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‘We are containing the virus’: Australia has NO remaining coronavirus hotspots but is ‘not out of the woods yet’, says Health Minister Greg Hunt
Australia no longer has any coronavirus hotspots but Health Minister Greg Hunt has warned the country is ‘not out of the woods yet’.
Mr Hunt said the removal of any defined hotspot around the country following just one case of community transmission in the past three days shows the nation is ‘containing the virus’.
‘There are no remaining hotspot definitions,’ Mr Hunt said Sunday.
‘Of course, inevitably, there will be days of new cases. There will be days where there may be a requirement for Commonwealth hotspot definition to be re-introduced.
Health Minister Greg Hunt (pictured) said Australia no longer having any coronavirus hotspots shows the nation is ‘containing the virus’
‘But they’ll be done on the basis of… cases.’
Mr Hunt said Australia’s response to the threat of the deadly virus ‘had been tested and tested again and continues to function’.
‘We’ve had outbreaks in South Australia recently, in New South Wales, in Queensland. And in Victoria,’ he said.
‘All of them have responded magnificently in partnership with the Commonwealth and in partnership with the Australian public.’
Mr Hunt said while numbers of community transmission of coronavirus could fluctuate in the coming days and weeks, Australia is in a much better position than the rest of the world.
There have been 2.2million cases worldwide in the past three days, with 47,000 deaths.
‘Although what we face is challenging… and disrupting, the results in Australia are light years away and a universe way from what we’re seeing in so much of the rest of the world,’ he said.
The one case of community transmission was recorded in New South Wales on Saturday.
Mr Hunt said while Australia had experienced ‘immense achievement and progress’, challenges remain.
‘We’re not out of the woods because the world isn’t out of the woods,’ he said.
And our challenges remain always, whilst there is a disease that is abroad in the rest of the world, but Australians are doing incredibly well.
Our systems are holding up and over the course of that time, those three days, there have been over 160,000 tests conducted in Australia.’
More to come.
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