The Health Minister has lashed calls for the Covid-19 booster shot wait time to be reduced.
On Thursday, Mr Albanese called for Australia to “learn some lessons” from other countries struggling with the Omicron variant and reduce the wait time for the booster shot from five months to four.But Mr Hunt slammed the Labor leader for his comments, insisting Mr Albanese was politicising ATAGIs health advice on the booster shot.
Greg Hunt lashed Anthony Albanese for calling for the Covid-19 booster shot wait time to be reduced. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty Earlier on Thursday, Mr Albanese had claimed the Morrison government was shutting down Covid-19 testing hubs.But the Health Minister hit back insisting the claim was blatantly untrue.
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