Four days before Christmas, Sydney is battling to contain an outbreak of COVID-19, writes Professor Raina MacIntyre, the head of the Biosecurity Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Medicine.
Forty new cases today may become 120 new cases by Christmas Day. Half of them will have no symptoms and the rest will have mild symptoms and carry on as normal.
That makes Christmas a ticking time bomb.
If you’ve had your breakfast and you can stomach some hard, cold facts, you can read Professor Raina MacIntyre’s full article here.
A COVID alert sign at Sydney’s Dee Why beach.Credit:James Brickwood
