There are fresh calls to scrap daylight savings, with warnings the health impacts of turning the clocks forward could be amplified by COVID-19.
the Victorian Health Department needed to consider the negative impacts of the upcoming change to daylight.There are growing calls to cancel daylight savings due to increased health risks associated with the change. Picture: Chris Robinson“In terms of the scientific evidence, which we will want to stick with at the moment, there are more heart attacks just after daylight savings, more road accidents, and then you’ve got workplace accidents, car accidents and their implications,” he said.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews shut down the possibility of cancelling daylight savings when asked about Prof Zimmet’s comments during Wednesday’s press conference. “If we stay the course we’ll be able to get close to normal, COVID normal but close to normal, but people will be able to go out and enjoy the city, enjoy the state, enjoy being back at work, enjoy a sense of confidence as they go into 2021 and you know what they’ll enjoy most? They’ll enjoy the fundamental truth that all that they’ve given, all that they’ve done count counted for something,” the premier said.
The debate around daylight savings ramped up last year when the European parliament voted to scrap changing the clocks from 2021.
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