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Deputy Chief Medical Officer's press conference about COVID-19 on 16 March

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Read the transcript of the press conference given by Professor Paul Kelly, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, about coronavirus (COVID-19). PAUL KELLY: Thank you very much everyone for coming.

Paul Kelly, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, just giving the daily briefing on the issues that we're facing with the COVID-19 outbreak.

So there were a lot of announcements over the weekend. I was with the Prime Minister at a press conference yesterday, who announced about the various new measures we're putting in place, and this week, it's all about slowing the curve of the epidemic.

So, when we talk about that, we're really doing what we can now whilst we still have only a relatively small number of cases of this infection in Australia to decrease the

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