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March 25, 2020 21: 27:29
A crucial member of a specialist panel recommending the Government’s reaction to COVID-19 has actually voiced her aggravations at Australia’s staged shutdown approach, warning the death toll might possibly rise if the Government did not take a “go hard, go now approach”.
Bottom line:
- Transmittable illness specialist Raina MacIntrye said the Government might do the right thing for public health and the economy
- The PM revealed a nationwide crackdown on social gatherings, however stopped short of a lockdown
- She said the nation would see “more cases and potentially more deaths” as a result of the hold-up
Raina MacIntyre from the UNSW’s Biosecurity Program belongs to a specialist panel from Australia’s leading universities, which advised an instant but brief lockdown to suppress cases, a technique the Government did not take.
” I was hoping we ‘d see a more extensive lockdown for a short amount of time, however that is not the approach we’re taking,” Teacher MacIntyre stated.
” It’s more a trickle sort of ap