Australia now has a total of 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19, following three additional cases of people with direct links to Iran. The latest confirmed case is in Tasmania, a 40 year old man who has recently returned from Iran. This follows the first death of an Australian with COVID-19 infection early yesterday.…
E&OE… Topics: COVID-19 updates; travel bans; GREG HUNT: Joined by the Chief Medical Officer (inaudible) update on coronavirus globally, nationally, and additional responses. At the global level, the number of cases has now exceeded 88,000; that’s diagnosed. Obviously, we recognise that is the formal number, and that in parts of the world…
E&OE… Topics: COVID-19 updates; travel bans; GREG HUNT: Joined by the Chief Medical Officer (inaudible) update on coronavirus globally, nationally, and additional responses. At the global level, the number of cases has now exceeded 88,000; that’s diagnosed. Obviously, we recognise that is the formal number, and that in parts of the world…
The Morrison Government welcomes the appointment of Professor Michael Kidd AM as Principal Medical Advisor to the Department of Health and Professor of Primary Care Reform at The Australian National University. This appointment further strengthens the Government’s focus on delivering major primary health care reforms for the benefit of all Australians. This is…
E&OE… Topics: Government strengthens support for melanoma patients, coronavirus situation update. GREG HUNT: Thank you everybody for joining us here at Frankston Hospital. It’s a hospital I know very well. Not only have many members of my family been treated here, but my mother was a nurse here, my parents met here and…
E&OE… Topics: Coronavirus threat, travel bans ALLISON LANGDON: With Australia recording its first fatality from coronavirus and more cases confirmed every day, the threat of an outbreak appears more imminent than ever. KARL STEFANOVIC: So what is Australia doing to prepare? For more, we’re joined by Health Minister Greg Hunt. Minister, good…
It is with great sadness that the Australian Government notes the death of a 78-year-old man in Western Australia with COVID-19 infection. Our condolences go to his family and friends at this difficult time. The man was one of the Australian citizens from the Diamond Princess whom the Australian Government assisted to depart…
GREG HUNT: Thank you everybody for joining us, I’m joined by Professor Brendan Murphy, the Chief Medical Officer of Australia this afternoon. Under the Prime Minister’s leadership, the National Security Council has met and made decisions to lift the travel advisories for Iran and to impose certain restrictions as a consequence of the spread of…
The start of autumn will bring with it a new sense of hope for over 2,000 Australians with advanced melanoma, with the Morrison Government expanding subsidised access to a breakthrough melanoma treatment option on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from today. On March 1, the current PBS listing of Opdivo® (nivolumab) will be expanded…
E&OE… Topics: COAG Health Council; Coronavirus update; More contraceptive choice for Australian women. NATASHA FYLES: Natasha Fyles, Northern Territory Health Minister and chair of COAG. We’ve had a very cognitive and constructive meeting this morning. The key agenda items have of course been the coronavirus and the Federal Minister and (inaudible) an…