A spokesman for Far West Local Health District declined to reveal details of the two coronavirus patients in Broken Hill – one of whom"While Broken Hill only has two confirmed cases of COVID-19, one of those cases was acquired in the area but the source of infection has not been found," he said.understands one patient is a female health worker who contracted coronavirus while travelling interstate and self-isolated when she returned to Broken Hill.
The coronavirus pandemic has prompted panic buying of products such as pasta and minced meat in Broken Hill, Mr Bartley said. "The excess buying of toilet paper has happened here as well. Even before there were any cases, Harvey Norman's been selling deep freezes like you wouldn't believe."A firefighter, Mr Bartley said he and his wife, a radiographer, were at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 because of their jobs.
"We later requested the closure of the state’s borders, and the implementation of full lockdown measures to help eradicate the virus rather than 'flattening the curve'," she said. Labor's health spokesman Ryan Park said there had been a rapid spread of COVID-19 in rural communities, with around a quarter of confirmed cases outside of Sydney.
Not such a stretch. The food delivery trucks coming to my rural town are manned by people not wearing PPE. These trucks turn up a few times a week from metropolitan warehouses.
But Sydney remains the Epicentre, especially the North Shore suburbs. Brought in by people from the Cruise ships.