The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is in jeapodary as boats are forced to pull out as their sailors are caught up in a coronavirus outbreak on the Northern Beaches.
Sydney s Covid-19 outbreak has grown to 28 cases after testing on Thursday identified 10 more cases linked to a cluster on the city s Northern Beaches.
Boats have had to pull out of the famous race because anyone from Sydney s Northern Beaches is banned from entering Tasmania.
The iconic Sydney to Hobart race is in jeapodary as boats have had to pull out of the annual event due to a growing coronavirus cluster on the Northern Beaches
Written by Kate McDonald on
17 December 2020.
In September, the federal government announced a new $2 billion COVID-19 health measures package that extended the temporary MBS item numbers for telehealth for a further six months. It also included an extension to the subsidised home delivery of medicines measure, as well as continued free access to the Healthdirect video conferencing system for GPs and SMS messages for electronic prescriptions.
The special arrangement for image-based prescriptions was also extended, as was the end-date for software with fast-tracked (FT) eScript capability. Towards the end of the year, vendors such as MMEx began rolling out ffully conformant versions, and by December, Health Minister Greg Hunt was announcing that item numbers for telehealth would be kept permanently.