He said WA was susceptible to an outbreak due to relaxed restrictionsUnder the current health advice the border restrictions will remain in place until there have been 28 consecutive days without community transmission of coronavirus anywhere in Australia.
He also said the speed at which WA had transitioned to a more open model made relaxing the border a risky proposition."Because people can socialise, can go to work, can enjoy themselves … we are actually quite susceptible to a case," he said. "If we get even one or two cases coming in, we're likely to get a serious outbreak, which may require further restrictions."Dr Robertson said having to re-introduce restrictions would cause serious damage to the state.The hard border restrictions will only be eased once community transmission of coronavirus has ended.
"It would have a serious impact on tourism it would have a serious impact on peoples' ability to get out and about.Dr Robertson also said he did not feel any political pressure to change his health advice. "I'm asked to provide advice regularly as to where we are at, what's happening, and where I anticipate we should be going, and what is safe to do to enable the WA community to remain safe," he said.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
The WA’s top doctor is nothing more than a political pawn being manipulated by the Premier to say what he wants him to say.
How are we going to cope when the entire country has to eventually open up to the rest of the world?
I never realized Labor would become the party of pro-borders and preventing people from traveling to there area due to no other reason than where they came from.
And yet NSW is coping. 🙄
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