In a meeting with Solomon Islands leader Manasseh Sogavare, PM says he made it clear what Australia’s interests are
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Wells says the percentages of outbreaks in aged care homes are down from the 2021 outbreak in Victoria but “let’s not shy away from” the high numbers.
Asked about the percentage of aged care home residents have a fourth Covid vaccine shot she said there has been a 15% rise in vaccination rates with higher than the national average given their fourth jab.
I think we should all be listening to health advice.
We’ll continue to take advice. We inherited those decisions and we inherited those decisions and we inherited a trillion dollars of debt. So, we’ll continue to take advice and monitor what’s going on. That’s the position that the government has.
What we need to do is to work with state and territory governments. We’ll take the health advice as well. There’s been no rejection of any health advice by my government that we’ve received from the experts, from the AHPC. What we’ve done is to accept the advice, for example, on vaccinations and that’s why we’ve made that change.