one here at Second Street, 136 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: which I'm at actually at the moment, and my time 137 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 2: was nine to twenty and there is a massive cu 138 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 2: already witness me. 139 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: So, Joe, you're speaking to us right now from that line, 140 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: waiting to obviously get a test yourself. 141 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: I am. 142 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 3: Please let us know how you go. 143 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: We'd be very keen to find out how long people 144 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: are waiting for. I guess the you know, the message 145 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: today for everybody is be patient. 146 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 3: If you're in that line, correct. 147 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 2: They do have a lot of shade up, there's seating there. 148 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 2: The business next door's got a fan out to help 149 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: out with people. I think people are doing all they can. 150 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 2: We just I urge people if they need to get tested, 151 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: get tested. And if you haven't had a vaccination yet, 152 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,599 Speaker 2: please get out and get a vaccination. 153 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: Joe, how many people? How many cars are there in 154 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: that line at the moment? 155 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 2: I know I'm in there. I'm in the walking all right, 156 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 2: my appointment yesterday. There would be if the people potentially 157 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 2: in front of me roughly, but you know, between Second 158 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 2: Street and bed Street both sides of the road A 159 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 2: full look cart. 160 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 3: Wow. 161 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: Well, Joe Hersey, I really appreciate your time this morning. 162 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: We'll probably catch up with you again tomorrow. Please let 163 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: us know how you go in terms of that line, 164 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: and let us know if there's anything that we need 165 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: to communicate to our listeners in Catherine throughout the morning 166 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: as well. 167 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 3: No worries, Katie, Thank you, thanks for your time.