Graphic COVID-19 advert urges Sydney to lock down

'It is meant to be graphic; it is meant to push the message home,' says Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly
Geir O'Rourke Australian Associated Press
Coronavirus ad
A still from the new ad.

A “graphic” COVID-19 advertisement will air on Sydney television screens telling people to stay home during the city’s current outbreak.

In the short TV ad, a young woman struggles to breathe in a hospital bed as her ventilator beeps.