16 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Government experts missing important data

From Morning Report, 7:17 am on 16 April 2020

Two top pandemic advisers to the Government say they have not seen crucial Covid-19 data, and some other data is weak, with five days to go till a decision on lockdown.

Epidemiologist Michael Baker says the data he needs to see to be confident of going to Level 3 may not exist yet.

Physicist professor Shaun Hendy says the testing data he is using has improved this week and is solid, but the contact tracing data is not.

Phil Pennington reports.