Health
Lockdown should continue for another 12 weeks to bring infection rate under control, expert says – Yahoo News Australia
Professor Devi Sridhar described the nationwide restrictions as “crude” and “catastrophic” but said they are needed to protect the NHS.
A ‘Thank you NHS’ banner in the window of a house in Worcester. (PA)
The current nationwide lockdown should be extended by 12 weeks to halt the soaring infection rate, an expert has said.
Professor Devi Sridhar, chair of public health at Edinburgh University, described the nationwide restrictions as crude and catastrophic for the economy and mental health.
But she said the measures were needed to protect the public and the NHS as she argued that a three-phase strategy of measures lasting for the…
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