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Supermarket staff, health workers, and take-out staff are among those who must undergo urgent coronavirus screening, as authorities protect against a secondary outbreak.
The Director of the Morayfield Health Center, north of Brisbane, Dr. Evan Jones, said that staff in high-risk work environments, as a result of being in contact with large numbers of the public, should be tested immediately to avoid another increase in COVID-19 cases.
He says that it will take only one asymptomatic essential worker to start a new wave of infections, and he believes we must take all necessary precautions to keep high-risk workers healthy.
The occupations affected include supermarket staff, transportation workers, health workers, food service workers, and retail personnel.
“We need to test anyone with any possible symptoms and we must be aware of asymptomatic spills, those that may be minimally affected or asymptomatic, but that may be in situations where they come into contact with many people,” he told The Courier. Mail.
A doctor warned that we must keep high-risk workers healthy to avoid a secondary outbreak of coronavirus. Pictured: Nurses assess patients at Bondi Beach Self-Service Clinic COVID-19
Australia has been effectively flattening the infection curve in recent weeks, from 460 cases daily on March 28 to just 12 on April 22
‘These include food services, elderly residential care workers, bus drivers. I don’t think we can emphasize enough, particularly if they have minimal symptoms, that they should come and get tested. ‘
Australia’s coronavirus infection rate has dropped dramatically in recent weeks, from 460 new cases on March 28 to just 12 on April 22.
This despite the fact that testing has increased, with more than 12,000 conducted across the country during the 24-hour period.
There are 6,652 cases of coronavirus in Australia as of Thursday morning, with 4,932 recoveries and 74 deaths.
Our efforts to flatten the curve have been very successful, with travel bans, social distancing measures, closed borders, and business closings that reduced the number of new cases each day by up to 90 percent in less than a month.
Stage three restrictions on meeting and leaving the house without a valid reason presented on March 31 are expected to flatten the curve for the rest of April.
To keep our infection rates low, Dr. Jones said we must be incredibly careful to ensure the health of essential workers, and he urged anyone with symptoms to get tested.
“What we should be able to do is make sure that people in high-risk occupations are negative,” he said.
As of Thursday morning, Australia has 6,652 cases of coronavirus, with 4,932 recoveries and 74 deaths.
Supermarket staff who come into contact with many people on their work days could become a major spread of the deadly disease. Pictured: grocery shoppers with face masks in Eastwood, northwest Sydney
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the infection rate was a reflection of how seriously Australians were taking distancing orders.
“When it comes to social distancing, quarantine, isolation measures, we will continue to heed medical advice and that has served Australia well,” he said.
Australia’s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Paul Kelly, said the promising figures had prompted the government to consider reducing stringent blockade measures in just three weeks.
Bus drivers and transportation workers may also be at high risk of spreading the disease if they are asymptomatic. Pictured: A couple in facial masks passes a bus in Sydney on Tuesday.
Despite the declining numbers, almost half of Australians say it is too early to think of easing restrictions on social distancing.
Dr. Evan Jones believes that an asymptomatic essential worker coming into contact with a wide range of the community could cause a new wave of coronavirus cases
A new Essential Research survey reveals that 49% of the 1,051 people surveyed believe that it is too early to lift the closure.
More than a quarter said it should be done within the next month or by the end of May.
Only one in 10 wanted strict rules to be relaxed as soon as possible.
Younger Australians ages 18 to 34 were more likely to want early relaxation, almost double the overall rate.
NSW residents were also most eager to return to life as normal as possible as soon as possible.
But more than half of those living in Victoria and Western Australia said it was too soon.
Outstanding survey results may shed light on why Australia crushed the coronavirus curve
New survey data may shed light on why Australia has so successfully flattened the coronavirus curve.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the results of its first survey on the impact of the pandemic on households across the country on Monday, the same day the country registered only eight new cases of COVID-19.
About 1,059 Australians participated in the ABS telephone survey in the first week of April on impact at work, hours worked, health precautions, hygiene, social distancing, self-isolation, flu vaccine and travels.
An ABS survey has revealed that the majority of Australians are obeying recently applied public health guidelines. The photo is Sydney’s Coogee Beach on the Monday after it was reopened for exercise.
An overwhelming 98 percent of respondents said they had been practicing social distancing, while 88 percent took the block seriously by avoiding public spaces and events.
About 87 percent have canceled personal meetings in the previous four weeks.
“Most Australians adhere to public health guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” said Michelle Marquardt, manager of ABS’s household survey program.
Despite the slump in new cases, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of Australians remain concerned about their health amid the outbreak that has claimed 71 lives in the past three months.
Almost nine out of ten Australians (87 percent) wash their hands and / or use disinfectant more than usual.
About half pay attention to advice not to touch your face, while one in six (17 percent) wears a face mask every time they leave home for essential purposes.
Already 2.2 million have been vaccinated against the flu this year, while another 12.2 million intend to be targeted as the winter flu season approaches.
More than half (52 percent) of Australians changed or canceled their travel plans in March when Australia and other countries around the world closed.
On the labor front, about 12 percent of employed Australians worked longer hours than normal as a result of the coronavirus, while almost a quarter (24 percent) worked less.
About 98 percent of respondents said they had been practicing social distancing. In the photo, police enforce the law in the eastern suburbs of Sydney on Saturday.
“The survey found that the proportion of people who had a job fell by three percentage points between early March and early April,” said Marquardt.
Two-thirds (66 percent) of Australians surveyed had a job in the first week of March, which fell to 63 percent in early April.
Since then, ABS has contacted surveyed households to ask follow-up questions about their current employment situation, how government stimulus payments were spent, the financial and psychological impacts, and how they communicate with friends and family.
ABS will release data from the second survey in early May and plans to provide more details on surveyed households in the coming months.
