ANALYSIS: They started the pandemic with opposing philosophical approaches. Now the NSW and Victorian premiers are working together to get children back into school.
. Instead of being kept away from class if they are close contacts of the sick, every child would be allowed into their classroom, as long as they tested negative twice a week.The approach would mark a shift from the TTIQ system of test, trace, isolate and quarantine used for the past two years. It would be replaced by so-called “surveillance testing” – a less stringent but easier-to-scale strategy.
The logistics will not be simple. With about 1.2 million school students enrolled in NSW, 24 million tests would be required just for term one.Both states want to shore up societal immunity before children are back in classrooms.Early in the pandemic, jibes between premiers from rival parties were a common technique to shift attention from domestic problems.
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