On Tuesday, the Australasian Virology Society confirmed to
The Age and
The Sydney Morning Herald that it supported an immediate pause in plans to roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine until research proved it was effective enough to achieve herd immunity.
But following a furious internal debate, the president of the virology society contacted
The Age and the
Herald late on Tuesday evening to say it had changed its position and no longer opposed the rollout of the vaccine.
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When asked why the society was changing its official position at the last moment, its president, Professor Gilda Tachedjian, said: “That’s for us to know and you to find out.
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The Coate inquiry into hotel quarantine identified deep cultural problems in the Victorian government which were at odds with the principles of the Westminster system, prompting calls from experts for an external review of the state s troubled Health Department.
Former judge Jennifer Coate, in her final report into the hotel quarantine debacle, delivered a brutal assessment of the department, which she said had refused to accept accountability for the program s operation and had maintained a dispute with the Jobs Department over who was running it.
Daniel Andrews approaches the media after the release of the Coate report.
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The man who arrived from America had permission to travel to Melbourne under the exemption scheme to see a family member in palliative care. He had received a negative test at Sydney airport before flying to Tullamarine, but still should have gone directly into hotel quarantine, which was at the time taking travellers with exemptions and Melbourne people unable to quarantine at home.
However, he was not greeted at the airport by a government official and taken to a hotel. A state government spokeswoman has confirmed that officials did not have his flight details, so they were unaware of his arrival.