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Brett Sutton and Jeannette Young reveal the pressure of handling the coronavirus pandemic
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Brett Sutton and Jeannette Young spoke about being Chief Health Officers during the deadly pandemic.
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Victoria s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has opened up about the mental toll of shepherding the state through its coronavirus second wave and the heavy burden of knowing more people would die.
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Professor Sutton acknowledged there were pretty significant struggles and that he spoke to a psychologist
He told a podcast he still got torn apart by decisions he knew would negatively affect people s lives
Aged care homes and hospitals will be closed to non-essential visitors in Greater Brisbane for the next three days after a doctor tested positive to Covid-19.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the new restrictions on Saturday after a doctor at Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Brisbane, returned a positive result.
The junior medic had assessed two patients who had the more-deadly UK variant of the virus on Wednesday before she tested positive on Friday, and genomic testing is underway to confirm whether the doctor has the same strain.
Aged care homes and hospitals will be closed to non-essential visitors in Greater Brisbane for the next three days after a doctor tested positive to Covid-19. Pictured: The Morning After cafe has been closed after a positive case visited it
For Palaszczuk, 51, and her fellow State premiers - Gladys Berejiklian, Dan Andrews, Mark McGowan et al - the real-life COVID-19 contagion has meant making myriad complex decisions, sometimes on the fly, which affect their constituent s lives and livelihoods. It has also meant fronting up to press conferences day after day to deliver the good and bad news about those decisions, and the weight of all that can be found in Berejiklian s furrowed brow or Andrews increasingly harried countenance at those daily, media briefings. For Palaszczuk, sitting in her office and pouring tea from a Premieral pot, it can also be found in her candid admission that at one stage last year she considered walking away .
Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) crowded capital, Port Moresby, is the epicenter of the country’s latest COVID-19 outbreak.
The city recorded just five cases for all of January and 124 for last month. However, 108 cases have been confirmed in the first four days of this month as community transmission accelerated.
The country has reported only 1,492 confirmed cases for the entire COVID-19 pandemic, but the actual caseload is believed to be many times higher.
Fewer than 48,000 tests have been conducted across the country of nearly 9 million people since the beginning of the pandemic, and, in many remote parts of the country,