Health
What factors determine whether a school is shut down due to coronavirus? – ABC News
What is the trigger for shutting down a school because of coronavirus? We spoke to a public health expert to find out how that decision gets made.
When it comes to what it takes to force the closure of a school because of coronavirus, there’s no simple checklist that applies across all of Australia at all times.
Instead, the states and territories make their own decisions based on their own particular circumstances at that moment, while guided by a common set of principles.
We spoke to Terry Slevin, the chief executive officer at the Public Health Association of Australia and an adjunct professor at Curtin University and ANU, to talk us …
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