NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is leading the charge to wind back stay-at-home-orders, while Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews remains cautious.
Australia’s two most populous states are divided over whether to reduce the nation’s week-long COVID isolation period, with NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet leading the charge to wind back the days people must stay at home, while Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews remains cautious about any change.
Albanese on Monday signalled an end to mandatory isolation may be on the horizon, saying national cabinet was “looking at as well in the longer term about what the nature of restrictions are”, noting that daily case numbers were falling. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews: “I would not want to do anything that made the job of our health professionals harder.”Hayes said hospital staff shortages had been exacerbated by the need to furlough workers and that many were “looking at how they support their families”.
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said while the state’s hospitals were still grappling with COVID-19, “the number of staff furloughed has dropped dramatically in recent weeks”.so they could discuss the views of their respective leaders indicated that some leaders were more keen to cut the isolation period to five days than others.
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