Frontline health care workers are being urged to remain vigilant after two coronavirus outbreaks were linked to medical workers at the facilities.
The outbreaks in north-west Tasmania and a Western Sydney nursing home are responsible for four deaths and more than 100 cases of the virus.
Chief Nursing Officer Alison McMillan said that any nurses, doctors or aged care workers who felt unwell should not be attending work. Image: Getty
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Australia should demand reform of 'inept' WHO | Sky News AustraliaAustralia is entitled to demand the World Health Organisation reform off the back of its “inept” handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Outsiders host Rita Panahi says. \n\nMs Panahi said from the beginning of the crisis the WHO “uncritically accepted the lies” handed to them by China. \n\n“From the very start of this crisis the WHO has kowtowed to China and uncritically accepted the lies the communist regime fed them,” she said. \n\n'Donald Trump has halted US funding to the WHO but despite harsh criticism of the UN body from our politicians we will continue to pour millions into this broken, politicised and inept outfit.\n\n'Australia gives the WHO more than $50 million a year, considerably more than what China gives them. \n\n'The very least we can do is to demand that our money is conditional on some meaningful change at the organisation.'\n\nImage: AP
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Australia must look towards 'modern manufacturing' in a post COVID-19 world | Sky News AustraliaAustralia should use the immediate post-COVID-19 period to develop a bigger 'high tech, flexible manufacturing industry,' according to former Fortescue CEO Nev Power.\n\nManufacturing used to the bastion of the Australian economy but has declined significantly over the past fifty years.\n\nManufacturing made up nearly 30 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 1960s, however the sector now has slumped to around six per cent of GDP as many businesses move offshore.\n\nThe federal government has established the COVID-19 Coordination Commission to identify how business, including manufacturing, can thrive in a post-COVID-19 world.\n\nMr Power, who is part of the government's commission, told Sky News the sector must embrace'high tech, flexible manufacturing that is modern and attracts a sort of investment we need.'\n\n'In the early days, post pandemic, we will have a low dollar, disrupted supply chains which create opportunities for local manufacturing and we will have amply supply of labour from people that have been displaced from industries that will take longer to start up,' he said.\n\nI think there is an opportunity to retrain people into those roles and for us to take advantage of that time post the virus when there is that demand for local manufacturing.'\n\n
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NSW government negotiates with Virgin to relocate HQ to Sydney: Treasurer | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Sharri Markson has revealed NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet is in negotiations with Virgin Australia regarding “financial support” but the airline would “have to have the HQ of both Virgin and Tiger at the Western Sydney Airport site”.\n\nMr Perrottet told Sky News exclusively he has raised the possibility of Virgin moving its headquarters to the new aerotropolis facility at the new airport and it is “obviously part of the discussions we are having at the moment” regarding a potential bailout.\n\nThe Queensland Government have announced it would hand the airline $200 million in a bid to boost and maintain competition in Australia’s airline industry.\n\n“Virgin should have their headquarters for both Virgin and Tiger in Sydney,” Mr Perrottet said.\n\n“I’m always open for businesses right across the country to relocate to New South Wales and create jobs here in our state”.\n\nImage: Getty
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WHO have been ‘incredibly dangerous and silly’ in defence of Chinese wet markets | Sky News AustraliaLiberal MP Jason Falinski says the World Health Organisation welcoming the reopening of the wet markets by the communist Chinese government was “incredibly dangerous and silly”.\n\nMr Falinski said the WHO’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak “demonstrates the failure of some of our multilateral organisations that are set up to monitor these things”.\n\nThe WHO have come out in defence of China's wet markets stating, 'with proper regulation and good hygiene practices, it's possible to have safe food sold in wet markets'.\n\nLabor MP Matt Thistlethwaite told Sky News host Sharri Markson what is needed from the Chinese government is a “bit of transparency and openness so we can get to the bottom of the origin of this virus”.\n\nImage: AP
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Americans have 'had enough' of draconian restrictions | Sky News AustraliaUS governors like Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to “see just how far they can push their own power agendas” according to Sky News host James Morrow.\n\nMichigan has the fourth largest number of COVID-19 cases in America and the third highest death toll, which prompted Governor Whitmer to enact strict policies.\n\nWhile some have been met with bipartisan approval, there has been considerable backlash to some of the strict social distancing measures, which include a ban on neighbours seeing each other demanding stores to close sections 'dedicated to carpeting, flooring, furniture, garden centres, plant nurseries, or paint.'\n\nMr Morrow said Americans are starting “to have enough” of these draconian measures.\n\n“Many of them are taking to the streets and the roads to protest,” he said.\n\n“In Michigan protestors swarmed the capitol demanding the state to open back up.\n\n“It’s not an unreasonable request given that over 20 million Americans are out of a job as a result of the shutdown.”\n\n\nImage: AP
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Politicians cannot allowing COVID-19 to 'ruin prosperity' | Sky News AustraliaScott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg are poised to follow in Paul Keating’s footsteps and have “recession we didn’t have to have” engraved on their political tombstones, Outsiders host Rowan Dean says. \n \nMr Dean said the “unavoidable mack truck” of a demolished economy is set to hand office over to a “socialist Labor government”. \n \n'Australia does not need to go into an economic depression in order to defeat this virus,” he said. \n \n “If we do ruin our prosperity, it will go down in history as our greatest ever own goal, the recession we did not have to have.'\n \nMr Dean said Mr Morrison has so far made the right decisions to curb the spread of the virus, but said from May 1st, small business should be able to reopen if they adhere to social distancing and hygiene regulations.\n\n
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