The vaccination program is going as fast as it possibly can, but we are still two to three months’ away from the level of community protection that mass vaccination provides. And what we have seen in our own outbreak and what’s playing out around Australia and around the world is just how quickly one positive case turns into hundreds and then thousands in a community.
Particularly when that community is still largely unvaccinated.
And even though we are leading the nation at the moment, we still have more people unvaccinated, as not fully protected by two doses that have been in their arms for at least three weeks past the jab date, and so this remains our number one priority over the coming months to get more people vaccinated more quickly.
Now, today’s case update together with the data that we have from the last 13 days, regrettably means that we are not in a…
