Itching to go to a live event or head overseas again? Don’t hold your breath. A top health official reveals when he expects coronavirus restrictions to be lifted.
Dr Brett Sutton is leading the official advice for Victoria, which has enacted some of the harshest restrictions in Australia in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus through the community.Dr Sutton warned that when restrictions are eventually rolled back it wouldn’t be a return to business as usual immediately, with a gradual easing planned instead.
“That might be [restrictions on] gatherings, MCG-type gatherings and maybe we can hold it back if we can get everything else right in terms of testing and hand hygiene and cough etiquette,” Dr Sutton told the newspaper, adding international travel will probably be the last facet of the pre-coronavirus world to return.
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has warned it will be a while before things go back to normal. Picture: Mark StewartThat approach has been suggested around the world, most notably in the U.K. where it was briefly considered and then abandoned, shortly before the Prime Minister Boris Johnson came down with the virus himself and wound up in the intensive care unit.
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