The current stay-at-home orders were due to end on September 2 but that is looking unlikely, Chief Minister Andrew Barr said. COVID19 9News
Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the vaccine program was "going as fast as it can" but warned levels are far too low to protect the community as a whole.Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the vaccine program was "going as fast as it can" but warned levels are far too low to protect the community as a whole.Today's figures are a drop from yesterday's 30 new infections.
"Now is not the time to be significantly easing restrictions however, some changes are being considered and these changes will seek to balance risk across the community," he said."A good indicator is no-one infectious in the community for any period of time and no mystery cases," he said."We will come out of this gently, week by week, as we continue to get our vaccination rate up.
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