NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says further restrictions or harsher lockdowns won't stem the rise in COVID-19 cases
In what she described as a “national emergency”, Ms Berejiklian insisted vaccination was the best chance of combating the rising number of cases but Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was the hard lockdown in Sydney that would be the “key vehicle”.
Ms Berejiklian said it was clear that the case numbers were “not going in the right direction” after more than half of Friday’s cases were not fully isolated while contagious.The Premier made a plea to national cabinet to reconsider any additional vaccines be “brought forward to NSW” and to redirect more first doses of Pfizer to young essential workers at the most at-risk suburbs.
“We discussed and will be confirmed over the next 24 hours the ability for, in NSW state vaccine centres, for them to do greater amounts of first doses by staying within the medical advice, the target advice, which says that second doses of Pfizer can be extended out to six weeks,” Mr Morrison said.“More doses as they’re available will be provided to NSW. We will work with them on that,” Mr Morrison said.
“Every day, people from those local government areas have to go out to work to keep our city going. They are doing critical food production, critical work to keep society functioning, and we are seeing cases introduce the virus into various workplaces,” Dr Chant said. Lieutenant-General John Frewen told the Senate COVID committee on Friday that vaccine supplies were allocated on a per capita basis to the states and there was no surplus stockpile of Pfizer.
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