Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Australia/Archive 3

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Semi-protected edit request on 7 September 2021

Please delete "The states will receive passengers thus:" and the by-city details immediately after that. Source #140 shows itself to be unreliable, because as I noted three sections above, the maths are wrong; add up the figures and you get 150 more than the alleged total. We shouldn't be using a source that makes such an egregious error. 64.203.186.67 (talk) 13:22, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

For the next edit request patroller: https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/07/18000-aussies-will-be-bumped-off-flights-due-to-cap-reduction/ says that Brisbane is 500 + 150 surge capacity, which I don't actually know what that means. I have to go but thought I'd drop that here before I leave. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (talk) 21:04, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Fixed. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (talk) 03:51, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 September 2021

In this text:

Cases that are no longer active (Infectious) and aren't recovered, are classified as Not Infectious as they may still suffer from the impacts of the disease

please remove the comma and add it between "Not Infectious" and "as they". Also, "impact" isn't pluralisable unless you're talking about literal impact, like the impacts of bullets hitting a target, so "impacts" should become "impact". The end result should be:

Cases that are no longer active (Infectious) and aren't recovered are classified as Not Infectious, as they may still suffer from the impact of the disease

64.203.186.85 (talk) 15:48, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

 Done This was actually in Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Australia medical cases chart ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:42, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 October 2021

Please remove

for the first time since 9 June 139 days.

and add

for the first time since 9 June: 139 days.

It doesn't make sense without the added punctuation. 2600:1003:B858:E7D9:CDD5:924E:1FD4:CD55 (talk) 13:08, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

 Partly done: The readers can be left to do their own maths if the exact precise number of days is needed. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:43, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 October 2021

recorded it's "worst day"

Please remove the apostrophe from "it's". 64.203.186.84 (talk) 20:46, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Done I Am Chaos (talk) 23:15, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 October 2021

Australia reported its 100th case on 10 March 2020 roughly corresponding the start of Australia's first wave.

"Corresponding" obviously isn't right, but I don't know what should replace it. Maybe "corresponding to" or "marking" would be good? Please replace it with something that makes sense. 64.203.186.93 (talk) 14:35, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. I think corresponding is correct, as it could have reached 100 cases independent of any wave. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:10, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

So why not say "corresponding to" instead of "corresponding"? "Corresponding" by itself means "carrying on correspondence", like writing letters. 64.203.186.84 (talk) 20:46, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

I agree with ScottishFinnishRadish that it could be independent of any given wave, so ""Corresponding to" would fit grammatically in the sentence as it currently stands. I Am Chaos (talk) 23:19, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

 Done I changed it to corresponding with. I must have mentally corrected the poor grammar while reading it the first time. Sorry about that. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

And then I changed it to corresponding to, because that is better. Sorry about that, ip editor. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:43, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 November 2021

Please change

forbids international cruise ships from entering Australian ports before 15 April 2020.

to

forbade international cruise ships from entering Australian ports before 15 April 2020.

This was more than a year and a half ago, so it should be in past tense. 72.77.45.188 (talk) 19:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: Not done, but thank you for the prompt – I have added the clarification that this ban remains in place until December 2021, along with sources. ClaudineChionh (talk – contribs) 22:52, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 December 2021

Please change

On 8 November, the [[Annastacia Palaszczuk|premier of Queensland]] announced that as of December 17

to

On 8 November, Queensland premier [[Annastacia Palaszczuk]] announced that as of 17 December

I expected the link to go to the Premier of Queensland article, not to the article about the incumbent. And "December 17" sounds weird in an Australian context. 122.150.71.249 (talk) 21:19, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

 Done —Sirdog (talk) 21:36, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Omicron

Omicron has been detected in a number of states.123.103.210.114 (talk) 11:44, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Case numbers

Why does the "Timeline" section chart show almost no new cases in the last couple of weeks? NSW reports 2,213 cases in the last 24 hours, 7,609 this week, and 2,363 last week, and Victoria has had over a thousand cases per day since October. 122.150.71.249 (talk) 21:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Fix cases.

Case numbers for Australia are wrong in the timeline. This data is pulled by Google for its COVID statistics cases graph, which is also wrong. 2001:8004:C43:9F22:60B6:CC7A:E342:6E8D (talk) 21:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 January 2022

While "National Plan to transition Australia's National COVID-19 Response" is the name of a document, it's still an inconvenient title for a sub-section. Please change it to "National transition plan". 122.150.71.249 (talk) 10:12, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: It refers to a particular plan, seems appropriate to use the plan's name. hemantha (brief) 12:51, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 January 2022

This sentence has a comma splice.

On 20 June, the Victorian Government announced the re-tightening of restrictions on household gatherings following a spike in community transmitted cases over the previous week, reported to be mainly caused by family-to-family transmission in large household gatherings, most easing of restrictions that were to take place were postponed.

Please end the sentence after the second "gatherings" and make "most" the first word of a new sentence. 122.150.71.249 (talk) 18:36, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done PianoDan (talk) 21:12, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Influenza 2022

Please place in the section on Health, under Influenza:

ATAGI expects a resurgence in influenza for the 2022 flu season due to the opening of borders.

Thank you. 159.196.100.171 (talk) 03:59, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

References

 Done. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (talk) 00:55, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Talk:COVID-19 lab leak theory#Request for comment

An editor has started an RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Interested editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPath^talk 23:53, 3 October 2023 (UTC)