Media release

From: Australian Science Media Centre

*Recording now available*

As COVID-19 cases continue in Victoria and NSW, a lot has been said about genomic testing; including that it could link 99 per cent of Victoria's second wave of cases back to hotel quarantine. But how does it work, what can it tell us about different COVID-19 strains and how can it be used to control the pandemic in Australia?

Ask these questions and more by joining us for our Q&A background briefing. There will be no specific presentations just an open forum in which journalists can have their questions directly answered by experts.

Speakers:

• Dr Rebecca Rockett is a virologist at the University of Sydney’s Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity at Westmead Hospital. She is involved with genomic testing for NSW Health Pathology
• Professor Catherine Bennett is Chair in Epidemiology at Deakin University in Victoria

Briefing details:

Date: Thu 20 August 2020
Start Time: 11:00am AEST
Duration: 1 hour 
Venue: Online

This briefing was made possible with the assistance of the Google News Initiative.