Inside Australia's COVID-19 divide as the states haggle over the future of isolation | Dana_Adele
Victoria’s chief health officer has warned against ending mandatory COVID-19 isolation as NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet pushes for the restriction to be scrapped, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refuses to release the advice behind reducing the period.
He pointed to evidence “from multiple overseas jurisdictions” showing that the ending of public health measures was “associated with significantly higher COVID-19 infections, hospitalisations and deaths”.the pandemic bill passed in December“It is acknowledged that the pandemic declaration and its public health requirements cannot be extended indefinitely,” Sutton wrote, while recommending it be extended until October.
“I believe we need to move away from public health orders, we need to move ... to a system in which we’ll respect each other – if you’re sick, you stay at home, if you’re not sick go to work,” the NSW premier told Sky News on Friday. Sutton said voluntary uptake of isolation “is likely to be limited” and pointed to a survey commissioned by the Victorian government in July that suggested compliance had fallen sharply since February.A separate survey in August found almost a quarter of respondents were unaware of the current case isolation requirements and only a third of respondents who did isolate for seven days would have isolated for this duration if it were no longer mandated, he wrote.
Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley also called for the health advice to be published, noting that Albanese had promised to be more transparent about national cabinet.
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