How GPs coped with compulsory isolation

Sydney-based GP Dr Ahmad Hasanien 'tried to look for the positives' after a COVID-19 case shut down the practice where he worked
Dr Ahmad Hasanien.
Dr Ahmad Hasanien.

It just took one patient attending for an iron infusion to close a general practice in Sydney’s south west and send eight staff and numerous patients into isolation for a fortnight.

The two GPs, two nurses, a phlebotomist, practice manager and reception staff at Doctors @ Liverpool were confined to their homes in early July to wait out their quarantine period as the city’s latest coronavirus outbreak gathered pace.