The Australian Defence Force, working together with a number of other state and federal agencies, has helped lower the spread of the CCP virus in the northwest area of Tasmania. Strategies of stricter policing, higher volume testing as well as a joint operation to reopen North West Regional Hospital (NSRH)—where an outbreak occurred—has seen the spread of the virus ease.
Speaking at a press conference on April 19, Premier Peter Gutwein said that the government’s actions to quarantine thousands of people, close hospitals, increase testing, and aggressively trace contact seemed to be having the desired effect.
