PM dismisses need for more measures to limit Covid deaths, suggesting Australians dying with, not of, the virus
by Paul Karp from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZBRH)
Scott Morrison says Australia is now living with Covid' as nation records one of the highest transmission rates in the world
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Scott Morrison brushed off the need for further measures to curtail Australia's ongoing high rates of Covid-19 transmission and deaths, and suggested many Australians are dying with, not of, Covid.
Morrison told reporters on Wednesday medical advice does not currently support a fourth Covid vaccine for the general population and asserted, without evidence, that Labor under Anthony Albanese may return to lockdowns to combat Covid.
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