With about 4500 Australians in hospital with COVID-19 and the country on track for 10,000 deaths, politicians and health experts are asking: where to from here?
Health Department officials have been instructed to enter into negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to ensure the earliest possible access to omicron-specific vaccines that are undergoing development and approval processes overseas. Butler wants every weapon possible to fight the long pandemic tail.
Thomas spoke to business leaders about optional mask use, and made one of the first major splits with health advice by an Australian government during the pandemic. Only 42 per cent of respondents said it was acceptable to have fewer than 100 deaths a year, while 31 per cent said an acceptable death rate was between 100 and 1000 deaths. More than half of respondents to the poll said we need to treat COVID-19 similar to the flu and pursue a normal life despite the pandemic.
“Anthony Albanese said he would take responsibility and he would leave no one behind,” she told morning TV. “He’s failed both those tests.
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