New South Wales must continue lockdowns until the virus is eliminated , the president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has said.
Dr Omar Khorshid issued a strong warning to NSW, urging leaders to stick to their guns or risk disaster . There s no alternative to elimination, he said, given nowhere in the world has any community been able to live with Delta without very significant levels of vaccination .
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Dr Omar Khorshid has said there is no alternative except for NSW to eliminate COVID-19.(Tony McDonough) We would be talking about long-term significant restrictions on people s movements from going in and out of lockdown, hospitals filling up with extremely sick people, and a devastating economic impact, not just on NSW but the rest of the country, he said.
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