Australia’s peak medical body will investigate cutting the COVID-19 isolation requirements from seven days to five at the end of September when surging coronavirus cases are expected to subside. covid19
Australia’s peak medical group will look into whether the isolation period should be cut at the end of September.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said on Monday that the national cabinet discussed cutting the isolation period from seven days to five, but the medical advice was that “now is certainly not the time” with the country in the midst of a coronavirus wave. There are 64,000 reported active cases in Victoria.Justin McManus
Andrews said while he backed his NSW counterpart’s comments, altering the rules right now would make it “harder and harder” for healthcare workers who are already under pressure.“Even [Perrottet’s] own position at national cabinet on Saturday was not that it should occur right now in the middle of winter, but at some point,” Andrews said on Monday.
One of the country’s top pandemic advisers, Professor James McCaw, said governments across the country needed to continue maintaining policies aimed at slowing the spread of the virus, which federal government modelling has shown will infect millions of Australians over the coming weeks. Catherine Bennett, Deakin University’s chair in epidemiology, urged the government to release data on the impacts that cutting isolation requirements from seven days to five would have on spreading the virus.
Cheng said there were still risks people could be contagious after their isolation period, but they were manageable.
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