Pandemic response shrinks as COVID-19 pressure builds - The Age

The Victorian government is dismantling its central pandemic bureaucracy at the same time the health system confronts a deadly surge of COVID-19 and influenza inflections.

The pandemic is not going to miraculously end on the 12th of July, Foley said. At the start of this year, about 3000 staff were contracted to COVID-19 Response, the pandemic bureaucracy led until re… [+4843 chars]

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