‘We are at a critical point’: Urgent calls for people to properly self-quarantine The GP overseeing Victoria’s first GP-led hospital in the home for COVID-19 patients has urged people to take quarantine guidelines seriously.
Immediate coronavirus testing kit supplies guaranteed: Govt But the personal protective equipment required to conduct such tests is being rationed ‘at every level of distribution’.
Worried about children and coronavirus? Here are some strategies GPs Dr Wendy Burton and Dr Kat McLean provide some tips and resources amid the ongoing outbreak.
So you have been asked to self-isolate or quarantine. What now? GPs Dr Wendy Burton and Dr Kat McLean write about what coronavirus-affected people can expect if they have to go into isolation or quarantine.
Quarantined GPs able to work with new telehealth item numbers GPs forced to self-isolate will still be able to provide essential healthcare services by using the new telehealth MBS item numbers.
RACGP President calls for coronavirus clarity Dr Harry Nespolon wants the Government ‘to be very clear’ about general practice’s role in responding to coronavirus.
‘No longer possible’ to stop imported coronavirus cases A doctor in NSW has contracted the virus after treating a patient who had recently arrived from Iran, marking the first human-to-human transmission within Australia.