And of course, as you point out, in very small apartments, especially if they are crowded, this may not be possible.Grimshaw: How likely is it that this lockdown will last just five days?Professor Kidd: I think it is an issue for the Victorian authorities. The app was considered several times over the past three weeks by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), which is comprised of all state and territory Chief Health Officers and is chaired by the Australian Chief Medical Officer. Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Michael Kidd, said as of 3pm today there had been 1,015,652 tests in Australia. Whether you use the term second wave, I am not sure the term is being bandied around very widely to describe lots of things, but certainly we are seeing a second resurgence occurring in Victoria and it is very concerning.Grimshaw: A second wave is what terrifies people. But we will continue to do the very extensive contact tracing of everyone who has been in contact with someone who is diagnosed.Watch Hearts and Bones now on Stan. As the coronavirus crisis continues to wreak havoc on Victoria, A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw spoke with Professor Michael Kidd, Australia's Deputy Chief Medical Officer about whether the situation will get worse before it gets better.
The app was considered several times over the past three weeks by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), which is comprised of all state and territory Chief Health Officers and is chaired by the Australian Chief Medical Officer. Coronavirus conspiracy theories being rapidly spread across social media are putting everyone’s health at risk, Australia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd says. Please, if you have symptoms, stay at home and arrange to get tested.Grimshaw: Of the new cases in the Victoria spike, some may be asymptomatic who might not otherwise know or have been identified, what likelihood these random tests pick up on those? Absolutely not.
Is this a second wave yet?Professor Kidd: What we're seeing in Victoria is a secondary significant surge in infections. For this to qualify as a second wave, what more would need to happen?Professor Kidd: When we talk about the second wave, and often it is used in the context of the Spanish flu pandemic, what happened was the infection spread right across the country and resulted in even greater numbers of cases and greater numbers of fatalities than occurred in the first wave. Or is it being accepted that if there are three people living in a unit and one is infected, the other two are going to get it?
My understanding is that 53 people, we have been advised they have tested positive among the residents of the towers, there may well be more people. Because they are very small units, it is hard to physically distance.Professor Kidd: Yes, I don't know the exact details of what is happening in each of the units where people are being diagnosed. We will have to see what the Victorian authorities decide to do with the people in those circumstances. As the coronavirus crisis continues to wreak havoc on Victoria, A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw spoke with Professor Michael Kidd, Australia's Deputy Chief Medical Officer about whether the situation will get worse before it gets better.Grimshaw: Today, Victoria saw 127 new cases of coronavirus infection, the highest since the pandemic started. But again, that message, it only takes one person with the infection to spread to many other people. We will have to see what the Victorian authorities decide to do with the people in those circumstances. Yes, all state and territory governments were actively involved in the consultations over the development and rollout of the app. Because they are very small units, it is hard to physically distance.Professor Kidd: Yes, I don't know the exact details of what is happening in each of the units where people are being diagnosed. Coronavirus conspiracy theories being rapidly spread across social media are putting everyone’s health at risk, Australia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd says. Whether you use the term second wave, I am not sure the term is being bandied around very widely to describe lots of things, but certainly we are seeing a second resurgence occurring in Victoria and it is very concerning.Grimshaw: A second wave is what terrifies people. AUSTRALIANS appear to be embracing the Federal Government’s new COVIDSafe app, which was launched on Sunday night.More than 2.4 million people downloaded the app within 48 hours of its release, the Government has revealed.The app uses encrypted Bluetooth communications between phones to register when smartphones have been within 1.5m of one another for at least 15 minutes and can be used by health officials if a user tests positive to COVID-19.The voluntary app has received the backing of by doctors, nursing, business and banking groups, and is tipped to play a major role in streamlining the process of identifying contacts after a person tests positive for coronavirus.
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