‘It’s deeply concerning healthcare workers have contracted COVID-19’

Thoughts are with all hospital staff who have tested positive for coronavirus in latest outbreak, says Australasian College for Emergency Medicine president Dr John Bonning
Dr John Bonning
Dr John Bonning.

A doctor is among at least a dozen healthcare workers who have tested positive to COVID-19 in the past week, a situation described by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine as “deeply concerning”.

News that a doctor in one of the acute medical teams at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne has the infection sparked quarantine measures for 15 staff at the hospital.