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.

A still from the new ad.
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.