Australia’s coronavirus pandemic plan: mass vaccinations and stadium quarantine

A pandemic could last up to 10 months with 40% of the workforce sidelined by illness or caring for family in worst-case scenario.

Australian evacuees from Wuhan arrive at the Manigurr-ma village in Darwin, 9 February 2020
Australian evacuees from Wuhan arrive at the Manigurr-ma village in Darwin. Plans for any coronavirus pandemic include quarantine in secure sites such as Manigurr-ma or sports stadia. Photograph: Helen Orr/AAP

Governments may order mass vaccinations of entire suburbs, cities or groups of people; sports stadia may be sequestered as quarantine sites; and police could be ordered to guard critical medical supplies under Australia’s pandemic health plans.

Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/australias-coronavirus-pandemic-plan-mass-vaccinations-and-stadium-quarantine

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