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.
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.
In response, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has urged patients to stop visiting their GPs with coronavirus symptoms, while doctors and pharmacists have been asked to step up measures to keep symptomatic people away.
On Thursday, the premier warned that many of the recent cases who were infectious while in the community had visited clinics and pharmacies for health advice.
