A “suburban screening blitz” introducing in Victoria today will aim to perform 100,000 coronavirus tests over the next 10 days.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he’s confident the method will help contain the infection, however how will it work?
Why is Victoria testing many individuals?
Victoria has actually just taped 33 brand-new coronavirus infections— it’s the largest single-day increase in weeks and the ninth successive day there’s been a double-digit boost.
However what has actually had authorities fretted over the past week is the recent boost in cases of “community transmission”, where the source of the infection is unidentified.
Mr Andrews states authorities anticipate the blitz will discover more cases, and ideally stop the infection spreading out further.
” This suburban screening blitz is all about finding all of those individuals that have this infection, then having them quarantined in their home with proper assistance,” he says.
The Premier said “hundreds and hundreds of hours of planning” throughout several companies have entered into developing the response.
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