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Scott Morrison’s announcement of a special national cabinet meeting to discuss the UK strain is particularly interesting given the case of the paramedic in Western Australia who transferred a Covid-19 patient from hotel quarantine to hospital recently.
WA health authorities are expected to provide further details later this evening about the paramedic, whose patient had recently arrived from the UK.
Read the original article at The Guardian