Vaccination the only way out of ‘indefinite’ Sydney lockdown
Vaccination the only way out of ‘indefinite’ Sydney lockdown
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With infection numbers in Sydney refusing to budge, the head of Australia’s top medical body has warned that the NSW capital could be facing an “indefinite” lockdown — with only one clear pathway out.

President of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), Omar Khorshid, said the city was looking at living with restrictions for the “foreseeable future until everyone is vaccinated”, urging Sydneysiders to obey health orders.

“Of course, we don’t have enough vaccines to vaccinate the whole of Sydney communities so the only option is to get on top of this virus right now,” Dr Khorshid said.

“Vaccines are doing their job, we know they are doing their job and we are seeing a number of young people in hospital in ICU, rather than the huge numbers of older people we saw in Victoria.

“That is a sign that the vaccines are working. Vaccines are our way out of this in the longer term but for right now, for today in Sydney, the only way to stop this virus spreading is to stop people talking to each other, people coming close to each other, people breathing on each other, coughing on each other.

“We know this from the lessons we have learned throughout the lockdown, throughout the pandemic and our only option is to do what needs to be done right now here in Sydney.”

Adviser to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Covid-19 response and UNSW epidemiologist, Mary-Louise McLaws, had a similarly grim warning about the length of Sydney’s lockdown — currently pegged to end next Friday, July 30.

 

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