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Not COVID, but ‘quite debilitating’: The viruses running rampant in Victoria – 3AW
Victoria has gone three weeks without a locally-acquired COVID-19 case, but testing rates have surged to more than 21,000 for the past two days. Altona GP and former…
Victoria has gone three weeks without a locally-acquired COVID-19 case, but testing rates have surged to more than 21,000 for the past two days.
Altona GP and former president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, says two other viruses are driving up COVID-19 testing rates.
“We’re getting a lot of a bug called RSV respiratory syncytial virus especially in kids, and it makes them quite sick,” he told Ross Stevenson.
“And there’s rhinovirus, which is like the common cold … but…
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