Victorian disease detectives are now hitting the same time targets for positive coronavirus cases as their NSW counterparts, but the news comes with a warning from Victoria's Chief Health Officer. covid19 coronavirus lockdown springst contactracing
Coronavirus tests results should also be turned around within 12 hours, while the extensive contact tracing process should be completed within 24 hours, he said.“The Victorian government has done an enormous job over the past few months to strengthen the contact tracing system. They have improved the IT system to efficiently allocate cases to contract tracers and I feel those improvements should stand us in reasonably good stead to detect cases and follow up close contacts.
Professor Sutton also moved to back Victoria's tough stage four lockdown, despite conflicting advice from the World Health Organisation on the legitimacy of lockdowns to stop the spread of coronavirus. "Lockdowns have just one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer."“We have followed a strategy that is not using lockdown interminably. We are using the restrictions that are in place now to drive the case numbers down,” he said.
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