Among hospitals and health workers there was a sense of galvanising and preparing for Covid-19 as the date for the Western Australia border reopening loomed, according to the president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Omar Khorshid.
“It takes something to be really on the horizon for you to understand how urgent it is to actually prepare,” Khorshid, a Perth-based orthopaedic surgeon, said. “One of the good things about the 5 February date was it focused the health system’s collective mind on getting ready. You could finally see some action.”
