Taking care going forward

Dr Linda Calabresi

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Dr Linda Calabresi

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Dr Linda Calabresi

This week’s expert:
Prof Raina MacIntyre, Head of Biosecurity at the Kirby Institute, University of NSW

Drawn from an interview with Prof MacIntyre by Dr Harry Nespolon on the Healthed podcast Going Viral.

• The current stepwise approach to the lifting of restrictions in Australia is appropriate given the exceedingly low rates of community transmission and the wide availability of testing and the COVID safe app, which hopefully will ensure new cases of the disease are detected early and potential outbreaks are contained.

• With the lifting of restrictions, we need to pay extra attention to mitigation strategies such as social distancing and the use of facemasks in situations where maintaining social distancing is not possible.

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