Victoria Covid update: Melbourne lockdown to end on Friday as state reaches 70% vaccination rate
Premier Daniel Andrews says it’s ‘absolutely amazing’ Victoria is so closely aligned to NSW when it comes to vaccination rates and reopening
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Premier Daniel Andrews says it’s ‘absolutely amazing’ Victoria is so closely aligned to NSW when it comes to vaccination rates and reopening
Molnupiravir has been shown to prevent serious illness and death, although it is still in late stage clinical trials
Premier offers harsh criticism for people breaking Covid restrictions, saying their actions ‘will keep us all locked down for longer than we should be. I’m angry, we’re all angry’
Foley said the state government’s decision to isolate the secondary contacts of primary close contacts of Covid-19 cases was paying off, with half of the new infections reported on Wednesday being household contacts of primary close contacts. Over 18,000 primary close contacts and over 10,000 secondary close contacts are currently isolating across the state. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning “If Victoria wasn’t managing those secondary close contacts as tightly as we are now, the advice that we have is that this virus would have got b...
No new cases of coronavirus were detected in NSW or Queensland on Friday