Health minister Mark Butler says focus will be on future needs, not looking back at rights and wrongs of former government
Mark Butler has asked former health department secretary Jane Halton to review Australia’s Covid vaccine deals in light of emerging virus variants.Mark Butler has asked former health department secretary Jane Halton to review Australia’s Covid vaccine deals in light of emerging virus variants.
“Also what supplies we currently have in country, whether they are adequate for our needs, or potentially even surplus to some of the needs we have.”The finance minister, Katy Gallagher, is among Labor members who have called for a royal commission into the former government’s handling of the Covid pandemic.
Australia recorded 38,265 Covid cases and 60 deaths on Thursday, according to data tracking website CovidLive.
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