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New Covid variant is probably inevitable in northern winter, says Monique Ryan

The independent MP for Kooyong, Dr Monique Ryan, says we need to rejig" how we are dealing with Covid.

I think we need greater transparency about the federal and state government's approach to Covid and their plans for what is probably an inevitable new variant emerging over the northern winter.

I think workplaces and schools and aged care childcare facilities lack clarity about what the plan is for the inevitable next outbreaks of Covid and there's a lot of uncertainty and anxiety about the fact that the government seems to have been winding back the mitigation strategies, whether we're talking about mask-wearing, social isolation, quarantine, without really a plan for how this is going to affect people going forward.