Scott Morrison announces plans to restart sport

The road out begins: Scott Morrison announces plans to restart sport and get Aussies back to work as the nation prepares for life with coronavirus

• Health experts will release guidance on how to make community sport safe 
• There will also be principles that businesses can follow make workplaces safe
• National Cabinet asked for recommendations for relaxing distancing measures 
• Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19

By Charlie Moore, Political Reporter For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 04:21 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 04:53 BST, 24 April 2020

Scott Morrison is working on plans to restart sport and get Australians back to work, he announced today after a national cabinet meeting.

The Prime Minister said health experts will release guidance on how to make professional and community sport safe.

‘Community sport is such an important part of our way of life here in Australia, and these principles can help guide decisions by states and territories in the future,’ he said.

The Prime Minister said health experts will release guidance on how to make professional and community sport safe. Pictured: Volleyball on Bondi Beach

Mr Morrison said experts will also release principles that businesses can follow make workplaces safe to return to.

The guidance will advise what workers should do if one of their colleagues gets coronavirus. 

‘We also agreed National COVID-19 safe workplace principles. This is all about getting Australians back to work,’ the Prime Minister said. 

Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the National Cabinet has asked experts to provide ‘recommendations for gently, carefully, cautiously relaxing distancing measures’. 

Scott Morrison is working on plans to restart sport and get Australians back to work, he announced today

This could involve relaxing restrictions on the number of people allowed to gather in public,’ he said.

Professor Murphy also announced that every state and territory now has the capacity to test everyone who has coronavirus symptoms.

He also praised the government’s contact tracing app which is due to be rolled out next week, 

‘We’re putting in place the world’s best testing and public health and surveillance regime before we relax any measures,’ he said when asked if he feared a second wave of the virus erupting in Australia.

‘No Australian wants to see hundreds of people dying a day from coronavirus. 

‘We are not prepared to see that, and that’s why we are being so cautious and we are putting in these extraordinary surveillance measures. 

‘We want to be testing 40,000, 50,000 Australians a day if necessary.’ 

 

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