Thursday: More than 1 million over-70s in NSW and Victoria remain unvaccinated. Plus: Australia chases more Olympic gold
Good morning. Australia’s vaccine rollout still leaves many elderly people behind, a golden day in and on the water at the Tokyo Olympics, and Melbourne’s Victorian Pride Centre has finally opened its doors. Those stories, and more in Thursday’s morning mail.
More than 1 million people over 70 in NSW and Victoria remain partially or fully unvaccinated, with the nation’s two most populous states badly lagging most other states or territories. Scott Morrison has heralded vaccine take-up as like a “gold medal run”, stating that “by Christmas”, “everyone who’s had the opportunity for a vaccine will have had it”. Australia remains last in the OECD by rates of vaccination, with just 14% of people fully vaccinated. Hundreds of thousands of Sydney-based welfare recipients will receive support for lost income in news that has come as welcome relief to many, after Gladys Berejiklian’s announcement of a four-week lockdown extension across greater Sydney. The state recorded 177 new infections on Wednesday, with the number of active cases also increasing in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/29/morning-mail-vaccine-rollout-fails-elderly-tokyo-glory-a-centre-of-pride
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