Australia cannot afford to lift its strict social distancing measures until the health system can cope with a large outbreak of COVID-19, according to Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy
Australia cannot afford to lift its strict social distancing measures until the health system can cope with a large outbreak of community transmission of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, according to Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy. Australia has 6,457 confirmed cases of COVID-19; around half of those have recovered while 63 have died and 42 are on ventilators.
” "Unless we are prepared as a nation to detect those outbreaks really early and get on top of them and controlled them and isolate the cases and quarantined the contacts, we could end up with large community outbreaks that could lead to situations like we've all seen every night on the Nightly News in high income countries with good health systems like the USA and the UK," he said.
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