A leading Gold Coast doctor has praised the latest hard closure of Queensland's borders, as fears grow the city's health sector is already strained by Sydney's COVID-19 cluster.Road barricades are returning to Queensland/NSW border crossings in response to Sydney's coronavirus outbreakA nurse says staff at testing centres are at risk of burnout
"It's possible we may get our own version of the Northern Beaches of Sydney-type story happening here. That's what we're fearful of."A Gold Coast nurse, who asked to remain anonymous, said staff at testing clinics had been verbally abused by people waiting in queues for up to six hours. She said the clinics "aren't coping at all" with more temporary mobile testing units needed to handle unexpected jumps in demand.
"Our focus is on testing people with symptoms as quickly as possible and we have increased our staffing numbers," they said. For Dr Halliwell, the long lines at testing centres demonstrate that people are still taking the pandemic seriously."I'm going to guess and say that that's 75 per cent of people who are doing the right thing.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)