{"id":38104,"date":"2020-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/professor-forecasts-australias-coronavirus-peak\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:00:00","slug":"professor-forecasts-australias-coronavirus-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/professor-forecasts-australias-coronavirus-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Forecasts Australia\u2019s Coronavirus Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Australia\u2019s COVID-19 epidemic is forecast to peak in two weeks\u2019 time with a total of 8000 to 10,000 cases, University of Sydney modelling shows.<\/h3>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">According to The Advertiser:<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<blockquote><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">If 90 per cent of the population adopts social distancing, the spread of COVID-19 in Australia could be controlled by July 2020, said University of Sydney Professor Mikhail Prokopenko.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cThe model updated with most recent data shows that Australia is very close to the incidence peak, and in two weeks\u2019 time may be approaching the prevalence peak,\u201d Professor Propenko said.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cOur research shows that if we continue with current social distancing measures the total number of people who will contract COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic in Australia could be about 8,000 \u2013 10,000 people,\u201d he said.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The research predicts the number of new daily cases will begin to steadily reduce from now on however, the number of all \u201cactive\u201d cases may keep rising until mid-April, and then start to slowly decline.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Last week professor Propenko warned unless 8 in ten Australians adopted isolation measures staying at home except for a once a week supermarket trip it would be hard to control the virus.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">He said if 80 per cent of Australians complied with social distancing rules the virus could be contained within three months.<\/span>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Coronavirus<\/a>: PM Scott Morrison gives national update <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AsjDL7DHSM\">https:\/\/t.co\/AsjDL7DHSM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Advertiser (@theTiser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theTiser\/status\/1245910315864166401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s COVID-19 epidemic is forecast to peak in two weeks\u2019 time with a total of 8000 to 10,000 cases, University of Sydney modelling shows. &nbsp; According to The Advertiser: &nbsp; If 90 per cent of the population adopts social distancing, the spread of COVID-19 in Australia could be controlled by July 2020, said University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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