Australia Covid live update: Queensland, WA and NT await decision on lockdown lifting as national cabinet meets

Australia Covid live update: Queensland, WA and NT await decision on lockdown lifting as national cabinet meets

10.24pm BST22:24 AAP has a bit more of prime minister Scott Morrison’s comments regarding national cabinet goals today, and reports the prime minister emerged from his 14-day quarantine yesterday, following his trip to the UK for the G7. “It’s time to start laying it out for the Australian public,” he told the Australian on Friday. … Read more

Australia Covid live update: we are ‘back of the queue’ for Pfizer Covid vaccines, finance minister admits

Australia Covid live update: we are ‘back of the queue’ for Pfizer Covid vaccines, finance minister admits

Atagi’s view is they should have Pfizer rather than AstraZeneca. The question is do we have sufficient Pfizer to protect people in time so that they don’t get Covid which would be far worse than having an AstraZeneca vaccine. It is not a question of should it be AstraZeneca or Pfizer. We don’t have sufficient … Read more

Australia Covid live update: NSW on alert; Queensland urgently traces case infectious in community for 10 days

Australia Covid live update: NSW on alert; Queensland urgently traces case infectious in community for 10 days

One of the criticisms that the AMA does agree with of the government’s rollout of the vaccine is that the messaging has really been mixed and I think Australians don’t know which way is up when it comes to the vaccine program. We would really like to see some money being put into positive advertising … Read more