As our Government ramps up Australia's testing capacity for COVID-19 virus – shipping in 97,000 testing kits – researchers at the Imperial College London are urging Governments to embark on drastic containment and mitigation strategies or risk a "catastrophic epidemic of coronavirus."

The latest analysis comes from a team modelling the spread and impact COVID-19 and whose data are informing current UK government policy on the pandemic.

Guest: Dr Norman Swan, host of RN's Health Report and the Coronacast Podcast