Lockdown in NSW
She should have put Sydney in Lock down three weeks ago.
Also people that work with Homes for the elderly should have had their Jab months ago.
A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw (pictured left) has questioned the Prime Minister over Australia's current vaccination rate - with Scott Morrison responding by claiming 30,000 lives have been saved across the nation during the pandemic. Morrison (pictured right) then dismissed talk of a 100 per cent vaccination target in Australia and stated the government's focus since 2020 has been saving lives and jobs.
'Other countries are moving forward with opening up because they have had millions of people who have actually contracted the virus and there is more antibodies in that population," he said.
'Globally speaking, we have a low rate of deaths in this country, and that has been a state and federal level focus.
'We have also seen our economy recognised as one of the best performing in the world. During this pandemic we have created jobs and seen less deaths... we have delivered that as a government.
'Our main focus is saving lives and saving livelihoods.'
The prime minister told Grimshaw, 'We've saved 30,000 lives here in Australia.'
In NSW on Friday, 44 new cases of Covid were recorded, including 27 people who were infectious in the community. It is the highest number of daily infections in the state since the pandemic's first wave in early 2020.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has suggested the lockdown could again be extended beyond July 16, as restrictions for residents in Greater Sydney were further tightened at 5pm on Friday.
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NSW Health has added even more exposure sites to its growing list overnight as Sydney battles through its strict Covid lockdown. In worrying developments, two medical centres have been swept up in the alerts, as well as a Coles supermarket and KFC outlet where patrons could have been exposed to the virus for more than 21 hours spread over four periods that date all the way back to July 2.
Sydney plunges deeper into lockdown
Sydney plunges deeper into lockdown (msn.com)
Greater Sydney faces at least two more weeks of lockdown, after 97 new cases of locally acquired cases were reported.
Of those, 24 cases were infectious while in the community. That is the key number Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she needs "as close to zero as possible" before there is any hope of ending the lockdown.
Ms Berejiklian said home learning for hundreds of thousands of school children would continue for at least another two weeks, while warning she had no "crystal ball".
The premier also said government mobility data, which was being used to calculate likely lockdown periods, showed too much movement was occurring in the Canterbury Bankstown and Liverpool areas.
The 102-year-old message to Sydneysiders that's frighteningly relevant today: Government's plea to residents to beat Spanish flu shows pandemics change but people don't
When the 1919 Spanish Influenza ravaged Australia, the NSW government of the day gave residents eerily similar warnings to what Sydneysiders are currently experiencing. A flyer from February 1919 warns citizens that a 'greater danger than war' was bearing down on the state and pleaded with people to wear masks and obey restrictions in instructions echoed almost exactly by Gladys Berejiklian in recent weeks.