Premier Gladys Berejiklian has rejected the idea NSW will abandon its “zero covid” goal or accept Delta circulating in the community.
During a press conference on Friday, Ms Berejiklian said no country in the world was living with the covid virus with only a 9 per cent vaccination rate.
“If we chose to live with this while the rates of vaccinations are at 9 per cent, we will see thousands and thousands of hospitalisations and deaths.”“The economic impact will be devastating because if you think you can live with this and it goes wild in the community, nobody will be going to a restaurant or a bar when there are thousands and thousands of cases, thousands of deaths, no-one will want to leave their home,” she said.
“What has become clear is we have reached a fork in the road,” one unnamed minister told the newspaper. Hours later, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced 300,000 extra vaccines would be fast-tracked to southwestern Sydney.
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