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Posts about coronavirus:
5 Mental Health Struggles Made Worse by the Pandemic
I first found out about the virus from my oncologist. He rushed in from the airport that morning for our regular check-up.
Coviu Success Story: Making healthcare accessible to all
Private Health Funds Announce Access to Tele-physiotherapy
PHA, the Australian private health insurance industry’s peak representative body, currently oversees 24 health funds and 97% of all Australian's covered by private health insurance.
MBS Telehealth Items Now Available to ALL Australians
Universal telehealth rebates have finally arrived in Australia in what Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared “is a decade's worth of work in a matter of days.”
New MBS Telehealth Items Available To Help Fight Coronavirus
However, the everyday Australian is excluded from these rebates.
Keeping Healthy People Safe During the Coronavirus Outbreak
The Australian Government has recently activated its Coronavirus emergency plan, treating the virus as a pandemic. Currently, there are an estimated 95 000 cases of the virus globally, spreading across 84 countries. As of 5th March, there have been 52 cases and one death confirmed in Australia alone.
Is Telehealth Key to Containing Coronavirus?
The World Health Organisation has declared the spread of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/COVID-19) a global emergency, following its appearance in China late last year. As of February 12, over 45 000 cases and 1,100 deaths have been confirmed in mainland China alone, surpassing the toll from the SARS epidemic of 2002-3.