BREAKING: Lawyers defending the Andrews government against a challenge to Victoria's curfew policy have said they will withhold documents that reveal why a call was made to extend the curfew. coronavirus COVID19 COVID19Vic covid19victoria
: The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon announce new, higher standards for an emergency authorisation of a coronavirus vaccine, lowering the chances that a vaccine might be cleared before the November 3 election, according to a US media report.
Polls show that the politicisation of the race to develop a vaccine is taking its toll. Pew Research Centre recently reported that the percentage of people who said they would get the vaccine if it were available today has dropped to just over 50 per cent; it was 72 per cent in May. When it last appeared on August 26 there were 3338 active cases across 52 of the state's 79 local government areas. A dozen municipalities, at that time, had more than 100 active cases.
In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Monday, Dr Giles said she made the decision to continue the curfew policy because, according to information she received, “the reduction of case numbers was due to the stage four restrictions being imposed”. Lawyers for the government told the court on Tuesday that they may provide the information in the form of a sworn affidavit instead.
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