23 Aug 2021

High number of covid cases in young NSW children

From Nights, 10:21 pm on 23 August 2021

More than 200 New South Wales children aged nine and under, were diagnosed with Covid-19 at the weekend. To find out what led to so many children being diagnosed and to answer your questions on Covid-19 in the wider Sydney area, Marylouise McLaws, Professor of Epidemiology with Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control at the University of New South Wales, joins Bryan to discuss what's happening with the Delta variant there.

Portrait of UNSW Epidemiologist Professor Mary-Louise McLaws who has decided not to download the COVIDSafe Application over fears the data could be accessed by the United States Government. Photographed at her home in Sydney on May 2, 2020. Coronavirus  Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Photo: Dominic Lorrimer