Doctors are calling on schools, daycare centres and sporting clubs to stop sending children to their practices to ask for certificates declaring them coronavirus-free | Dana_Adele
GPs are emailing patients asking them to refrain from showing up unannounced with coronavirus symptoms - potentially putting doctors and staff at risk of contracting the deadly virus - and asking for medical certificates when they did not have symptoms.
A Canberra practice said in one email that while it could not provide medical certificates "to certify that you do not have coronavirus", it could issue certificates "stating you returned to Australia 14 or more days ago, you state you have not been unwell and that you have no signs of infection", if presented with travel documents.
"We will be concerned if you discuss a possible coronavirus infection during a consultation without forewarning and precautions," the email said.Those who did need to come in for "an examination and swabs" were asked to "please call reception on arrival to check-in and wait in your car for us to come and meet you".
"If this is not possible then put on a mask immediately on entering the practice and make yourself known to reception as possibly having coronavirus," the email said.Dr Nespolon said medical centre staff were worried about their own risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, which
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