As the number of virus cases surge in Tasmania, Senator Jacqui Lambie says the situation in her home state could 'get a lot worse yet'.
Senator Jacqui Lambie says the coronavirus debacle in Tasmania ‘scares the hell out of us’. Picture: Channel 9“I think that scares the hell out of us. We don’t know whether we have all the resources that we need down here,” she said.Anger was sparked over the outbreak among health workers when Australia’s chief medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy suggested yesterday that the infected professionals. He later retracted his comments after the theory was dismissed as a rumour.
Another leading health authority has suggested hospital staff may have been poorly equipped with personal protective equipment during the beginning of the outbreak, which could have contributed to the spread.Patients transferred from the North West Regional Hospital in Burnie to the Mersey Community Hospital in Latrobe.
In an interview with ABC TV, Prof Burgess said staff “training and support” around PPE needed to be improved and said supply of the vital equipment was an ongoing global issue. Prof Burgess also said containment includes reducing the “risk of droplet spread which can go up to 1.5-2m when someone coughs or sneezes”.
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