Protest at a safe distance to avoid super-spreaders

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 June Protest at a safe distance to avoid super-spreaders Protest at a safe distance to avoid super-spreaders 08/06/2020 | 4 MINS As life starts to return to normal but the threat of COVID-19 remains, Professor Jon Watson, Executive Dean of LIT's Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, looks at how we balance what we want to do and what we think is important with the health risk to individuals and the State as a whole. His comments follow a spate of protests both locally and worldwide over inequality, human rights and democracy. He warns that Australia cannot afford to become complacent and says big crowds still pose a significant risk and have the potential to cause ΓÇ£devastatingΓÇ¥ levels of virus spread. In COVID pandemic times, can you protest safely and support an important cause without increasing the risk to your own individual health from COVID-19 or to the health and safety of the State as a whole? How can you do this? We should all have the right to protest peacefully. However, at present we know that there is still a risk from

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 June Protest at a safe distance to avoid super-spreaders Protest at a safe distance to avoid super-spreaders 08/06/2020 | 4 MINS As life starts to return to normal but the threat of COVID-19 remains, Professor Jon Watson, Executive Dean of LIT's Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, looks at how we balance what we want to do and what we think is important with the health risk to individuals and the State as a whole.

His comments follow a spate of protests both locally and worldwide over inequality, human rights and democracy.

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