Yvette D'Ath says it is important for people to remember that COVID-19 is still having an impact on communities, with more than 600 Queenslanders currently in hospital with the disease.
"There's something we can do to at least ease the burden on our health workers who are daily dealing with these COVID deaths and that is getting vaccinated and encouraging our loved ones to get vaccinated."We're going to be living with COVID for a very long time in society, so we do need to move to a more business as usual and that means people taking their own responsibility.
"I can say that nationally, there is increasing pressure, there is a school of thought that we should be mandating masks again," he said. Dr Gerrard told the ABC on Saturday that "we are continually reviewing all aspects of our pandemic response including the potential need for mask mandates in different settings".Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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