Coronavirus Australia: Labor calls for mass events to be cancelled and schools closed

Australia should immediately close schools and cancel mass events, the federal opposition has said, arguing the “public health emergency” requires urgent, even “draconion” action.

Shadow cabinet minister Bill Shorten said Australia needed to implement social distancing “not in weeks and months but in days”.

“The only way to make sure this pandemic is not worse than it otherwise could be is to have more drastic social distancing measures,” he told Sky News.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-australia-labor-calls-for-mass-events-to-be-cancelled-and-schools-closed

Labor has called for enforced social distancing – the closure of schools, universities, workplaces and cancelling of mass events.

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