Tasmania bans visits to hospitals

A health care worker holds a surgery mask..Surgery and respirator masks shortage in Australia due to the Covid-19 outbreak. (Photo by Florent Rols / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

A health care worker holds a surgery mask..Surgery and respirator masks shortage in Australia due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Source: Sipa USA Florent Rols / SOPA Images/Sipa

Visits to Tasmanian hospitals will be banned under new social distancing measures.


Exceptions will be made for people visiting their partners at the birth of a child, parents visiting dependent children who are sick and for "compassionate and end-of-life reasons".


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