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Swapping handwashing for sanitizer partly to blame for Victoria outbreak
The Guardian
People using hand sanitizer instead of rather than as well as washing their hands have in part been blamed for an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis in Victoria.
Last month, Victorian health authorities warned that gastroenteritis cases were up four-fold from the five-year average.
Yesterday, the Victoria Department of Health said that viral gastroenteritis was continuing to spread, with 389 outbreaks in childcare and early education centers so far this year an increase of 140 over the previous month.
Victoria’s executive director for communicable disease, Bruce Bolam, said that handwashing with soap and water is still the best personal hygiene method to minimize the chance of spreading the virus.
I am not going to be talking about numbers today, Australia s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly told Australia s Radio National on April 12. This echoed suggestions from the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who had adopted the position that Australia best forget meeting any clear vaccination targets. Having left battling the pandemic to State governments, the Federal government has found itself unable to execute its program, if one dare call it that.
Part of the monumental failings of the government can be put down to its stubbornness in prioritising the use of one vaccine. AstraZeneca was meant to be the vaccine wonder, the Godhead, the miraculous deliverer. CSL, Australia s only vaccine manufacturer, was given the task of producing the majority of 54 million ordered doses at its Broadmeadows factory in Melbourne. Many of those now risk being essentially useless.
Monday, 12 April 2021, 1:03 pm
“I am not going to be talking about numbers today,”
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly told
Australia’s Radio National on April 12. This echoed suggestions
from the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who had
adopted the position that Australia best forget meeting any
clear vaccination targets. Having left battling the pandemic
to State governments, the Federal government has found
itself unable to execute its program, if one dare call it
that.
Part of the monumental failings of the
government can be put down to its stubbornness in
prioritising the use of one vaccine. AstraZeneca was meant
Former top Victorian health bureaucrat Kym Peake joins EY
Apr 6, 2021 â 11.34am
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Australian Tax Office. Prior to this, he was head of cyber security at
NEC. He will take up the position on May 3.
Kym Peake joined EY as a partner in EY Port Jackson Partners after more than five years as secretary of Victoriaâs
Department of Health and Human Services. Ms Peake, 48, left the department in November after facing the stateâs hotel quarantine inquiry. She has previously been a deputy secretary at the Victorian
Department of Premier and Cabinet and at the stateâs former
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.