Opinion

Human rights are more important than ever as we tackle COVID-19

By Helen Watchirs
April 3 2020 - 4:30am
Public gatherings of more than two people are currently forbidden in the ACT. Picture: Shutterstock
Public gatherings of more than two people are currently forbidden in the ACT. Picture: Shutterstock

We are in unprecedented times. Or maybe not. In a recent piece on medieval plague tracts, The New York Review of Books reported that when the plague was ravaging 14th-century Europe a physician described it as inaudita - literally, unheard of.

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