Lightning McQueen wrote:Trader wrote:But how does the family member come into contact with them? Shouldn't they (the international traveller) be locked up in a hotel for the 14 days waiting out the contagious period before they meet their family?
Probably snuck back in just before that rule came into fruition, which pisses me off a bit as I've seen people on FB saying just managed to avoid some form of restriction by a day or few hours, stiff shit, do the right thing and act as though you didn't eat the system.
That's what I first thought, but even still the dates don't seem to make sense.
The 14 day lockdown came in on the 15th of March.
If they got in on the 14th, no lockdown required, fair enough (noting it would have been good for them to do the right thing anyway).
So they would have been contagious until the 28th of March at the latest. So the new case caught it before the 28th. If the new case only has it for 14 days as well, how have then been found positive after the 11th of April?
So it shouldn't have come from someone who snuck in before the lockdown started.
Anyone who came in after shouldn't be interacting with anyone else.
So for mine that means either the 14 day contagious period is actually longer, or they are attributing it to international travel when in fact it came come community transmission.
Makes you wonder if SA Health are just declaring these cases as 'solved' just to make the numbers look good?