‘Only four new cases. There may be more [cases] later, but we certainly appear to be flattening that curve very successfully at the moment.’
He said specific support had been offered to the care home in question to help it battle new coronavirus cases there.The country’s lockdown measures were introduced at the same time as the UK – but have been strictly enforced Prime Minister Scott Morrison then took the decision to close the country’s borders on Friday March 20 – three days before the UK’s lockdown was even announced.At that time, 80% of cases in Australia had been people who had travelled into the country from abroad.
Australians could no longer leave home except for work, education, essential shopping, exercise, and medical or compassionate needs, with hefty fines for those seen to be breaking the rules.The government has stepped up testing, with thousands of Australians tested for coronavirus each day Professor Tony Blakely, epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist at the University of Melbourne, said: ‘We had another 10-day window to actually respond and stop it getting that way,’ he said.
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