NSW RFS HOSTS THE STATE’S COVID-19 RESPONSE The State Operations Centre at NSW RFS Headquarters spent six months as the focal point for the multi-agency response to the 2019/20 bush fire season. Less than a month after the fire season ended, the same room was again full of busy people working on a statewide emergency – this time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since COVID-19 arrived on our shores at the start of the year, more than 4,000 people in NSW have caught the virus and tragically 55 people, at time of writing, have died.
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Operations Centre, functioning as the State Health Emergency Operations Centre.
In an extraordinary undertaking by NSW Health, more than 2.8 million people in the state have been tested for COVID-19.
The 2019/20 fire season highlighted the value of the Centre as a space that could easily house hundreds of staff from multiple agencies, enable these staff to coordinate an emergency response and also function
The multi-agency effort to contain COVID-19 has been run out of the NSW RFS State
Below: The State Health Emergency Operations Centre in action in March.
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