Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says that misinformation and disinformation are impacting COVID19Vaccination uptake in areas throughout the state.
, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has asked the sector to try to limit the number of agency staff they use.Her call came after it was revealed a nurse had worked across three sites while infectious with COVID-19, including Wyoming.
“What will happen is [COVID-19] will be a bit like flu eventually,” she said, adding the virus would likely become cyclical and protection would be given through ongoing vaccination. “The virus has been kept out of the Central Coast and other places and parts of Greater Sydney: we’re looking at options [to return students] in a safe way that will be based on health advice at the time.“The two priorities remain for us getting kids back to face-to-face learning and to allow parents or adults to get back to the workplace.”
“We don’t actually think the large supermarkets are a great risk,” she added, noting there was more concern about smaller shops where more crowding may occur. “We need to recognise it and it’s really useful to have that detailed granular information so that we can tailor our engagement to maximise the vaccination coverage in those areas.”“The story for Victoria is that we’ve got very good, very high vaccination coverage again on a per capita basis, doing as well as any of the big states so that’s a good news story,” he said.
“Obviously, once vaccination rates hit 70 per cent and 80 per cent, that is a different proposition,” she said.
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