Seven staff test positive to coronavirus at Melbourne's Northern Hospital

Seven staff from Victoria's busiest emergency department have tested positive to COVID-19 over the last five days.Sources from the hospital told the ABC only ambulances with code one emergencies were being taken to the hospital's emergency room

A spokesperson from the Northern Hospital in Epping said extensive contact tracing was underway following the positive test results, and added the hospital's emergency department was undergoing a deep clean.Non-urgent elective surgeries and outpatient appointments have been postponed to free up capacity at the hospital, which will allow the emergency department to remain open.

Survival of the fittest. Surely there is a cure out there. Pray for our Nurses, Doctors and Mediical Research Staff.

pepeMcGee Close down Chapel Street. It's out of control.

Will I ever get to go back to Melbourne again.

How exactly did this happen in an emergency department with correct protocol regarding PPE implemented? Inquiry needed and results to be published!

Amazing that health professionals with quality PPE can get infected inside an environment that is considered to be medically cleaned but we are told that BLM protestors were safe using old bandanas as face masks and that there was no link to protests

Its spreading like wildfire!!!!!

They have tested positive to Sunrise 19 Virus!!!!

So are the RWNJs who demanded the reopening and threw all their toys out of the pram over ‘Dictator Dan’ going to take responsibility? Oh, and where is Scovid? Absolute silence for days. Another holiday during a national crisis, or does he think this is just a VIC problem?

GOOD. Can achieve 'herd immunity' quicker rather than the up & down patterns due to stupid hesitations in management plans, which unnecessarily just drags the 'infection season' for nothing. Moreover, it's winter, provided this is actually covid19 and not other viral infections.

So bad

Not Surprised was a Patient at this Hospital, worst in Victoria . Never will return supposed to be in isolation, they placed me in shared room with infected Patient.

Fuck.

Remember when MarkMcGowanMP said the situation in Victoria was dire 2 weeks ago? How right he was.

Oh no 😟

Well that’s not good 😳

TheRealBozza1

Pity.. If only there were competent journalists asking the right questions instead of BS headlines. Simple question.. 1. What is the PCR cycle cuttoff that determines a positive /negative result? Anybody? Thought so.

Do we need hazmat suits to survive this thing? This must be some unique strain.

Asher_Wolf

Time to hand it over to your higher power Dan. Scomo.

Worse and worse news. Covid-19 is insideous

Staff wear a mask, plz. Asian countries already prove its working. Why on hell it took 6 months to debate its working or not.

It's getting worse by the day. Time to bunker down

Victoria exploding. Not in a good way.

RyanNorthover Terrible

Faaaark

What a shit show.

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