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, Doherty Institute director Professor Sharon Lewin said that whether the interval between second and third doses was slashed from five months to four depended on a number of factors.“Australia has done incredibly well getting so many people their first two doses.“At the moment there’s a gap of five months to get the third dose. We have to make that really easy for people to access. Certainly you get much better immunity after your third dose.
On the possible expansion of mask mandates around the country, Professor Baxter told Melbourne radio station 3AW that people had to get used to wearing them. The Palaszczuk government will not change its public health response in the face of rapidly rising coronavirus cases, and has instead called on Queenslanders to go “above and beyond” to help prevent Christmas being an Omicron superspreader.Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced last week that masks would be mandated indoors.
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