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Epidemiologists have demanded a national approach to contain the highly transmissible Delta variant as they warn more infectious types of COVID-19 emerging overseas will continue to “punch holes in every deficiency” of the country’s pandemic response.
As infectious disease experts around Australia implored NSW to immediately enforce stage-four restrictions to contain a rapidly growing outbreak of the Delta variant, epidemiologists said our reliance on states responding to outbreaks independently was putting the entire country at risk.
Melburnians wearing masks around South Melbourne Market in June.
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The head of the epidemiological modelling unit at Monash University, James Trauer, said the emergence of the Delta variant in Australia and the worrying situation unfolding in NSW, where 112 new cases were reported on Monday, showed “just how enormous the holes are in our national approach”.
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