Speeding up booster shots, requiring people to get three COVID-19 jabs to be considered fully vaccinated and mask mandates are on the cards in a bid to curb Omicron infections:
Victoria reported 1302 additional infections. The state has 406 people in hospital including 81 in intensive care.
It has also opened to fully vaccinated travellers and has scrapped quarantine requirements for arrivals. "The Omicron variant, obviously, creates another dimension to needing to deal with the virus and I think it's going to continue to throw challenges up for us."
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