MORE WORRIED ABOUT MELBOURNE THAN SYDNEY Prof Collignon said until those links could all be pinned down, there was a possibility the Victoria outbreak may have come from somewhere other than NSW. In some ways, I m a little more concerned by the cases in Melbourne than Sydney, he said. That it s from NSW is a presumption at the moment and that s why we need genomic testing given there s been restrictions in NSW for quite a while, as well as between Sydney and Victoria and that the virus is not that widespread among people in Sydney. He added, It s a worry none of these women have been to Sydney in the last two to three weeks. If it isn t related to Sydney then how did it get here?
MORE WORRIED ABOUT MELBOURNE THAN SYDNEY Prof Collignon said until those links could all be pinned down, there was a possibility the Victoria outbreak may have come from somewhere other than NSW. In some ways, I m a little more concerned by the cases in Melbourne than Sydney, he said. That it s from NSW is a presumption at the moment and that s why we need genomic testing given there s been restrictions in NSW for quite a while, as well as between Sydney and Victoria and that the virus is not that widespread among people in Sydney. He added, It s a worry none of these women have been to Sydney in the last two to three weeks. If it isn t related to Sydney then how did it get here?
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HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - The sudden re-emergence of Covid-19 in places with the world s best records for handling the pandemic is sending a discouraging message to health officials: Strategies to fully snuff out the virus don t work as a long-term solution, and even the most successful places can never let down their guard.
On the same day, Thailand saw 427 new cases, a staggering jump for a country that as recently as September had gone 100 days without a domestic infection. Unfortunately, in countries that have got really low levels of virus and may well have eliminated it, it s so easy to come back, said professor Peter Collignon, a clinical medicine expert at the Australian National University Medical School in Canberra who has advised the country on virus mitigation.