GP clinics, chemists ‘biggest’ source of virus transmission: Sydney

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant says she is working with doctors and pharmacists to tighten measures to prevent symptomatic patients attending.
Chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant
Chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant. Photo: AAP

Medical centres and pharmacies have become the “biggest” potential source of community transmission in the current Sydney COVID-19 outbreak.

Twenty seven pharmacies and 13 medical centres in Greater Sydney have been identified as COVID-19 exposure sites in the past two weeks.