NSW reports 415 new Covid cases and four deaths amid warning vaccination ‘not a silver bullet’
by Luke Henriques-Gomes from on (#5NBK3)
Chief health officer says residents need to follow public health orders for lockdown to end as NSW wakes up to statewide restrictions
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The New South Wales chief health officer, Kerry Chant, has warned the state's lockdown will not end unless residents follow strengthened public health orders, and that vaccination was part of the solution" and a not a silver bullet".
Australia's largest state woke up under a statewide lockdown on Sunday, while the federal government pledged half of the one million additional Pfizer doses it has secured from Poland will be directed into high-risk parts of Sydney.
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