NSW records 485 new cases and two deaths; wait time to receive Covid-19 vaccine booster shot cut from six months to five, federal government announces
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You may be wondering why Australia would consider shortening the wait time for Covid-19 booster shots.
It’s early days, but the data around the Omicron variant so far shows that two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine offers less defence against symptomatic infections from the Omicron variant, compared with Delta.
We’re seeing, you know, 200 or 300 cases a day in New South Wales at the moment, the hospital rate is manageable and mortality rate very low. So we have to keep a mindful eye on what’s happening into the future, encourage people to get the vaccination and in particular now, the booster. I had mine last week, and if we do that, then we can get back to, you know, a life as normal as possible and people can reunite with their families over Christmas without the fear of being locked down or having to do two weeks before they arrive or two weeks after they get back to their home state.
We want Australia to get on with it, and having travelled overseas only a few weeks ago, that’s exactly what’s happening in other parts of the world. We need to accept that we’ve got one of the best health systems in the world, the ability to deal with it and to deal with it sensibly.
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