Morrison’s article comes when Sydney, Australia’s largest city, reported 830 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest number of new daily infections to date, despite being closed since the end. June.
Australia has been one of the countries, including China and New Zealand, that have tried to completely eradicate Covid-19 within its borders and until recently the strategy had been very successful. So far, Australia has seen only 44,026 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 981 deaths.
But several major Australian cities, including Sydney, Melbourne and the capital Canberra, are closed as authorities struggle to contain an outbreak of the Covid-19 Delta variant.
“(Blockages) are sadly needed for now, and we will continue to provide health and income support to get people through, but they won’t be needed for too long,” he said.
Morrison said the Australian government intended to change its approach from reducing the number of cases to examining how many people were seriously ill with Covid-19 and needed hospitalization.
“After all, this is how we manage all other infectious diseases,” said the Australian leader, who added that the country’s public health system was now strong enough to cope with an increase in coronavirus cases.
Although Morrison did not give a strict timeline for when the new strategy would be implemented, he said that once Australia met the national vaccination targets of 70% and 80% t “we can begin to claim what Covid has given us. deleting state “.
“That’s what coexists with Covid. The numbers are likely to increase when we soon start to open up. That’s inevitable,” he said.
“The number one principle will remain … maintaining our elimination strategy to eliminate the virus, so that we can keep our gains hard and keep our options open,” he said at the time.