Amid pressure from business to cut isolation rules, the Prime Minister says medical advice is 30 per cent of people are still infectious five days after getting sick.
, saying 30 per cent of people were still infectious after that period.
The isolation rules have forced thousands of otherwise healthy people to stay home. While states have eased the restrictions for workers in a list of critical industries so they can go to their jobs, subject to daily testing, other sectors such as retail and hospitality have been excluded. “Some of those peak pressures [in respect to caseloads] we’re seeing, we’re seeing some relief, it’s not where we want it to be, but the trajectory is right.
“It is not the medical advice for rapid antigen testing to be a requirement for a safe workplace broadly across the Australian economy.” he said. The PM also signalled that controversial government backbencher George Christensen could be sacked from his job chairing a parliamentary committee over anti-vaccination comments.Mr Christensen’s podcast advocated that parents should not get their children vaccinated against coronavirus, which Mr Morrison said was a “dangerous” view.
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