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CoronaCheck #27
As Victoria comes to grips with a spike in COVID-19 cases, some analysts have recommended that the increase was set off by Melbourne’s recent Black Lives Matter rally, which was attended by 10,000 people. We’ve taken a look at what health officials are stating about the three protesters who have since evaluated positive for the infection.
We’ve also revisited misinformation surrounding the origins of the novel coronavirus, as tips continue to spread out that it was produced in a laboratory.
In this edition:
- Infection spike linked to families, not Black Lives Matter rally
- Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 converge in the United States
- Still no proof the novel coronavirus was produced in a laboratory
- Anti-African belief spreads in China
- From Washington, D.C.
- In other news
Infection spike linked to households, not Black Lives Matter rally
With COVID-19 case numbers on the rise in Victoria, some individuals have drawn an dubious link in between the spike and the large Black Lives Matter protest kept in Melbourne on June 6.
Tweeting today, Liberal senator Sarah Henderson stated: “Daniel Andrews blames law abiding Victorian households for doing the wrong thing instead of 10,000 illegal protesters?”
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A Few Of Senator Henderson’s Liberal Party associates, including Matthew Man, Georgie Crozier and Tim Smith, along with Evan Mulholland of the Institute of Public Affairs, tweeted similar criticisms, while headings have actually also declared that the “upsurge in COVID cases [is] connected to Melbourne Black Lives Matter demonstrations”.
However these assertions oppose the assistance of authorities of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Being Solutions, who continue to report that the present burst of cases does not stem from the rally. They have stated that while one protester “may have been contagious at the rally”, two others who have since evaluated positive for COVID-19 were not transmittable at the rally, nor is there evidence they contracted the infection at the rally
Rather, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton, has actually connected the increase in cases to household events, citing household spread as the “main cause” of 120 cases in the week to June 22.
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” Individuals have not followed our suggestions around physical distancing, health and limiting the variety of individuals you invite into your home,” he stated in a statement.
Australia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Nick Coatsworth, likewise dismissed claims the spike might be linked to the protests, telling reporters that “there is no evidence that there has been chains of community transmissio