Health
Australia’s top medical experts to spend Saturday deciding further Victorian restrictions – Brisbane Times
Ahead of an expected announcement on Sunday, Australia’s panel of top medical minds has begun meeting to decide what restrictions will stifle Victoria’s surging second wave.
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the panel faced “impossible decisions” that could cause widespread economic ruptures with the closure of non-essential businesses, tougher restrictions on high-risk workplaces and tighter limits on movement between suburbs of Melbourne and Mitchell Shire.
Professor Sutton said tougher restrictions would bring “really significant consequences” but admitted that after a record 723 new cases on Thursday and 42 deaths since Sunday, a tougher lockdown…
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