Focus on testing

THE ABC news reported last week that over one per cent of the Australian population of 26 million (which equates to 260,000 people) were tested for Covid-19.
When you take PNG’s case, we had 29,000 international travellers of both citizens and non-citizens within the Covid-19 outbreak period to lockdown on March 22.
It requires one per cent of the sample population amounting to 2,900 showing possible symptoms to be tested.
Yet it was reported that only 88 were tested.
My prediction is the virus is here already.
The preventative measures and symptomatic treatments including other factors such as environment and stronger natural body immune system of many individuals and prayers had contained it to some extent in the absence of testing.
One challenge is that all frontline people will require one set of personal protective equipment (PPE) per suspect and this could be an expensive exercise.
That’s why the rapid response team were unable to test a large sample of 2,900 people.
There is a threat of cross infection among normal health workers in other non Covid-19 areas.
We need medical experts on disease control to shed some light on those concern.

Concerned NCD