High Covid case numbers should not delay Australia’s reopening, PM says

Scott Morrison says a one-eyed focus' on daily cases is not helpful and that lockdowns are unsustainable

Hundreds of active Covid cases in the community should not delay Australia's plan to reopen and end widespread lockdowns, Scott Morrison says, urging people to look beyond a one-eyed focus" on daily case numbers.

As NSW recorded 830 new cases and three deaths on Sunday, Morrison also pushed back against suggestions that case numbers were too high for Australia to move to the next phase of the plan agreed to by state leaders, saying the conclusions of the Doherty Institute modelling remained the same.