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AAP is reporting that the head of the Australian Medical Association, Steve Robson, is calling for a genuine strategy rather than a “series of political responses” is needed to address the Covid outbreak in China.
Despite Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly advising that imposing restrictions on travellers from China, or any other country, at this time was “unnecessary and inconsistent with Australia’s COVID-19 management”, Health Minister Mark Butler went imposed the testing measure.
We really would love to see a comprehensive strategy about how to deal with the COVID situation in the northern hemisphere, at a time when there’s a huge amount of travel going on and almost no mitigations rather than what would look to people like a series of political responses.
We want to see a comprehensive strategy that’s informed by public health practice, to just say, ‘what needs to be done to protect Australians at this vulnerable time?’
We’ve just literally come out of the most lethal year of the pandemic by a longshot … We want to see a strategy that’s evidence-based, nimble … and based on good public health principles.
We haven’t really heard anything from the government except a plan that really seems cobbled together… it’s time for this cobbling to stop and coherence to start.
I think countries will make their own decisions about travel arrangements and how they manage covid more broadly. We’ve been pretty clear we’ve taken this decision out of an abundance of caution. Now, I don’t think it’s an especially onerous requirement to be fran. And it’s consistent with the steps being taken in other countries.
I don’t see it precisely like that, but there certainly is a lot of concern around the global health community … around the transparency and quality of data we see out of China on covid.
Continue reading…WA emergency services minister says it’s ‘kind of shocking’ how high floodwaters are getting. Follow the day’s news liveGet our free app or daily news podcastAAP is reporting that the head of the Australian Medical Association, Steve Robson, is calling for a genuine strategy rather than a “series of political responses” is needed to address the Covid outbreak in China.Despite Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly advising that imposing restrictions on travellers from China, or any other country, at this time was “unnecessary and inconsistent with Australia’s COVID-19 management”, Health Minister Mark Butler went imposed the testing measure.We really would love to see a comprehensive strategy about how to deal with the COVID situation in the northern hemisphere, at a time when there’s a huge amount of travel going on and almost no mitigations rather than what would look to people like a series of political responses.We want to see a comprehensive strategy that’s informed by public health practice, to just say, ‘what needs to be done to protect Australians at this vulnerable time?’We’ve just literally come out of the most lethal year of the pandemic by a longshot … We want to see a strategy that’s evidence-based, nimble … and based on good public health principles.We haven’t really heard anything from the government except a plan that really seems cobbled together… it’s time for this cobbling to stop and coherence to start.I think countries will make their own decisions about travel arrangements and how they manage covid more broadly. We’ve been pretty clear we’ve taken this decision out of an abundance of caution. Now, I don’t think it’s an especially onerous requirement to be fran. And it’s consistent with the steps being taken in other countries.I don’t see it precisely like that, but there certainly is a lot of concern around the global health community … around the transparency and quality of data we see out of China on covid. Continue reading…