Canberra, xinhua, april 8(xinhua)-- as of 15:00 local time on april 8th (13:00 beijing time), australia added 105 confirmed cases within 24 hours, a cumulative total of 6013 cases; new death cases 5 cases, a cumulative total of 50 cases.
Australian federal health minister hunter said at a news conference that the daily growth rate of confirmed cases in australia has dropped to about 2% in recent days, but is still in the "suppression stage" to deal with the epidemic, need to continue various epidemic prevention measures, consolidate results, tracking the source of infection to eliminate community transmission.
Hunter gave a negative response when the media asked whether to consider gradually relaxing epidemic prevention measures to give the community some immunity to the virus. He said :" To achieve group immunization, according to the best advice we have received, about 60 per cent of the population, or 15 million people and rehabilitation. If 1 per cent of them were killed, it would be a catastrophic loss of human life. "
Hunt also announced at the conference that 11 million masks will be distributed to front-line medical staff starting today. He also expressed the need to further strengthen the protection of health-care personnel, as there had recently been "very disturbing cases ", including attacks or threat of health-care personnel and deliberate coughing of health-care personnel, some of which were in violation of criminal law and would be subject to law sanctions.