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新冠病毒在澳洲蔓延，现在怎么办？ 澳洲人被要求停止握手，政府部门在考虑停止大型集会。基于昨天澳洲确诊了第一例人传人病例，今天澳洲健康部门人员会开会考虑“社交疏远方法”。之前澳洲只是输入病例。 确诊的人传人病例时悉尼西区一个53岁医生，不知道他怎样被传染的。还有一名41岁女性，她是从伊朗回澳洲确诊男子的亲属（家属家庭传染） 悉尼大学的传染病专家Robert Booy说：这说明新冠病毒的下一步社区传播已经开始。我们只会在澳洲看到越来越多的病例，这只是开始。 The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPCC) 今天会开会讨论是否在澳洲近期要禁止大型聚会。在家办公，学校幼儿园停课，封锁老人院等 也会在讨论内容中。新洲政府已经让学校停止所有出国游学计划。 ANU 大学传染病专家 Peter Collignon说：澳洲已经不可避免新冠病毒进入社会，但我们还是可以避免大型爆发。我们希望这个病毒慢慢释放，而不是大爆发。这样澳洲医疗系统才不会瘫痪。 NSW 新洲卫生部长Brad Hazzard说，现在大家不要握手，互相拍拍后背说hi mate打招呼就可以。 原文链接：https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020 ... -australia/12018688 Print Email Facebook Twitter More Coronavirus COVID-19 has begun spreading in Australia. So, what happens now? As Australians are urged to stop shaking hands to reduce the coronavirus risk, authorities are now considering more extreme prevention measures such as bans on large gatherings. The nation's chief health officers will meet today to consider additional "social distancing" restrictions, after it was revealed Australia had recorded its first cases of human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Previously, the only people with the virus in Australia were those who had contracted it in other countries. One of those infected locally is a 53-year-old doctor from Sydney's west. It is not known how he contracted the virus. The other is a 41-year-old Sydney woman, who is believed to have caught the virus from her brother after he returned from Iran. She, and another relative, had already been quarantined in Sydney's Westmead Hospital. Infectious diseases expert Robert Booy, from the University of Sydney, said the news was concerning but not unexpected. "What it means is that the next phase [of the outbreak] is starting, when ordinary Australian people who haven't travelled anywhere can catch the infection and transmit it to members of their family and community," he said. "We're going to get increasing cases. We've got the start of the epidemic now." Sport, entertainment could be stopped The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPCC) will meet today to decide whether additional protection measures, such as bans on mass gatherings, will be introduced. The AHPCC is made up of all state and territory chief health officers and is chaired by Australia's chief medical officer Brendan Murphy. The committee could choose to enact restrictions such as bans on large sport and entertainment events, and requests for people to work from home. Sources have told the ABC Australians should anticipate changes, including more social distancing measures, to prevent or slow the spread of the virus. The Government's pandemic plan outlines possible measures, including bans on mass gatherings, closures of schools and childcare centres, and lockdowns on aged care homes. The NSW Government has already ordered public schools to cancel any overseas trips planned for term one. 'We shouldn't be defeatist' ANU infectious diseases expert Peter Collignon said more cases in Australia were now almost inevitable, but a massive outbreak could still be stopped. "I think it's likely that we'll get more cases because Iran is a good example where you can have a lot of cases in the community, it's not realised, and then people who come in contact with those people bring it back here and potentially spread it," he said. "But I don't think it's inevitable that we'll have widespread, uncontrolled spread through the community. Professor Booy said if Australians took sensible measures — such as avoiding handshakes and washing hands regularly — any epidemic could be slowed. "What we're hoping to do is to get to a state where the epidemic builds slowly rather than quickly," he said. "If it builds relatively slowly, it means our health services, our GPs, our emergency departments, our hospital wards, our intensive care units can all cope more easily and better with the workload. "If there are fewer cases coming through, they'll get better care, they'll get a better outcome. But if we're swamped with cases as a result of a lot of transmission, it'll make it much harder on the health system and the quality of care will, as a result, go down." Raina Macintyre, who heads the biosecurity program at UNSW's Kirby Institute, said Australia was yet to see the "sustained community transmission" that would cause major concern. "When we talk about sustained community transmission, we're talking about three generations of cases or more," Professor Macintyre said. "So you've got one person, say, who comes back from Iran or China or another country that's having a lot of cases, and they infect one person or a few people, and then those people infect another bunch of people — that's when you start to worry." NSW Health tracking down patients NSW chief medical officer Kerry Chant said it was not known if the infected healthcare worker contracted the disease from a patient. While not divulging his occupation, she said the man would have had contact with people aged over 65. "Our key focus at the moment is to contact staff or patients that may have been close contacts of this gentleman, and do the precautionary things in accordance with the national guidelines," she said. He is in a stable condition in intensive care unit at Sydney's Westmead Hospital. Backslaps should replace handshakes: Minister The new cases prompted the NSW Health Minister, Brad Hazzard, to urge people to pat each other on the back when greeting each other, instead of shaking hands. "At a time when we have a virus that appears to be reasonably active in its endeavours to get into our community … it will be sensible not to be handshaking," he said. "I'm not going to say don't kiss, but certainly you could be exercising a degree of care and caution with whom you choose to kiss. "Other than that, I think we can live an entirely normal life here." Professor Macintyre said avoiding handshakes was sensible. "And the other thing people can do is be meticulous about hand washing and hand hygiene," she said. "Before you eat, wash your hands properly, and when you come home, wash your hands." |
