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Private hospital operator Healthscope says it will support the NSW government’s proposal to mandate vaccinations for health staff.
“Our patients and the community expect healthcare workers to be vaccinated because we care for vulnerable people.”Don’t bank on being able to get Pfizer in a fortnight: Victorian PremierVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he wouldn’t bank on the Pfizer vaccine being available to people between 16 and 39 in the next fortnight.
At Friday’s COVID update, Daniel Andrews said more COVID-19 testing sites had been stood up in the area. “The only major change that I would anticipate in terms of restrictions is if the health experts say there’s additional local government areas which need to go down into those areas of concern. Or, on the flip side, if a particular local government area responds well in terms of the case numbers, we can take those areas out.”“We have nothing left on the field, and this has to be an approach which is balanced by all the mental health concerns; all the other issues we need to balance,” she said.
He said Victoria was “right on the edge” of the COVID situation getting away from the state, and the Delta variant was so wildly infectious that it would “find every breach of every rule, and potentially spread because of that”.“I know everyone wants it to be over. I know that. I understand that, but it isn’t,” Mr Andrews said during Friday’s COVID update.
Mr Andrews added that 15 people were in hospital in Victoria with COVID, six were in the intensive care unit and one person was on a ventilator.Australia will commit about $5 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ appeal to assist those trying to leave Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Marise Payne said there are “people in their thousands” crowing around the airport to escape and there have been injuries.
The Premier said the advice she received from NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant this morning was that around 29 centres had been implicated by exposures. The police officer is based at Knox Police Station, and a Victoria Police spokeswoman said the office area will be professionally cleaned with personnel asked not to attend during this time.
He described the situation as “chaotic” and operations beyond the Airport are “not possible” and doing so would put Australian Defence Force personnel at great risk without commensurate benefit.Mr Morrison said all states and territories are seeking to support the effort in any way they can, including through quarantining, and the situation would be discussed at National Cabinet.
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