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Airborne transmission risk of COVID-19 sparks calls for Australia to update national guidelines on air quality
May 10, 2021
Brent chats with Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists president Kate Cole who explains the World Health Organisation’s decision to change their advice on airborne transmission of COVID 19 and why it is so important for Australian officials to take note to get our hotel quarantine system to be at the optimal level of safety.
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Kate Cole is an Engineer and Certified Occupational Hygienist who has worked in the construction industry for almost two decades on projects in Australia, Hong Kong and the USA. With degrees in Science, Engineering and Occupational Hygiene, Kate works to develop systems and governance processes to ensure that “health” is managed with the same amount of focus as “safety”.
AMA, experts attack government failure to accept airborne spread
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Leading infection-control experts say they are frustrated and angry about a federal government panelâs reluctance to accept the dangers of airborne spread of COVID-19, warning it is putting frontline workers and the community at risk.
A controversial recommendation from the Australian governmentâs Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG) allows surgical masks with protective eyewear to be used in the routine care of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, and those in quarantine, rather than fitted N95 masks.
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Delayed N95 mask fit-testing at Victoria s coronavirus quarantine hotels rings alarm bells
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Several certified fit testers tell the ABC it will take a few weeks to have all the staff earmarked to received N95 masks correctly fitted.
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The Victorian government has not started rolling out professionally fitted N95 masks to all hotel quarantine workers, despite fears it was one of the key protocol gaps that allowed the virus to escape the system and send Melbourne into a five-day lockdown.
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But so far, authorities haven t started rolling out professionally fitted N95 masks