PPE guidelines under review as health worker infections pass 600
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton is 'open' to mandating extra PPE
The Chief Health Officer in Victoria has conceded current PPE may not be fully protecting doctors, as health worker coronavirus infections continue to escalate.
More than 600 doctors, nurses and other health workers are among the current active cases of COVID-19 in Victoria, compared with 150 two weeks ago.
They include a GP currently in ICU, who is believed to have worked at a testing site and an emergency physician trainee who is seriously ill in a Melbourne hospital.
The state government is yet to make public details of the cases, specifically the extent to which health workers are contracting the infections through their work.
