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
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.
She slowly makes eye contact with the camera and gasps for air as a message reads: “COVID-19 can affect anyone. Stay home. Get tested. Book your vaccination.”
Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly said the Federal Government had commissioned the ad because of the intensifying outbreak in NSW.
