Businesses can refuse to serve anyone with 'flu-like symptoms'

Business owners can now refuse serve anyone with “flu-like symptoms” under new measures introduced to prevent a second wave of coronavirus transmissions.

The measures have been introduced by Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy, who said businesses can also send staff home if they try to work while sick.

Professor Murphy said people can no longer “soldier on with a cold and a flu-like illness”.

“If one of your colleagues or an employee or a client turns up, you have every right to say ‘go away, I am not going to let you in, I am not going to treat you’, unless you’re a doctor of course,” he said.

The announcement came as Prime Scott Morrison laid out a three-point plan to ease restrictions.

Each stage will last four weeks, with the first set of relaxations allowing restaurants and cafes to open to the public again with a maximum of 10 customers at a time who will be required to have four square metres of personal space each.

Sheridan Randall, 11^th May 2020