Read the transcript of the press conference given by Professor Michael Kidd, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, about coronavirus (COVID-19) on 2 May 2020. MICHAEL KIDD: My name is Professor Michael Kidd, Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Principal Medical Advisor with the Department of Health in Canberra.
Here’s todays update as of 3pm there are 6, 783 people in Australia who have been diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. Tragically, 93 people have lost their lives to COVID-19.
There were 16 new cases in the previous 24 hours. At the moment we have 84 people in hospital, 28 people in intensive care units and 21 people on ventilators.