'I think what I've taken away from discussions with Victorian colleagues is that they are more than prepared to look at the timelines and revisit them.' COVID19 9News
The 'gold standard' of contact tracing explained
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has taken aim at Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews over his roadmap plan out of lockdown. "When we say gold standard, what we're really referring to is the shortest time possible between a person getting symptoms and the whole contact tracing process being wound up, the case being closed.
It comes after Mr Morrison took a swipe at Victoria for the thresholds in Mr Andrews' plan, saying under the same requirements NSW — which has largely kept on top of its COVID-19 outbreaks — would also be in lockdown.The DCMO says Australian health authorities won't be able to tell the country who will get any future COVID-19 vaccine first until a certain number of immunisation characteristics are known about the drug.
"It depends of course on when the vaccine becomes available, how much of it we have and how effective the vaccine is, then well make sure that we explain it very clearly to the Australian public what the priority is based on."
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