Prime Minister Scott Morrison and all state and territory leaders are expected to make a decision on the recommendations on Tuesday.
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday recommended a stop to mass gatherings of 50 people or more including weddings, parades and concerts for the next two months. Ireland shut down pubs and New York ordered all restaurants to become take-away only.
All options remain on the table if the infection rate escalates sharply. The government is wary of taking healthcare workers out of the workforce to care for their children or potentially infectious children being sent to stay with more vulnerable grandparents. "We need to do what we can to limit the opportunity for the infection to come into aged care," he said.
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 Continue to send children to school, and the number of infections will continue to increase! There is no case now, and it may be in the incubation period.
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 You don’t have test kits now. You don’t shut off schools and universities. And you said could be worse. You just do nothing? How about you go home and leave us alone.
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 So, you don’t close the schools and universities to attain that goal?
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 This is not 'worst case'. If the health system is overloaded like Italy then we could have 5-7% fatality or 1 million dead. Much as it pains me, the worst places for spreading this must be pubs & cafes etc.., so they need to be closed (& financially supported) ASAP. GladysB
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 What kind of government we are having here? No action apart from telling people to wash hands and death numbers? Who is creating panic buying?
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 Oh my god! Hopeless leaderships
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 Why on earth do media publish this brainless crap, he's just scare mongering based on zero evidence.
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 Wild dreams
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 So you mean 50000 minimum? WTF
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 and the rest
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 Well, it’s kinda how pandemics work. The math is self-explanatory.
Dana_Adele ErykBagshaw rharris334 UK model