Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Australians will be able to freely travel overseas when 80% of the population is vaccinated, Morrison says
76 views
Skip to first unread message
Michael Ejercito
Jul 30, 2021, 9:41:03 AM7/30/21
to
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/30/australians-will-be-able-to-freely-travel-overseas-when-80-of-the-population-is-vaccinated-morrison-says
Australians will be able to freely travel overseas when 80% of the
population is vaccinated, Morrison says
But there’s no indication when that target may be met in the updated
national pandemic exit plan released on Friday
Explainer: What you need to know about the four-phase roadmap out of Covid
Planes at Sydney airport
Qantas planes parked at Sydney airport in December 2020. Phase C of the
national pandemic exit plan will see all restrictions lifted on outbound
travel for vaccinated Australians. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
Daniel Hurst
@danielhurstbne
Fri 30 Jul 2021 06.34 EDT
Vaccinated Australians will be able to head overseas again to visit
family and friends when 80% of the adult population is fully vaccinated
under a national pandemic exit plan, the prime minister says.
But there’s no target date for when that might happen and one premier
has already suggested they might not follow the revamped roadmap agreed
to by state and territory leaders on Friday.
The country is currently in phase A. Lockdowns will be “less likely”
under phase B which will be triggered when 70% of the adult population
has been vaccinated against Covid. That could happen by the end of 2021,
Scott Morrison said, “but that is entirely up to how the nation responds
to this challenge we’re setting for ourselves”.
Australian troops on their way to an emergency deployment
Troops enforcing western Sydney lockdown will alienate community,
advocates warn
Read more
Morrison revealed the triggers to move to the next two phases – the 70%
and 80% vaccination rates – after Friday afternoon’s national cabinet.
Advertisement
‘We went from heroes to zeroes’: US nurses strike over work conditions
However, in a sign of continuing tensions in the federation, the West
Australian premier, Mark McGowan, later told reporters his state
“reserves the right to lock down” even after that 70% adult vaccination
target was reached.
Morrison conceded states and territories retained the power to take a
more cautious approach.
He also conceded invoking short, sharp lockdowns at the very early
stages of an outbreak was currently the best health and economic
response to the highly infectious Delta variant – an approach that has
been favoured by many states and territories.
But Morrison stopped short of expressing regret for his past comments
applauding the New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, for
resisting a hard lockdown when Delta case numbers were rising in Sydney
in June.
“We all humbly learn from these things and we make the adjustments and
get on with it,” Morrison said.
Phase A: vaccinate, prepare and pilot
Addressing reporters outside the Lodge in Canberra, Morrison said he and
state and territory leaders had reached in-principle agreement on an
updated version of the four-stage opening up plan.
Australia remains in phase A, called “vaccinate, prepare and pilot”, in
which the aim is to strongly suppress the virus for the purpose of
minimising community transmission. That includes ramping up vaccination
rates and deploying “early, stringent and short lockdowns if outbreaks
occur”.
At present, just 18% of Australians aged 16 and over have received two
vaccine doses.
Advertisement
Phase B: vaccine target 70%
The planned benchmark, based on yet-to-be-released modelling by the
Doherty Institute, for moving to phase B of the plan is when 70% of the
eligible population (those aged 16 and over) have received both doses of
a Covid vaccine.
Morrison said the plan allowed for individual states and territories to
move into the next phase at slightly different times. First, the entire
nation would need to reach the 70% target overall, and then the state or
territory in question would move into the phase when it individually
achieved the same target.
“So, it is like a two-key process,” Morrison said.
Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia
every morning
Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning
He said he hoped Australia could move to phase B – called the
“vaccination transition phase” – by the end of 2021. That phase aims to
minimise serious illness, hospitalisation and fatality as a result of
Covid-19 “with low-level restrictions”.
Under phase B, lockdowns would be “less likely” but still “possible”. It
would include an easing of restrictions on vaccinated residents, with
those details yet to be decided.
Inbound passenger arrival caps would return to their previous levels for
unvaccinated returning travellers, and then on top of that, there would
be additional capacity for vaccinated returning travellers.
Phase C: vaccine target 80%
The planned trigger for moving to phase C is more than 80% of over-16s
having received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Then, leaders would
only ever pursue “highly targeted lockdowns”.
Phase C would also see vaccinated residents being exempted from all
domestic restrictions, the abolition of caps on vaccinated Australians
returning from overseas, and the lifting of all restrictions on outbound
travel for vaccinated Australians.
Morrison didn’t reveal when this was likely to occur.
Final phase: target not yet determined
Advertisement
Leaders have not yet set a trigger point for the final phase – when
restrictions would be loosened even more – because, they said, it was
too soon to assess the situation.
When asked whether there was anything stopping individual states from
taking a more conservative approach and delaying moving to the next
phase once they reached the specified triggers, Morrison said the
residents in those jurisdictions “would be very disappointed if they
were held back along those lines”.
“There was certainly a good consensus today that this has to be a
national plan and that we had to move together, hence why we took the
decision that the whole country has to get there on average first before
any individual state can move into that next phase,” the prime minister
said.
Drawing a comparison with the United Kingdom, he added: “This is not
about freedom days and things like that. We’ve always been in Australia
taking our own path to this. We have made our own Australian way through
this.”
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian
Sydney public hospitals postpone some elective surgery after NSW records
170 Covid cases
Read more
Morrison declined to say whether he envisaged losing the next election,
due by mid-2022, if Australia was unable to reach the 70% target, saying
he did not intend to respond to that part of the question. But he said
he believed “we can get there by the end of the year to 70%”.
He said he had been “greatly encouraged” by the increased take-up of the
AstraZeneca vaccine.
Earlier on Friday, the defence minister, Peter Dutton, made a direct
appeal to people across Australia not to wait for the Pfizer vaccine,
saying the Delta variant “can spread very quickly” and “you only need
one or two super-spreader events before you lose control of this thing”.
Dutton implored people not to listen to “some of the rubbish online and
to the extremists in this debate” who promoted hesitancy about
AstraZeneca. “AstraZeneca is safe and people should have that vaccine as
quickly as possible,” Dutton said.
Labor’s health spokesperson, Mark Butler, had previously said it would
be “an utter disgrace” if Morrison did not release the Doherty
Institute’s modelling after Friday’s national cabinet meeting.
Quick Guide
How to get the latest news from Guardian Australia
Show
At a Senate Covid committee hearing on Friday, officials revealed there
were currently 1,279 returned travellers staying at the Howard Springs
quarantine facility in the Northern Territory, well short of the maximum
capacity of 2,000.
Advertisement
The number is likely to ramp up in August, when 18 facilitated flights
are due to arrive, including two Australian Olympic Committee-organised
flights that will bring about 360 passengers who are part of the
Australian Olympic team.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says there are currently 38,523
Australians registered as seeking to return home from overseas, but it
notes that includes 6,039 who reported not wishing to come back until at
least October.
The 38,523 figure includes 4,569 people who are considered to be vulnerable.
In Indonesia – which recorded a record 2,069 Covid deaths on Tuesday –
about 780 Australians are registered as wishing to return home. The
Australian government hopes to arrange a facilitated flight to carry
people from Denpasar to Howard Springs on 18 August.
You've read 23 articles in the last year
Article count
on
… we have a small favour to ask. Tens of millions have placed their
trust in the Guardian’s high-impact journalism since we started
publishing 200 years ago, turning to us in moments of crisis,
uncertainty, solidarity and hope. More than 1.5 million readers, from
180 countries, have recently taken the step to support us financially –
keeping us open to all, and fiercely independent.
With no shareholders or billionaire owner, we can set our own agenda and
provide trustworthy journalism that’s free from commercial and political
influence, offering a counterweight to the spread of misinformation.
When it’s never mattered more, we can investigate and challenge without
fear or favour.
Unlike many others, Guardian journalism is available for everyone to
read, regardless of what they can afford to pay. We do this because we
believe in information equality. Greater numbers of people can keep
track of global events, understand their impact on people and
communities, and become inspired to take meaningful action.
We aim to offer readers a comprehensive, international perspective on
critical events shaping our world – from the Black Lives Matter
movement, to the new American administration, Brexit, and the world's
slow emergence from a global pandemic. We are committed to upholding our
reputation for urgent, powerful reporting on the climate emergency, and
made the decision to reject advertising from fossil fuel companies,
divest from the oil and gas industries, and set a course to achieve net
zero emissions by 2030.
If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution,
however big or small, powers our journalism and sustains our future.
Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – it only takes a minute.
Thank you.
--
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
https://www.avg.com
Australians will be able to freely travel overseas when 80% of the
population is vaccinated, Morrison says
But there’s no indication when that target may be met in the updated
national pandemic exit plan released on Friday
Explainer: What you need to know about the four-phase roadmap out of Covid
Planes at Sydney airport
Qantas planes parked at Sydney airport in December 2020. Phase C of the
national pandemic exit plan will see all restrictions lifted on outbound
travel for vaccinated Australians. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
Daniel Hurst
@danielhurstbne
Fri 30 Jul 2021 06.34 EDT
Vaccinated Australians will be able to head overseas again to visit
family and friends when 80% of the adult population is fully vaccinated
under a national pandemic exit plan, the prime minister says.
But there’s no target date for when that might happen and one premier
has already suggested they might not follow the revamped roadmap agreed
to by state and territory leaders on Friday.
The country is currently in phase A. Lockdowns will be “less likely”
under phase B which will be triggered when 70% of the adult population
has been vaccinated against Covid. That could happen by the end of 2021,
Scott Morrison said, “but that is entirely up to how the nation responds
to this challenge we’re setting for ourselves”.
Australian troops on their way to an emergency deployment
Troops enforcing western Sydney lockdown will alienate community,
advocates warn
Read more
Morrison revealed the triggers to move to the next two phases – the 70%
and 80% vaccination rates – after Friday afternoon’s national cabinet.
Advertisement
‘We went from heroes to zeroes’: US nurses strike over work conditions
However, in a sign of continuing tensions in the federation, the West
Australian premier, Mark McGowan, later told reporters his state
“reserves the right to lock down” even after that 70% adult vaccination
target was reached.
Morrison conceded states and territories retained the power to take a
more cautious approach.
He also conceded invoking short, sharp lockdowns at the very early
stages of an outbreak was currently the best health and economic
response to the highly infectious Delta variant – an approach that has
been favoured by many states and territories.
But Morrison stopped short of expressing regret for his past comments
applauding the New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, for
resisting a hard lockdown when Delta case numbers were rising in Sydney
in June.
“We all humbly learn from these things and we make the adjustments and
get on with it,” Morrison said.
Phase A: vaccinate, prepare and pilot
Addressing reporters outside the Lodge in Canberra, Morrison said he and
state and territory leaders had reached in-principle agreement on an
updated version of the four-stage opening up plan.
Australia remains in phase A, called “vaccinate, prepare and pilot”, in
which the aim is to strongly suppress the virus for the purpose of
minimising community transmission. That includes ramping up vaccination
rates and deploying “early, stringent and short lockdowns if outbreaks
occur”.
At present, just 18% of Australians aged 16 and over have received two
vaccine doses.
Advertisement
Phase B: vaccine target 70%
The planned benchmark, based on yet-to-be-released modelling by the
Doherty Institute, for moving to phase B of the plan is when 70% of the
eligible population (those aged 16 and over) have received both doses of
a Covid vaccine.
Morrison said the plan allowed for individual states and territories to
move into the next phase at slightly different times. First, the entire
nation would need to reach the 70% target overall, and then the state or
territory in question would move into the phase when it individually
achieved the same target.
“So, it is like a two-key process,” Morrison said.
Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia
every morning
Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning
He said he hoped Australia could move to phase B – called the
“vaccination transition phase” – by the end of 2021. That phase aims to
minimise serious illness, hospitalisation and fatality as a result of
Covid-19 “with low-level restrictions”.
Under phase B, lockdowns would be “less likely” but still “possible”. It
would include an easing of restrictions on vaccinated residents, with
those details yet to be decided.
Inbound passenger arrival caps would return to their previous levels for
unvaccinated returning travellers, and then on top of that, there would
be additional capacity for vaccinated returning travellers.
Phase C: vaccine target 80%
The planned trigger for moving to phase C is more than 80% of over-16s
having received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Then, leaders would
only ever pursue “highly targeted lockdowns”.
Phase C would also see vaccinated residents being exempted from all
domestic restrictions, the abolition of caps on vaccinated Australians
returning from overseas, and the lifting of all restrictions on outbound
travel for vaccinated Australians.
Morrison didn’t reveal when this was likely to occur.
Final phase: target not yet determined
Advertisement
Leaders have not yet set a trigger point for the final phase – when
restrictions would be loosened even more – because, they said, it was
too soon to assess the situation.
When asked whether there was anything stopping individual states from
taking a more conservative approach and delaying moving to the next
phase once they reached the specified triggers, Morrison said the
residents in those jurisdictions “would be very disappointed if they
were held back along those lines”.
“There was certainly a good consensus today that this has to be a
national plan and that we had to move together, hence why we took the
decision that the whole country has to get there on average first before
any individual state can move into that next phase,” the prime minister
said.
Drawing a comparison with the United Kingdom, he added: “This is not
about freedom days and things like that. We’ve always been in Australia
taking our own path to this. We have made our own Australian way through
this.”
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian
Sydney public hospitals postpone some elective surgery after NSW records
170 Covid cases
Read more
Morrison declined to say whether he envisaged losing the next election,
due by mid-2022, if Australia was unable to reach the 70% target, saying
he did not intend to respond to that part of the question. But he said
he believed “we can get there by the end of the year to 70%”.
He said he had been “greatly encouraged” by the increased take-up of the
AstraZeneca vaccine.
Earlier on Friday, the defence minister, Peter Dutton, made a direct
appeal to people across Australia not to wait for the Pfizer vaccine,
saying the Delta variant “can spread very quickly” and “you only need
one or two super-spreader events before you lose control of this thing”.
Dutton implored people not to listen to “some of the rubbish online and
to the extremists in this debate” who promoted hesitancy about
AstraZeneca. “AstraZeneca is safe and people should have that vaccine as
quickly as possible,” Dutton said.
Labor’s health spokesperson, Mark Butler, had previously said it would
be “an utter disgrace” if Morrison did not release the Doherty
Institute’s modelling after Friday’s national cabinet meeting.
Quick Guide
How to get the latest news from Guardian Australia
Show
At a Senate Covid committee hearing on Friday, officials revealed there
were currently 1,279 returned travellers staying at the Howard Springs
quarantine facility in the Northern Territory, well short of the maximum
capacity of 2,000.
Advertisement
The number is likely to ramp up in August, when 18 facilitated flights
are due to arrive, including two Australian Olympic Committee-organised
flights that will bring about 360 passengers who are part of the
Australian Olympic team.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says there are currently 38,523
Australians registered as seeking to return home from overseas, but it
notes that includes 6,039 who reported not wishing to come back until at
least October.
The 38,523 figure includes 4,569 people who are considered to be vulnerable.
In Indonesia – which recorded a record 2,069 Covid deaths on Tuesday –
about 780 Australians are registered as wishing to return home. The
Australian government hopes to arrange a facilitated flight to carry
people from Denpasar to Howard Springs on 18 August.
You've read 23 articles in the last year
Article count
on
… we have a small favour to ask. Tens of millions have placed their
trust in the Guardian’s high-impact journalism since we started
publishing 200 years ago, turning to us in moments of crisis,
uncertainty, solidarity and hope. More than 1.5 million readers, from
180 countries, have recently taken the step to support us financially –
keeping us open to all, and fiercely independent.
With no shareholders or billionaire owner, we can set our own agenda and
provide trustworthy journalism that’s free from commercial and political
influence, offering a counterweight to the spread of misinformation.
When it’s never mattered more, we can investigate and challenge without
fear or favour.
Unlike many others, Guardian journalism is available for everyone to
read, regardless of what they can afford to pay. We do this because we
believe in information equality. Greater numbers of people can keep
track of global events, understand their impact on people and
communities, and become inspired to take meaningful action.
We aim to offer readers a comprehensive, international perspective on
critical events shaping our world – from the Black Lives Matter
movement, to the new American administration, Brexit, and the world's
slow emergence from a global pandemic. We are committed to upholding our
reputation for urgent, powerful reporting on the climate emergency, and
made the decision to reject advertising from fossil fuel companies,
divest from the oil and gas industries, and set a course to achieve net
zero emissions by 2030.
If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution,
however big or small, powers our journalism and sustains our future.
Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – it only takes a minute.
Thank you.
--
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
https://www.avg.com
HeartDoc Andrew
Jul 30, 2021, 10:23:29 AM7/30/21
to
Denpasar & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Michael Ejercito
Jul 30, 2021, 11:10:29 AM7/30/21
to
Michael
HeartDoc Andrew
Jul 30, 2021, 11:20:40 AM7/30/21
to
MichaelE wrote:
> I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
0 new messages