Prime minister says support will continue until the end of September amid winter Covid wave set to peak in August
The health minister, Mark Butler, argued during the week that emergency payments had to be reconsidered as the pandemic entered the “next phase”.would be infected, health experts, state leaders, unions and others demanded that the measures should be kept in place.Albanese also urged people to get their booster shots, and to talk to their doctors about accessing antivirals. He said the current Covid surge would peak in August, and that mask wearing in crowded indoor areas was highly encouraged.
People should continue to get tested, practise “good respiratory hygiene” and work from home where appropriate, he said.On Friday, the Australian Medical Association national president, Omar Khorshid,“Generally the government has extended the measures we continue to need because the pandemic is still here and affecting us,” he said.
Albanese had come under fire for suggesting sick people should just work from home, a measure that is not available to many employees. He then announced the national cabinet would meet on Monday to consider pandemic support, but on Friday brought the meeting forward to Saturday. Received afternoon briefing from Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly on BA4/5 COVID wave. He will report to National Cabinet tomorrow morning and we will discuss proposals to ensure the vulnerable are protected over coming weeks.Prof Brendan Crabb, from the Burnet Institute, earlier called on the government to endorse a “low Covid” strategy, to keep numbers down to protect the vulnerable, and everyone else.
He told Channel Seven that there had been a mindset that “lots of Covid is OK”, and that had proved to be a “flawed strategy”.
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