'We're saying to Victoria: please listen to the calls and the cries of your people”. 9News
Health Minister Greg Hunt has taken a swipe at Victoria's COVID-19 restrictions, saying "isolation and lockdowns are what you do when everything else has failed".
"The targets have to be real, the thresholds have to be achievable and the measures have to be sustainable, and that means that we can have a better, faster pathway with strong contact tracing." "We're saying to Victoria: please listen to the calls and the cries of your people, the population who are saying 'why can't we do what NSW has done' and not to demand zero cases from 14 or 28 days."Mr Hunt said Australians can expect COVID-19 vaccines within the first months of 2021 if they're proven to be safe.
"Subject to the clinical trials and subject to the effectiveness approvals and subject to the safety regulator and our medical expert panel, we're looking to receive the first of those vaccines in the first quarter of next year," Mr Hunt said.He said it was the federal government's responsibility to make sure any vaccine made available to Australians was safe.
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