Australian
Government
Response to
COVID19
• As there are no medicines or vaccines
for COVID - 19 at this time, Australia's
recovery from the crisis is solely
dependent upon public health
interventions to control the disease.
• These fall into six areas:
• identifying cases
• isolating cases
• tracing and quarantining
contacts of cases
• improving hygiene
• restricting travel
• social distancing
• 18
th
March – first social distancing
restrictions come into place with limits
on numbers of attendees at non -
essential indoor and outdoor events
• 22
nd
March Mandatory self isolation for all
new arrivals into Australia including forced
stays in hotels for 14 days.
• 27
th
March restrictions of movement
regional locations comes into place
• 30
th
March National Cabinet is held. Tighter
restrictions are put in place with legislation
also being enacted in the States with
regards to penalties for breaches of the
social distancing laws.
•
• 7
th
April – Australian Government releases
its modelling of the impact of COVID19
• https://www.pm.gov.au/media/statement -
update - coronavirus - measures
