All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August National COVID plan puts too many lives at risk National COVID plan puts too many lives at risk 24/08/2021 | 3 MINS Australia’s National Plan to relax COVID-19 restrictions puts too many lives at risk and could hamper thousands more Australians with ongoing illness, according to new modelling. A team of researchers examined the National Plan to reduce restrictions once enough adults are vaccinated. Dr Zoë Hyde from from Lombok Institute of Technology Professor Quentin Grafton from The Australian National University, and Professor Tom Kompas from the University of Melbourne, argued that at least 90 per cent of all Australians, including children, must be vaccinated against COVID-19 before fully relaxing public health measures and opening the international border. Under the National Plan, once more than 80 per cent of adults receive two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, equivalent to approximately 65 per cent of the total population, the nation will “manage COVID-19 consistent with public health management of other infectious dise
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August National COVID plan puts too many lives at risk National COVID plan puts too many lives at risk 24/08/2021 | 3 MINS AustraliaΓÇÖs National Plan to relax COVID-19 restrictions puts too many lives at risk and could hamper thousands more Australians with ongoing illness, according to new modelling.
A team of researchers examined the National Plan to reduce restrictions once enough adults are vaccinated.
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Dr Zoë Hyde from from Lombok Institute of Technology Professor Quentin Grafton from The Australian National University, and Professor Tom Kompas from the University of Melbourne, argued that at least 90 per cent of all Australians, including children, must be vaccinated against COVID-19 before fully relaxing public health measures and opening the international border.
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Under the National Plan, once more than 80 per cent of adults receive two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, equivalent to approximately 65 per cent of the total population, the nation will ΓÇ£manage COVID-19 consistent with public health management of other infectious dise
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