The newly announced strong border policy is unpleasant but allows contact tracing and isolation. We can operate business 'nearly' as usual (imports/exports ok). Stay strong Australia. #COVID19au No need to #Lockdownaustralia
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What truly terrible and dangerous advice. There's already many cases of community transmission (not from overseas travellers) happening in Aus. Stay home as much as possible and try to slow the tranmission rate. Anything else is irresponsible
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Replying to @druheals
Gov records show 61% of cases have direct/indirect travel history. If cases still under investigation follow similar pattern then over 80% of cases have travel history. This makes border closure + 14 day isolation for all travellers an epidemiologically sound decision.

Mar 16, 2020 · 6:26 AM UTC

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Replying to @MarylouiseMcla1 @druheals
Is every patient presenting with symptoms being tested? Therefore is that 61% entirely accurate when testing is predominantly biased towards people with travel history? There's also been a mention of a shortage of tests. Can we confidently rely on this data? I hope so
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