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Doctors from the Royal Darwin Hospital have issued an urgent plea for people to stay home amid fears the Northern Territory’s health system won’t be able to cope with a major coronavirus outbreak.

The NT hospital system essentially always operates at maximum capacity regardless of the current COVID-19 outbreak, as it is constantly dealing with issues faced disproportionally by indigenous people

such as diabetes and heart disease. These underlying conditions make people more susceptible if they are infected with coronavirus, particularly in remote indigenous communities. Image: News Corp Australia

 

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is that code for, some groups troops have landed, and they don't want them spotted, moving ashore and spreading out?

When are they going to think of their patients & start Hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine treatments being used successfully South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, India, France, Bahrain, Belgium, Italy & USA? Some in Australia starting to use. Time to Save lives.

The virus doesn't like heat so they say.

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