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The last time the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee – the panel of chief health officers that has steered the country through COVID-19 – met face-to-face was almost exactly a year ago in February 2020 to hammer out a plan for dealing with the looming pandemic.
Soon, the states’ top doctors will meet in person again, most likely in Canberra, to detail the next phase: the planned six-month rollout of multiple COVID-19 vaccines and “what that will mean in terms of how we handle outbreaks”.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
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Certainty is something Australians crave after a year of restrictions, snap lockdowns and border closures that have varied wildly between states and haven’t always appealed to common sense.
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