It’s been one year since Australia’s first COVID-19 case. Here’s what our health workers have learned

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Monday marks exactly one year since the first case of coronavirus was discovered in Australia. Twelve months on, doctors who were on the frontlines when the virus arrived here say they remain on high alert.

Twelve months later, and healthcare workers and the general public know a lot more about the disease now known as COVID-19.

“When we started getting information from people onboard, because they were talking to people outside, then we got to know that it was really bad,” she said.But even after the lessons learned through Victoria’s devastating second wave, the, multiple aged care outbreaks, and numerous other shutdowns and restrictions, some things about the virus remain unknown.

A man gestures from inside his apartment during the hard lockdown of nine public housing towers in Melbourne.In Victoria, which saw Australia's most severe second wave of COVID-19, leaving almost 800 people dead, health authorities have had to work overtime to keep on top of the virus. “At that point, we were all looking at Italy,” he said. “We were all thinking we were going to be the next Italy, preparing for huge numbers of thousands and thousands of patients and how on earth we were going to be able to manage those within the healthcare system we had.”

 

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