Mr Butler said while the number of cases and hospital admissions are dropping in some states, the numbers are still very large.
Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said it is unclear if the number of COVID-19 cases is trending downwards.Federal Health Minister Mark Butler admits it's still too early to tell if the peak of the recent COVID-19 wave has passed, following a slight downturn in case numbers.
"We are not calling [the end of the peak] yet, there is what we have seen through the pandemic something of a school holiday effect where transmission appears to dip off," he told the Nine Network."It does seem cases are dropping off in some states, and hospital numbers have dropped off in the last couple of weeks, they're still very large.
"We will be one of the first countries in the world ... to secure this brand-new vaccine and start rolling them out in September to give protection to some of our youngest and most vulnerable kids," he said.
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