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pandemic leave payments were available for people forced to isolate or care for someone with COVID-19.
The scheme ended two weeks ago, but there are growing calls for it to be reinstated amid the increase in COVID-19 cases nationwide., who is a practising paediatrician, said the payment should be restored and people in his community would suffer without it. "It's going to put a lot of pressure on people to go to work when they are not well and it will increase the spread of the variants, putting pressure on hospital systems that are already overloaded.""If you are a casual worker and you must spend seven days in isolation, you may not have access to any funds at all."said even though the payments were ended by her government, the current government should reinstate it.
"[The leave payment] is there for people who just don't have finances to fall back on, and as we walked to the studio today, past the people who clean the train stations, who set up the coffee shops, $750 is a lifeline for them.
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