The Prime Minister has stressed the need to reach this key vaccination target to ‘start saying goodbye’ to lockdowns.
“We start saying goodbye to at 70 per cent, and they become basically pretty much a thing of the past when we hit 80 per cent,” Mr Morrison told 4BC on Monday.
Under phase B, Australia would transition away from lockdowns, and restrictions would ease significantly for vaccinated people.Head of Australia’s Covid-19 response, Lieutenant General John Frewen, echoed Mr Morrison, stressing the importance of the 70 per cent vax target to Sky News on Monday.
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