Lead epidemiologist calls for RATs to be available in school settings
Meanwhile, Prime Minster Scott Morrison is set to meet with industry chiefs on Wednesday to discuss furloughed staffing amid escalating Covid cases.
“You have two choices here. You can push through, or you can lock down. We’re for pushing through,” Mr Morrison said on Monday.
But not everyone is content to simply 'push through'.
“We’re now in the third year of this pandemic and Scott Morrison still thinks that it isn’t a race,” opposition leader Anthony Albanese said.
“He still thinks that you can have a distinction between health outcomes and economic outcomes,"
“What we know is that if you don’t get the health outcomes right, the adverse impact on the economy will be stronger," he said.
“We’re seeing that with workers unable to attend work, with businesses which are closing, or which are temporarily unable to open in the hours in which they want.”
- Mr Albanese
More to come.
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