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16 March 2021
Leading Australian health practitioners, including former chief medical officers, have called on the Morrison government to prepare a new ‘National Strategy on Climate Change, Health and Well-being’, saying governments should listen to health experts, just as they did for the Covid-19 pandemic.
A group of 30 health professionals gathered at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday to issue the joint call to the Morrison government, saying that climate change represented an “urgent” health emergency that required a coordinated response.
Among the health professionals who travelled to Canberra were two former state chief health officers, whose currently serving contemporaries have played a central role in guiding the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
And so we shall leave it there for today. Here’s what went down today:
Prime minister
Christian Porter in parliament today, saying he wants to “draw a line under the matter”.
The PM also said Porter will “not perform certain functions” of attorney general on his return to work at the end of March.
Australia’s chief medical officer,
Prof Paul Kelly, has stood by the AstraZeneca vaccine, saying he was “absolutely” confident in it.
Nine has followed
There were
no new community Covid cases reported in NSW, after a single case was recorded yesterday. There were also no community cases reported across the country.
Several European countries, including Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands and Ireland, have temporarily suspended the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine following concerns about deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and blood clotting. Meanwhile, Italy, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg and Lithuania have stopped inoculations from one particular batch of 1m doses that was sent to 17 countries. Vaccination programs with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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