Australia’s Chief Medical Officer has revealed it would be catastrophic if COVID-19 was able to infiltrate Indigenous communities after protests.
Thousands are expected at protests in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart on Saturday to show solidarity with the movement andThe Australian protests are also a show of support to the Aboriginal community to highlight high levels of indigenous incarceration and deaths in custody. Professor Brendan Murphy says authorities have always feared an outbreak in indigenous communities.
“The risk to loss of life and spread of this virus in some of those remote communities would be catastrophic,” he said on Friday.“This would be an absolute tragedy if we got that virus into one of our remote communities.” Huge crowds gathered in Perth, Sydney and Canberra this week to support the movement.
The EU has said it will not open borders to travellers from the rest of the world before July. The 27-member bloc closed borders to Asia, the Americas and elsewhere in a bid to slow the virus in a ban that expires June 15. However Ylva Johansson, the EU’s home affairs commissioner, said there was a “strong preference” among the ministers to extend it.
Restrictions are also still in place between some EU member states, but they are slowly being lifted and the commission hopes this process will be completed soon. “That means that internal border controls are lifted by the end of June … we should consider the gradual lifting restrictions on non-essential travel to the EU early July,” Johansson told reporters.
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